Monday, 10th July 12th International Mammalogical Congress

• Marsupials: Microchip miracles - Professor Marilyn Renfree

• African researchers show the world how to stop rats through developing ecologically-based rodent management - Steven R. Belmain
• What can lemmings teach us? - Heikki Henttonen
• Managing complex pests: untangling the impacts of black rats on wildlife at the urban bushland interface - Peter Banks
• The search for non-lethal human-wombat conflict mitigation strategies has us digging for answers - Casey C.O O'Brien
• A population dynamic model for planning control strategies of the domestic dog population in Santiago city, Chile. - Mauricio Lima

• Can experiments on behaviour inform our understanding of macroevolution? - Douglas W. Morris
• Producing and scrounging can have stabilising effects at multiple levels of organisation - William L Vickery
• Non-positive abundance-range size relationships of small mammals in subtropical mountain ranges: Dispersal matters - Zhixin Wen
• The human influence on macroevolution and ecology of zoonotic diseases - Elizabeth A Hadly
• Scales: Studies on the foraging ecology of desert rodents at different spatial and temporal scales, from micropatch selection to intercontinental consequences of macroevolutionary advances - Burt P Kotler

• Further declines in populations of the Australian sea lion: Implications for the management of a unique pinniped - Simon D Goldsworthy
• Population demographics of southern right whales in South Australia based on 26 years of seasonal observations - Claire Charlton
• Atypical residency of short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) to a shallow, urbanised bay in south-eastern Australia - Suzanne Mason
• Social influences and sex differences in the development of sponge tool use among wild bottlenose dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia - Janet Mann
• Changes in isotopic signatures suggest food web shift off the western Antarctic Peninsula - Tracey L Rogers

PART 1 of 2

Organisers:

William McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Roland Kays, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Patrick Jansen, Wageningen University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Estimated length: 3 hours

Overview

The use of camera-traps to detect mammals has evolved into a major tool for mammal ecologists. This workshop would cover the logistics of designing and conducting a large scale project based around camera trap images. The organizers are leaders of a major wildlife image repository (> 5 million images) mostly collected by citizen scientists trained, managed, and retained through a web portal (emammal.org).  Besides the primary research aim of each project, there is a shared data standard that allows temporal and spatial comparisons across projects. The data are accessible to the general public and science curriculum is based around both camera trapping and data analysis. The organizers would review relevant topics to setting up and conducting a large-scale project, the data and volunteer management, and use and analysis of the data. Participants will be trained in the eMammal software and R scripts set up for analysis.

Topics include:  Utility of camera trapping; important considerations in camera selection and study design; recruitment and retention of volunteers; camera trapping as an education tool to teach science concepts and to connect students to nature; project organization; data management; data standards, rights and permissions; data analysis appropriate for occurrence data; use of eMammal desktop and expert review applications; future needs.

• Data structure and management necessary for a camera trapping to serve as a conservation tool - William McShea
• Managing volunteers and staff effectively for a distributed network of camera traps - William McShea
• It is about what you’ve got and how you use it - Paul D Meek
• Project designs for running camera traps across small and large landscapes. - Roland Kays
• What’s in your school yard? Using citizen science wildlife cameras to conduct authentic scientific investigations in the classroom - Roland Kays

• Killing mammal predators: An assessment of current management programs and methods. - Gilbert Proulx
• The North American model of wildlife conservation: Through the eyes of the North American river otter - Thomas Serfass
• Is enemy's enemy always a friend? Vague implications of wild dog control on a native marsupial herbivore. - Michal Smielak
• How to find the Achilles heel: Gene targeting in invasive mammal predators - Daniel J White

• Marsupial immune system development - Julie M Old
• Ecological correlates of changes in the abundance of the main hantavirus hosts in Brazil - Renata de Lara Muylaert
• Hematological and chemistry parameters of eight juvenile spider monkeys (Ateles chamek) in captivity in the Amazonian forest of Peru - Grecia Robles
• Do Neotropical bats play a role as potential natural reservoirs of Araraquara hantavirus? - Gilberto Sabino-Santos Jr
• Untangling the koala stress syndrome: Understanding relationships between stress, disease and trauma in relation to clinical outcomes - Edward Narayan

