Wild Science

Dr Helen P. Waudby is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Gulbali Institute at Charles Sturt University, and a conservation biologist with the NSW Government. She has over 20 years' experience in wildlife research and conservation, and also co-edited the book Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods (CSIRO Publishing, 2022).

Foreword - Ann Jones
Preface
About the editor
Acknowledgements
List of contributors

1: Ngarridjarrkbolknahnan kunred: Looking after Country together in West Arnhem Land - Cara Penton, Terrah Guymala and Warddeken Rangers
2: Avoiding arrest while chasing hedgehogs - Christopher R. Dickman
3: The Big Roo Count: kangaroos, kids and calamity - Euan G. Ritchie
4: In search of a kingdom - Pam Catcheside
5: A leopard at the nursery door - Neil R. Jordan
6: If the gators don't get you, the bugs will - Laura Kojima
7: Raising rays - Leonardo Guida
8: In pursuit of pollinators - Manu E. Saunders
9: Of absences and Amazonia - David M. Watson
10: Caving for spiders - Jessica Marsh
11: Some cockatoos I've met - Erika M. Roper
12: What a botanist can learn from a dog - Laura M. Skates
13: Bears, drugs and guns - Andrew E. Derocher
14: Clever Aotearoa New Zealand birds - Isabel Castro
15: Expect the unexpected when dealing with the devil - David G. Hamilton
16: Outfoxed by a jackal, and other tales from the Indian savanna - Abi T. Vanak
17: Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places - Jodi J. L. Rowley
18: Encounters with mountain gorillas - Wayne Boardman
19: Lazy lions and hungry hyaenas - Robert Heinsohn
20: Don't be a lemming - Jo Isaac
21: Places where a kea's beak shouldn't be - Lydia McLean
22: Coral slime, feisty fish, shark encounters and the importance of looking up - Tracy Ainsworth
23: People are strange: studying nature in cities - Dieter F. Hochuli
24: A dingo gold mine - Bradley P. Smith
25: Bogged in the desert - Helen P. Waudby

Index to locations and species