Common Brushtail Possum Essays

  • Possums In The 21st Century Essay

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    Introduction 1080 poison is a poison used to kill possums as they are seen as a pest. Possums were brought into New Zealand to start a fur industry. The first surviving possums were brought from Australia in 1858 to the South Island. In 1921 it was made illegal to bring possums into New Zealand as there were possums living in 450 parts of New Zealand. By 1946 possums were officially declared a pest. In the 1960s the population of possums were in the South Island with hardly any in the north island

  • Efficacy of Feratox® Cyanide Pellets to Control Introduced Brushtail Possums on Middle Island

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    pellets to control introduced brushtail possums on Middle Island RESEARCH TRIAL PROTOCOL Animal Control Technologies in conjunction with Connovation (NZ) and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) February 2010 COMMERCIAL – IN – CONFIDENCE Not to be published or reproduced without the consent of the authors Table of Contents: 1. Executive Overview 3 1.1 Toxin welfare screening for possums: 4 1.2 Feratox® cyanide pellet possum bait: 5 1.3 Non target impacts:

  • Possum Research Paper

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    Introduction Your in your house at night then you hear a noise kinda like a hiss then you look down and you see a possum staring at you and you jump with fear but no need to fear possums aren't really dangerous there animals that are a part of nature and i tell you some information about the night time critter the possum. What are possums Possums are marsupials (which means they have pouches) that only look for food at night these things live under houses, in trees, and in woods. There

  • Digestion and Metabolism of the Koala

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    Digestion and Metabolism of the Koala Koalas’ diets consist solely of Eucalyptus, which has many defensive mechanisms to deter herbivores. The foliage contains chemicals that are toxic and interfere with digestion, such as condensed and hydrolysable tannins, phenolic compounds, cyanogenic glycosides, and essential oils. The leaves also contain low concentrations of nutrients, making it even more difficult for the extraction of nutrients. In order to obtain the maximum amount of nutrients

  • Phylogenetic Trees: Outgroup Analysis

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    Phylogenetic trees allow us to organize all of life onto a single tree based on a common feature that all of life shares, to understand how things are related. We can also create specialized trees that map the evolutionary history of a specific species, such as mammals or reptiles. There are three features of a phylogenetic tree that must be understood: first, a phylogenetic tree depicts the common ancestry of the species that we are studying, whether it be all of life or just mammals. Second, there