This session is proudly sponsored by Perth Zoo

• Diet, body condition, and reproductive success: winners and losers in sea otter societies - James Estes
• Maternal effects obscure condition-dependent sex allocation in changing environments - Amy M Edwards
• Dose-response effects of deslorelin implants on contraceptive efficacy and health parameters in female Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) - Holly R Cope
• How savanna vegetation influences rodent communities and foraging behaviors - Anne A Loggins
• Elevational diversity patterns of small mammals in the Western Himalayas - Vivek Ramachandran

• Shifting habitat paradigms? Disagreement between the observed and predicted distribution of an expanding fisher (Martes pennanti) population based on previously documented habitat requirements - Maggie D Triska
• Demographic and behavioural characteristics of crop-raiding elephants in Sri Lanka: Can beehive fencing help mitigate human-elephant conflict?        - Kylie M Butler
• The exploitation of anthropogenic resources by dingoes; more than just garbage and scraps - Huw Nolan
• Threats to fishing cats and Indian smooth-coated otters in Godavari mangroves - Srikanth Mannepuri
• ‘Quenda-friendly’ gardens; where urban wildlife conservation meets community engagement - Amanda R Kristancic

• Project rehabilitation of the brown woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii) at the Yana Cocha Rescue Center: Initiations, development of biological aspects, and report of two cases, Amazonian forest  and forest of Ecuador - Camila Lascano
• Summary of Laurasiatheria (Mammalia) phylogeny - jingyang hu
• The role of the climatic niche in the imbalanced diversification of two sister groups - Xue Lv
• Genomic analysis of snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus) identifies genes and processes related to high-altitude adaptation - Li Yu
• Calling in the Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale - song variability and change - Capri D Jolliffe
• Do bolder woylies get fatter? Individual differences in behaviour during and post-translocation. - Kimberley D Page
• Evaluation of feral cat (Felis catus) management plans at Mt Dobong based on demographic status and population viability analyses - Junsoo Kim
• Status of the brown bear Ursus arctos in Iran: Implications for poaching and human-bear conflict - Ali T. Qashqaei
• Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in endangered bridled nailtail wallabies and co-occurring alien species - Alexandra Ross
• Differences in small mammal and habitat structures between unburned and burned pine stands subjected to two different post-fire silvicultural management practices in Korea - Woo-Shin Lee
• 'Spot' call: an unknown great whale sound - Rhianne Ward
• How do deer achieve foraging success under intraspecific competition for food dropped by foraging macaques? - Yoshimi Agetsuma-Yanagihara
• What nutrients do wild deer rely on for food selection at natural feeding stations in a warm-temperate forest? - Naoki Agetsuma
• Variability of oestrous cycles in captive southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons) as measured by urinary progesterone metabolites - Alyce M Swinbourne
• Food preference of flying squirrels among 12 species of Quercus trees with different sugar and phenolic concentrations - Mutsumi Ito
• The effect of stereotypic pacing on maintenance behaviour of giant anteater (myrmecophaga tridactyla) - Yu Nakayama
• Distribution of mammals in wetlands and drylands in south-western Australia: Are wetlands important refuges for mammals? - Kate A Bryant
• Effects of forest management on density and survival in three forest rodent species - Andrea Bonacchi
• Testing the efficacy of local knowledge and field surveys for assessing the status and threats of pangolins in Central Africa - Carla Louise Mousset Moumbolou
• An invitation to publish in the journals of the American Society of Mammalogists - Paul Stapp
• Western tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax dorsalis) in a changing landscape - James K Omifolaji
• Habitat availability and persistence of Pseudomys desertor in the southern extent of its range - Robert Brandle
• Can we use camera traps to estimate density of quenda (Isoodon obesuus fusciventer)? - Georgia Ford
• Taking foxes out of the system allows recovery and re-introduction of native mammals - Trish T Mooney
• Infraction in kidney and proliferative cystitis in an Indian pangolin - Dr Susen Kumar Panda
• Genetic diversity of Czech local breeds regarding their complicated history - Barbora Černá Bolfíková
• Reverse zoonses and threats to wildlife health - Michelle Power
• Australian mammals eat seeds: Rethinking granivory in a rewilding context - Charlotte Mills
• Sandhill dunnarts: Catch me if you can - Joanna Riley
• Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) life histories based on a 23-year camera-trapping project in Neotropical forest in Panama - Jacalyn Giacalone
• First inner ear reconstructions of basal carnivoramorphan mammals: Implications for ecology and phylogeny - Liv M. Gripko
• An endemic in conflict: The nilgai antelope in a human dominated landscape of Western India - Dhawal Mehta
• Distribution modelling and conservation assessment of the pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo) in the Uruguayan Savannah - Flavia Tirelli
• Verifying the efficacy of passive acoustic monitoring for sika deer populations - Hiroto Enari
• Effects of beechnut production on spatiotemporal variations in mammal assemblages in cool-temperate forests of eastern Japan - Haruka Enari
