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OT: Fox bites wallaby

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Subject: OT: Fox bites wallaby
From: "Greg" <>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:16:21 +1100
Hi Andrew,

You are right of course, Foxes do have an extremely broad diet but in areas where Parma Wallabies have survived there are good numbers of Dingoes but no Foxes. One such location is the Gibraltar Range National Park in Northern NSW. I have never seen a Fox there despite them being abundant at lower altitudes nearby. Some years back when the Park was heavily baited for Dingoes and the Dingo population crashed, in came the Foxes. Luckily the Dingo numbers recovered and the Foxes disappeared.

Despite this anecdote some CSIRO forest scientists dismiss the link between Dingoes and Foxes but I suspect that their sampling methodology may have been structured in a way that masked this association, and Dingoes don't always totally exclude Foxes.

It is also interesting that at places like Gibraltar Range National Park, where Dingoes and Parma Wallabies co-exist, the Spotted-tailed Quoll is also common.


Regards

Greg Clancy




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