Sentences with word «tammar»

Dr Ebeling said the team presented tammar wallabies with a choice between white and different yellows, greens, and blues.

«We trained tammar wallabies to respond to different colour stimuli by pressing switches on an automated experimental setup, similar to a poker machine,» Dr Ebeling said.

As well as plenty of bird species you are most likely to see large goannas, rare tammar wallabies, a unique subspecies of echidna, and the Kangaroo Island kangaroo (a shorter version of the western grey kangaroo found on the mainland).

She said behavioural experiments allowed shy and night - active species like the tammar wallaby to participate on their own terms and reveal their perception of colours.

In the last few decades, for example, the bilby has been introduced to Thistle Island, the tammar wallaby to Greenly Island and the banded hare - wallaby to Bernier and Dorre Islands.

There was a big knock - down of foxes and an immediate resurgence of native birds and mammals like the tammar wallaby, the critically endangered brush tailed bettong, or woylie, and the western ground parrot.

There was a big fall in the fox population and an immediate resurgence of native birds and mammals like the tammar wallaby, the critically endangered brush tailed bettong (also known as the woylie) and the western ground parrot.