All posts tagged "animals"

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  Technology

  Smart collar to track your pet in real-time

  CSIRO’s Data61, the digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency, announced it is developing a prototype smart pet collar in collaboration...

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  Science

  Devil vaccine research leads to new weapons for fighting disease

  Community support for researchers at the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute for Medical Research and the Tasmanian School of Medicine has led...

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  Scientists invent animal-free testing of lethal neurotoxins

  Animal testing will no longer be required to assess a group of deadly neurotoxins, thanks to University of Queensland-led research.

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  Poo transplants to help save koalas

  Poo transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive habitat loss.

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  The bacteria in koala’s guts drive their food choices

  World-first research, led by Dr Michaela Blyton, now at the University of Queensland, and Dr Ben Moore from Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury...

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  Study shows non-lethal impacts of seabirds’ plastic ingestion

  An Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led study of seabirds that had ingested plastic debris has revealed a range of non-lethal...

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  Birdwatchers highlight declines of seabirds off south-eastern Australia

  Thirteen species of seabirds are declining off the coast of south-eastern Australia, a 17-year study by researchers at the Centre for Ecosystem...

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  Stress and habitat linked to koala recovery

  New research led by Western Sydney University Stress Lab’s Dr Edward Narayan, has found the psychological state of wild koalas and the...

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  Balloons the #1 marine debris risk of mortality for seabirds

  A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris...

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  Thirteen mammal extinctions prevented by havens

  A stocktake of Australia’s animal havens – conservation areas free of cats and foxes – has found that they have already prevented...