| long-term fertility control in the kangaroo and the wallaby using levonorgestrel implants. | non-lethal management techniques are needed for overabundant captive and wild populations of macropodid marsupials for which lethal techniques are considered inappropriate and may be hazardous. the tammar wallaby, macropus eugenii, was used as a model species to investigate the effect of s.c. levonorgestrel implants on reproduction during breeding and non-breeding seasons. implants were tested on captive and wild populations of eastern grey kangaroos, macropus giganteus. in both species, levonor ... | 2002 | 12220166 |
| serologic-based investigation of leptospirosis in a population of free-ranging eastern grey kangaroos (macropus giganteus) indicating the presence of leptospira weilii serovar topaz. | eastern grey kangaroos (macropus giganteus) are one of the most abundant large macropodids sharing the landscape with humans. despite this, little is known about the prevalence of leptospira carriage within this species and the role that they may partake in the transmission of this disease in australia. the sera of 87 free-ranging eastern grey kangaroos, captured in the warragamba catchment area, sydney, australia, from june 2004 to november 2006, were screened against a reference panel of 22 le ... | 2010 | 20688651 |
| evidence for hybridisation between paramacropostrongylus iugalis and p. typicus (nematoda:strongyloidea) in grey kangaroos, macropus fuliginosus and m. giganteus, in a zone of sympatry in eastern australia. | specimens of paramacropostrongylus iugalis and p. typicus, collected from eastern (macropus giganteus) and western (m. fuliginosus) grey kangaroos in new south wales and queensland, were examined morphologically and electrophoretically at 4 enzyme loci previously demonstrated to be diagnostic between the 2 species. collections of p. iugalis from m. giganteus from outside the zone of sympatry of the 2 kangaroo species conformed electrophoretically and morphologically with previous studies. within ... | 1997 | 9193941 |
| phylogeography of eastern grey kangaroos, macropus giganteus, suggests a mesic refugium in eastern australia. | phylogeographic studies around the world have identified refugia where fauna were able to persist during unsuitable climatic periods, particularly during times of glaciation. in australia the effects of pleistocene climate oscillations on rainforest taxa have been well studied but less is known about the effects on mesic-habitat fauna, such as the eastern grey kangaroo (macropus giganteus). the eastern grey kangaroo is a large mammal that is common and widespread throughout eastern australia, pr ... | 2015 | 26024370 |