Publications

henry leighton jones and his contribution to gland grafting.	henry leighton jones, the monkey-gland doctor of the newcastle area during the 1930s, was a man of considerable experience in pharmacy, dentistry, general practice and surgery. his career is outlined in sufficient detail to emphasize that as a result of wide experience and a life of study he may have discovered some important principles of tissue-typing and applied them with success to his gland transplant surgery.	1977	349329
mortality of wild and captive chimpanzees.	mortality of chimpanzees in the wild (gombe national park) and in captivity (taronga zoo, sydney and melbourne zoo) was compared using standard cohort life table techniques. overall mortality probabilities up to age 30 were compared using a logrank test. no significant difference in overall mortality was revealed, and the mortality curves did appear to be surprisingly similar, but there were nevertheless some differences in the distribution of mortality. perinatal mortality was higher in the zoo ...	1989	2613114
fifty years of chimpanzee demography at taronga park zoo.	there has been a captive pan troglodytes colony at taronga park zoo in sydney, australia, since the mid-1930s. demographic data on these animals were first analyzed in 1986; however, further information collected for 15 years since then is now available. the reproductive histories of 33 females in the colony have been recorded, and these data form the largest collection of captive chimpanzee data from a setting that has involved natural breeding conditions since the mid-1960s. these data were an ...	2005	16287103
do free-ranging common brushtail possums (trichosurus vulpecula) play a role in the transmission of toxoplasma gondii within a zoo environment?	to investigate the possible role of common brushtail possums (trichosurus vulpecula) in the transmission of toxoplasma gondii within a zoo environment, a serological survey of a free-ranging population resident within taronga zoo, sydney, australia was undertaken using the modified agglutination test (mat). for comparison, the seroprevalence of t. gondii antibodies was also assessed in a possum population inhabiting a felid-free, non-urban woodland habitat. six of 126 possums (4.8%) from the zoo ...	2008	18281157