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"If you are exploring our beautiful Australian wilderness this year, keep an
eye out for animals behaving in interesting ways. You never know what you might
see, as our research team discovered.
In 2023, our colleague from Sunshine Coast Council, Elliot Bowerman, took a
two-night trip to New England National Park – its 1,500 metre-high mountain
peaks are some of the loftiest on Australia’s mid-east coast.
On the afternoon of 17 August, Elliot trekked the path to Point Lookout. While
inspecting some plants on the trail, he heard a rustle in the bushes ahead and
peering more closely, saw something of interest. A small mammal had abruptly
appeared, dragging the carcass of another mammal, which it then began to
devour.
At first glance, this was not so strange. Mammals eat each other all the time.
However, it is unusual to see small mammals during the day at such close
quarters, so Elliot recorded the scene, taking a video on his mobile phone.
It was only several days later when looking over the footage that our research
team realised it featured something rarely seen in the wild, the record of
which is now published in the journal
Australian Mammalogy."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