• Mammalian pollinators of Mucuna spp. in Asia - Shun Kobayashi
• Loss of diversity in the community of small mammals of Doñana National Park (SW Spain): Another effect of the local climate change? - L. Javier Palomo
• Temporal reduction in the abundance of Lynx rufus: Evidence from camera-trapping and DNA-analysis - Charli N Davis
• Habitat use and selection by takin in the Qinling Mountains, China - Zhi-Gao Zeng
• Taxonomic determination of neotropical deer in zooarchaeological samples through NGS - Susana Gonzalez
• Difficulties in flying international with camera traps - Sonya Fardell
• Mass mortality of Malayan flying lemurs (Galeopterus variegatus) and its causal factors   - Yamato Tsuji
• Estimating leopard (Panthera pardus) density in miombo woodlands using spatially explicit capture-recapture (SCR) modelling - Antonio Uzal
• Changing food preferences of ungulates in contrasting arid systems - Mika Vermeulen
• Evolution and extinction of the ‘Siberian unicorn’ Elasmotherium sibiricum - Alan Cooper
• Wild boars prefer permanently abandoned farmland in satoyama - Masahiko Takeuchi
• Adenovirus in a wild population of Geoffroy’s tufted-ear marmoset, Callithrix geoffroyi (Humboldt, 1812), in southeastern Brazil   - Maria Cristina Valdetaro Rangel
• Wild boar and Sika deer: From pests to regional resources - Hidenobu Hoshi
• Ancient DNA from the North American flat-headed peccary reveals it’s phylogenetic position and a genetically diverse population prior to extinction - Tahlia Perry
• The muscles of mastication and their related skull characteristics in the Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) - Juha Laakkonen
• Absence of an Articular Disk in the Platypus Temporomandibular Joint - Katsuhiko Hayashi
• Viruses associated with gastroenteritis in the crab-eating fox, Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766), in the Atlantic Forest, Southeastern Brazil - Joao Luiz Rossi Junior
• Human-macaque encounters in Ifrane National Park, Morocco: Behavioural coping strategies of the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) - Malgorzata Pilot
• Climatic, landscape and anthropogenic drivers of habitat suitability for a neotropical ecosystem engineer - Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima
• Distress calls in wild-living neonate Mongolian gazelles (Procapra gutturosa): Relationship with an open habitat, antipredatory strategy, vocal anatomy and testosterone - Ilya A Volodin
• Evolution of sexual dimorphism in musteloid crania - Chris J Law
• Diversity of alarm calls across species of Ruminantia - Elena V Volodina
• Preliminary study of plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus) phylogeography in Southeast Asia - Tatsuo Oshida
• Food niche segregation between sympatric golden jackals and red foxes in central Bulgaria - Hiroshi Tsunoda
• Two new records of langurs Trachypithecus in Tibet, with one new record in China - Zhixin Zhou
• Assessing the status of koalas in forests using acoustics and an occupancy modelling framework - Brad Law
• Population structure, fecundity and new born cub records for the Sunda pangolin Manis javanica - Shibao Wu
• Immune cell profile of different age-sex groups in a captive red-tailed phascogale colony (Phascogale calura) - Corinne Letendre
• Biodiversity in a changing world: Small mammal communities in a mixed-use landscape of the Western Ghats, India - Ansil B R
• The biogeographic basis of Ebola-virus disease outbreaks: A model for other zoonotic diseases? - Raimundo Real
• Are we reaching the end for the taxonomy of mammals? A case from the revision of a most common and dominant wild rat species complex in China (Rodentia, Murinae) - Deyan Ge
• Individual identity in hind and calf contact calls of Siberian wapiti Cervus elaphus sibiricus during separation - Olga V Sibiryakova
• Understanding canid biology helps harness advances in non-lethal control of Australian canids - Ben Allen
• Mice as Stowaways? Colonization history of Danish striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius) - Christina Vedel-Smith
• Morphological variation of epipubic bones in didelphid marsupials: Sexual dimorphism and locomotion. - Gabby Guilhon
• Double trouble: Physical debilitation and allometry associated with hantavirus infection in rats - Renata de Lara Muylaert
• Genital bones: Taxonomic distribution and morphological diversity - Suzanne G Strait
• Use of camera traps as a means for mapping distribution and inferring movement in a fragmented landscape - William McShea
• Who contributed to the evolution of multiple fruits in Asian dogwoods (Cornus)? - Akito Toge
• Phylogeny, not ecology, shapes the mammalian vomeronasal system: Evidence from V1Rs and morphology - Laurel R Yohe
• An overview on the distribution of Mustelidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) in Turkey - Mustafa Soezen
• Investigation of the present state of wild animals and the analysis of the effect by human interference using camera trapping - Hwa-Jin Lee
• RAD sequencing recovers population genetic structure in desert dwelling marsupials - Linette S Umbrello
• Interspecific differences in tannin tolerance cause different population responses of three sympatric rodent species to acorn masting - Takuya Shimada
• Automatic identification of mammal genera in camera trapping pictures using support vector machines and bag of words - Claudia-Victoria Isaza-Narvaez
• WomSAT – wombat survey and analysis tool - Julie M Old
• The integration of computer assisted technology into camera trapping - Paul D Meek
• Population genomics of a zoonotic disease host: The capybara as study case - Juan Pablo Torres-Florez

