Kangaroo Tagging at Nelson Bay
I had the opportunity to visit the Nelson Bay Golf Course and observe the tagging programme of semi-wild Eastern Grey Kangaroos being conducted by a colleague in Veterinary Science. Our interest in this work is to later measure the dietary intake of a number of these kangaroos using Android phones.
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The kangaroos are digging up the golf course and we are also trying to understand why they are doing so.
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They are first tranquillised by walking up to them and jabbing them with one of these. A dart gun will probably need to be used for some of the more cautious ones.
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Here is one of the tags.
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The kangaroos being measured.
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We are going to fit a collar like the one below when we do our study.
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Here we are checking whether a mobile phone would fit around its neck comfortably.
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The joey being measured.
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Blood sample.
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Tagging.
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This one weighed about 65 kg.
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Tagged kangaroo.
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Release.
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Tagged kangaroo back on the golf course.
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