Published December 31, 2016
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Lüdecke, C., Fritzsche, D., Dullo, C., Thiede, J., Salewski, C. (2016): Book Reviews. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176: 224-225, DOI: 10.2312/polarforschung.86.1.72, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/polarforschung.86.1.72
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- Carnivores of Australia, past, present and future. edited by A. S. Glen and C. R. Dickman. Collinwood, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. 438 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-6431-0310-8. AU $89.95 / about £49
- This is a 'serious' book, not a coffee table one with lots of colour pictures as on the front cover, but none at all. Instead it is a series of refereed papers by experts in the field, reviewing some of the most important wildlife issues in Australian ecology. 'Carnivores' here include the mammalian Carnivora and flesh-eating marsupials, but also predatory reptiles and birds (although these are of comparatively minor importance). One chapter describes the history of the dingo, now treated as an honorary indigenous species despite its arrival with human assistance. A later one discusses problems of its identification and conservation in the face of extensive hybridisation with domestic dogs (just like the wildcat problem in Scotland). Its status is ambivalent: an introduced problem or an Australian icon to be preserved. But five further chapters discuss later arrivals by human agency (domestic cats and dogs and the fox) whose status is very clear. They involve huge expense in trying to mitigate the ecological havoc they cause. The management of 'owned cats' (i.e. free-ranging pets), feral and stray cats is an issue of more than just Australian interest! Similarly, the lengthy chapter that reviews non-lethal ways of dealing with protecting livestock from predators. Other chapters Downloaded from https : // academic . oup . com /zoolinnean /article / 176/ 1 /224 /2537009 by HEG Geneve user on 27 August 2021