• Weather drives population dynamics in common European forest and field rodents - Jens Jacob
• Ecologically-based rodent management in SE Asia: Changing rules of engagement with agricultural intensification and extreme climatic events - Alexander M Stuart
• Management challenges of invasive mammals operating at different scales; the European brown hare, bank vole and greater white-toothed shrew in Ireland. - Neil Reid
• Borrowed plant defences: Deterring browsers using a forestry by-product - Rebecca S Stutz
• Biodiversity outcomes for New Zealand’s major pest management regimes   - Rachelle Binny
• Messing with the mind: Using unrewarding prey stimuli to reduce predator impacts - Grant Norbury

• Replacement and displacement driven by innovations, competition and extinctions - Jörgen Ripa
• The comings and goings of giant mammals:  An explanation based on climate and foraging economics - Joel S Brown
• Thoughts on the interplay of demographic stochasticity, fitness, and the niche concept - Robert D. Holt
• Attitudes towards wildlife conservation, New South Wales, Australia - Megan C Fabian
• eMammal: citizen science camera trapping as science, conservation, and public engagement. - Roland Kays

• Using environmental drivers to model blue whale acoustic detection variability - Gary Truong
• Significance of elevated mercury concentrations in Australian sea lion, Neophoca cincerea, pups with endemic hookworm disease - Rachael Gray
• Impacts of toxicants in the marine ecosystem on the health of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) - Shannon Taylor
• Health implications for dolphins with heavy metal contamination in South Australia: A case study of two species in Spencer Gulf - Catherine M Kemper
• From land to water: The thermoregulatory role of fatty acids in the mammalian fat tissue - Alicia I Guerrero
• Spatial distribution of South American in-shore cetaceans - Ricardo Alvarez

Part 2 of 2

Organisers:

William McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Roland Kays, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Patrick Jansen, Wageningen University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Overview

