Research Note
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Unexpected captures of 43 hopping mice in Elliott traps mounted in trees 1.5m from the ground provide evidence of previously unrecorded climbing behaviour in Notomys spp.
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The cosmopolitan estuarine Trochamminita irregularis is recorded for the first time from Western Australia, with only two other Australian records. Its fragmentary global and local distribution patterns are discussed.
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A widespread view that the population arose from snakes released by a showman is challenged by genetic evidence suggesting a remnant population possibly mixed with translocated snakes
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"Drioens" is the slang spelling of the Dutch name for Sumatran durian fruit. In the Perth region in 1697, Vlamingh's men ate poisonous zamia kernels thinking they were drioens.
Critical discussion of paper by John van Wyhe, this volume: Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 103, 89-95.
Wallace is famous for his interactions with Charles Darwin concerning their theories of evolution, and also his exploration in the mid 1800s of South America and the Dutch East Indies.