A chance discovery of an albino bush rat in Victoria’s Otway Ranges inspired a search for more fair beauties. Here’s what the survey of Aussie ecologists, museums and newspaper clippings revealed.
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Researchers are in a race against time to learn about the female-oriented social structures of Australia’s small native rodents and marsupials.
The remaining populations are threatened by a lack of genetic diversity, which makes them less likely to bounce back from new pressures such as climate change.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University
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Research Group Leader & ARC DECRA Fellow, Monash University
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Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University