The warden at Broome passed on some tantalising information about a researcher from Queensland who was mapping bowerbirds with a GPS in the last year or so. Details are sketchy so I am now ploughing through universities in Queensland trying to find out someone who might know this mystery person. It would be great …
I have been working on a possible exhibition opportunity for a show about the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus. Researching Linnaeus I came across some references to his classing of minerals, fossils and crystals. In this case Linnaeus’s system was never adopted. I am thinking about combining it with the bowerbird’s classification of stones in …
I have organised to do the UWA PAWES course on Thursday and Friday. PAWES stands for Programme in Animal Welfare, Ethics and Science. According to the website it covers things like State and Federal legislative and regulatory requirements, The Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes (7th …
I have been thinking about Tim Low’s winners and losers in The New Nature (2002) and how he devalues those animals and plants that don’t do well in disturbed ecosystems. One of the reasons why I am working with bowerbirds is that I know that they are very adaptable and tolerate disturbance. The bowerbird …