Sentences with word «dunnart»

Whereas «trichromats», like humans and other marsupials such as the fat - tailed dunnart, with one more photoreceptor type in their retinas, could not be confused as easily.

Following development, the common dunnart can not be found.»

But dunnarts on unpredictable diets entered torpor more often and for longer: on average, they were torpid for 270 minutes per day, while those on a restricted spent just over 200 minutes torpid.

Munn and colleagues gave 19 male dunnarts three different diets.

Still, cats ate rodents three times more often than other small, carnivorous mammals known as dasyurids (like dunnarts for example).

The priority list of mammal species requiring protection includes Kangaroo Island dunnart, numbat, eastern barred bandicoot, mountain pygmy - possum, golden bandicoot, eastern bettong, brush - tailed rabbit - rat, mala, western quoll and greater bilby.

Now it seems that it isn't the lack of food but the unpredictability of its supply that triggers torpor — at least as far a small Australian marsupial called the fat - tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is concerned.

As a specific example, Nattrass continued, «Very recently, the common dunnart was recorded in large numbers at Doolandella, where both feral and domestic cats operated in big numbers at night.

There was also no link between food offered on a given day and the dunnart's torpor later the same day, showing that the change was driven by unpredictability, not short - term energy levels, says Munn.

But the fat - tailed dunnart has prospered.

After giving the dunnarts a month to get used to their diet, the team continued the diets for a further 19 days and recorded the length and times of the animals» torpor over this period, using nests installed with temperature sensors and video recorders.

He was educated at University College London and Edinburgh University in Scotland and has studied animal behavior in Britain, Germany, U.S. and Australia in species ranging from pigeons to dunnarts (a mouse - sized marsupial).