It's really interesting as a New Zealander to travel overseas and see the local mammals, because New Zealand has so few of its own. In fact, the only land mammals which are native to New Zealand are two types of bat, and these bats don't even fly around for people to see - ...
Detection of wild house mice and other small mammals up trees and on the ground in New Zealand native forestBrushtail possumclimbinghouse mouseMus musculusNew ZealandRattus rattusship ratTrichosurus vulpeculaDetermining pest mammal impacts and abundance in forests requires an understanding of how target ...
These non-native animals exploded in number because they had no predators. Birds also lost habitat as forests were cut down for wood and pastures. Within a few hundred years of humans discovering and living in New Zealand, more than half the unique bird species were extinct. The whekau,...
These non-native animals exploded in number because they had no predators. Birds also lost habitat as forests were cut down for wood and pastures.Within a few hundred years of humans' discovering and living in New Zealand, more than half the unique bird species were extinct. The whekau, ...
There are no snakes native to Ireland, not because St. Patrick kicked them out but because they were never there in the first place. They’re also not found in Hawaii, New Zealand, Greenland and Iceland. As cold-blooded animals, they are also scarce in places with harsh winters such ...
“mammals,” and names of the countries in the American continent, along with names of orders and groups of mammals native to the Americas, as detailed in theHandbook of the Mammals of the World[21]. To hone our search, we applied Boolean operators “AND” and “OR,” and followed the...
Shortridge's Native Mouse Australia Small Dorcopsis Papua New Guinea Smoky Mouse Australia Solomons Flying Fox Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands Southern Planigale Australia Spotted-tailed Quoll Australia Tasmanian Devil Australia (Tasmania) Tasmanian Forester Kangaroo Australia (Tasmania) Tasmanian Tiger Aus...
Hardwicke T (1804) Description of a large species of rat, a native of the East Indies. Trans Linn Soc Lond 7:306–308 Google Scholar Hardwicke T (1807) Description of a species of Jerboa found in the upper provinces of Hindustan, between Benares and Hurdwar. Trans Linn Soc Lond 8:279...
Possums consumed the seeds of all adventive and native fruits except P. ferruginea. The proportion of seeds recovered intact from possum faeces varied with plant species and ranged from 6 to 83%. The time required for 50% of all seeds to be passed by possums ranged from 2.5 to 5.5 days...
Urban green area provides refuge for native small mammal biodiversity in a rapidly expanding city in Ghana Article 21 July 2018 Conservation of skinks in New Zealand cities Article Open access 03 July 2023 Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town...