The use of camera-traps to detect mammals has evolved into a major tool for mammal ecologists. This workshop would cover the logistics of designing and conducting a large scale project based around camera trap images. The organizers are leaders of a major wildlife image repository (> 5 million images) mostly collected by citizen scientists trained, managed, and retained through a web portal (emammal.org).  Besides the primary research aim of each project, there is a shared data standard that allows temporal and spatial comparisons across projects. The data are accessible to the general public and science curriculum is based around both camera trapping and data analysis. The organizers would review relevant topics to setting up and conducting a large-scale project, the data and volunteer management, and use and analysis of the data. Participants will be trained in the eMammal software and R scripts set up for analysis.

Topics include:  Utility of camera trapping; important considerations in camera selection and study design; recruitment and retention of volunteers; camera trapping as an education tool to teach science concepts and to connect students to nature; project organization; data management; data standards, rights and permissions; data analysis appropriate for occurrence data; use of eMammal desktop and expert review applications; future needs.

• Data preparation and decisions for multivariate analysis of camera trapping data - Arielle Parsons
• Data analysis: Capture-recapture using R and MARK  - Arielle Parsons
• Data analysis: occupancy and co-occurrence using r scripts - Christopher Rota

• Conditioned taste aversion as a tool for reducing predation by wild canids - Jorge Tobajas
• Feral cat activity, home range, and density, and what happened when cats were removed. - Kathryn Strang
• Learned aversion to poison baits using a ‘self-training’ device in domestic dogs - Tracey L Kreplins
• Dispersal patterns affecting pack formation and breeding success in a monogamous and social carnivore, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) - David G Marneweck
• Conspecific competition and resource depression affect movement and home range establishment of translocated fishers (Pekania pennanti) - Aaron N Facka
• Seasonal spatial behaviour of pine marten Martes martes in a deciduous oak forest of central Italy - Andrea Bonacchi

• Exploring the role of short-tailed shrews (Blarina) in the Lyme disease cycle in North America - Robert K. Rose
• Toxoplasma gondii in domestic dogs living near wild mammals. Is this a complication for conservation purposes? - Anaiá Sevá
• Prevalence of black spot disease among bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia. - Sarah N Powell
• Seasonal variation in occurrence of oxalate nephrosis in South Australian koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Natasha Speight
• Maximising nutritional status in captive marsupials - Hayley J Stannard
• Change in territoriality of Tasmanian devils following a strong population decrease caused by a transmissible cancer. - Sebastien Comte

This session is proudly sponsored by Perth Zoo

• Daily timetable of embryonic development and its implications for reproductive strategies in the common brushtail possum - Lynne Selwood
• Twenty years of primate conservation studies: trends and biases - Flávia Machado
• The role of in-situ speciation in the generation of biodiversity across the Indo-Australian Archipelago - Jonathan A. Nations
• Contrasting the isotopic niche between small-mammal assemblages from habitats with distinct structural complexities - Emerson M Vieira
• Functional responses of an apex predator and mesopredator to invading deer: dingoes, red foxes and sambar in south-eastern Australia - David M. Forsyth

• Stable isotopes as a tool for conservation? Understanding human-primate conflict through seasonal variations of isotopic ratios. - Marion Tafani
• Preliminary results of the impact of human land use and landscape productivity on the density and dynamics of red fox in Norway - Torfinn Jahren
• Kin–bonds among bachelor males contributes to the evolution of a primate multilevel society - Xiao-Guang Qi
• Wild rats are evidence of environmental changes in Asia through the late Quaternary - Deyan Ge
• Multi-locus phylogeography of the rock-dwelling Cape rock hyrax Procavia capensis from southern Africa - Kgaogelo Amanda KA Maswanganye
• Genetic and cytogenetic diversity in the Cricetulus barabensis species group - Natalia S. Poplavskaya

• Using gene drive technology to control invasive mammal species in Australia: Are we ready? - Dorian Moro
• Post-control recovery of behaviourally homogenous pest populations: A case study of personality in wild house mice (Mus musculus) - Kyla C Johnstone
• I don’t think we can be friends! Interactions between wallabies and feral goats at Avon Valley National Park; an operational perspective on management. - Rebecca Kay
• Costs of inflammatory and humoral immune responses in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum: Linking immune variability and life history underground - Ana Paula Cutrera

