Kangaroos in Outback Australia

Comparative Ecology and Behavior of Three Coexisting Species

By: Dale R. McCullough, Yvette McCullough

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Paperback | 8 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos in Outback Australia focuses on Yathong Nature Reserve, where three species of kangaroo - red, eastern grey, and western grey overlap and create a unique opportunity for ecological study.

Dale and Yvette McCullough spent fifteen months in Yathong examining the comparative ecology and behaviour of the different species. The McCulloughs used systematic counts, radio telemetry, direct observations, and other techniques to characterise and compare the different species' population sizes, home ranges and movements, activity patterns, habitat selection, feeding behaviour, and social organisation.

The researchers' previous work on the kangaroos' closest ecological counterparts in North America, the white-tailed and the mule deer, serves as a subject for comparison and enlarges the overall scope of the work.

About the Authors

Dale R. McCullough is professor of wildlife biology in the College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. He is an acknowledged expert on North American deer populations.

Yvette McCullough teaches science at Martin Luther King Middle School, Berkeley, California.

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"Contain[s] a number of insightful and testable hypotheses." -- Marco Festa-Bianchet, "Ecoscience"

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