Industry blueprint: Kangaroo
This blueprint serves as a resource for those interested in the kangaroo industry and provides essential fast facts alongside the fundamental themes highlighted in the...
KANGAROO
The Kangaroo Island Tammar Wallaby
48 pages
Published: 1 Mar 1999
Author(s): Wright, Margaret, Stott, Phillip
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This project showed that culling is having a slight effect on the Tammar Wallaby populations on the properties surveyed, and this effect is of benefit to the surviving wallabies because there is a small trend towards lower parasite burdens, higher energy reserves, faster growth rates in adults and increased fertility in males.
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