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"Captured on one of Bianca McBryde’s tree-mounted cameras, the brush-tailed
possum crawls into the frame, lowers its head into the nest and bites into the
egg.
The snack was a shop-bought quail’s egg and the nest was artificial – a crafty
construction made of half a tennis ball, some brown paint and fibres from the
husks of coconuts.
But the interaction was a vital clue in the increasingly desperate efforts to
stop Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeater from going extinct.
McBryde wanted to know how often these native possums were likely taking the
eggs of this striking Australian songbird.
The answer was: not very often, but often enough to matter."
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
