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2010 Course Handbook

BIOL861: Management of Australian Wildlife

Block teaching sessions: 28-29 August, 9-10 October.

An intensive unit dealing with the management of captive and wild Australian vertebrates. Practical skills are developed including capture, restraint, stress avoidance, sample collection, observation and husbandry of Australian vertebrates. Also includes theoretical issues associated with the topics of conservation, reproduction, nutrition, behaviour, ecology, pathology, genetics and evolution.

Credit Points:4
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When Offered: D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
Staff Contact: Associate Professor Robert Harcourt, Dr David Nipperess, Dr Andrew Allen
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Assessed As: Graded
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Department of Biological Sciences


Faculty of Science