• Multiscale patterns of habitat use in the koala, a specialised arboreal folivore - Mathew S Crowther
• Is the endangered northern quoll (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyurus hallucatus) one species or four? A morphological re-assessment. - Linette S Umbrello
• Dispersal and synchrony determine the slope of Taylor's law: Gompertz model analyses of Hokkaido vole populations   - Takashi Saitoh
• Geographical physiological variation in energy and water metabolism in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) - Dehua Wang
• The role of middens in white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) olfactory communication - Courtney Marneweck

• CANCELLED - The Ross seal in eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica - Marthán N. Bester
• Flying in circles: Abundance estimation of dolphins using distance sampling - Holly C Raudino
• Applying the multistate capture-recapture robust design to assess metapopulation structure - Delphine Chabanne
• Dolphin Watch: Trends in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) distribution based on long-term citizen science monitoring in the Swan-Canning River park, Western Australia - Chandra Salgado Kent
• Looking without landing: Using UAVs to monitor fur seal populations - Rebecca R McIntosh

• Estimating abundance by combining camera trap and GPS tracking data: A case study using the Tasmanian devil - Joanne Potts
• Reserve size affects density of an African leopard (Panthera pardus) population - Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller
• A comparison of multiple spatial capture-recapture models for estimating mammal densities in a changing landscape - Joanna Burgar
• Fuzzy logic modelling of snow leopard populations in response to threats from climate change - Owen Nevin
• Do occupancy or detection rates from camera traps reflect population density? A case study example with white-tailed deer in North America - Arielle W Parsons

• Ethical considerations for the use of livestock guardian dogs as control tools - Robert McDowell
• Diet and bite force in red foxes: Ontogenetic and sex differences in an invasive carnivore - Patricia A Fleming
• Hiding in plain sight: Taxonomy and redescription of the savanna glider (Petaurus sp nov.) - Teigan Cremona
• Regionally characteristic mammalian genera as ecotourism flagships  - Serban Proches
• Size matters: Does morphological variation translate to ecological differences in a marsupial glider? - Alyson Stobo-Wilson

• Sparganosis: Emerging disease in wildlife - Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska
• Sexual dimorphism of the immune system in eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). - Maquel Brandimarti
• Tracking origin and interspecific transmission routes of influenza A in birds and marine mammals - Linnea Worsøe Havmøller
• Using contact networks to investigate Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease - David Hamilton
• Lessons learned in a wildlife disease study using a citizen science approach. - Joe Jacquot

This session is proudly sponsored by Perth Zoo

Convener: Prof Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

Chair of the IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group

Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Tubney House, Tubney OX13 5QL, UK

An informal meeting of the IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group, open to those working or interested on the biology and conservation of wild canids worldwide.

Contemporary canids are the most widely distributed family of the Carnivora, with members on every continent besides Antarctica. While most canids are widely distributed, several relatively common species are persecuted as livestock raiders.  Others have very restricted distributions and small, isolated populations. For example, Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) are restricted to a few mountain enclaves, Darwin’s foxes (Pseudalopex fulvipes) are endemic to coastal forests in southern Chile, and Sechuran foxes (P. sechurae) are restricted to the costal deserts of north Peru and south Ecuador. While more widespread and abundant, dholes (Cuon alpinus), short-eared foxes (Atelocynus microtis) and bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) are forest specialists of particular concern, due to the rapid fragmentation of their forest habitats and our insufficient understanding of their biology. An additional and increasing threat for many canids concerns the impact of domestic dogs upon their wild relatives, through disease transmission, competition and hybridization.

We will review the state of knowledge of a few selected threatened canid species, and discuss research and conservation priorities for wild canids.

• The evolution of Diprotodontia: Arrested radiation and the kangaroo insurrection - Manuela Cascini
• Phylogenetic measures of marsupials in the world - Margarita M Medina
• Insights from recent advances in phylogenetics and phylogeography of Africa's endemic golden moles (family Chrysochloridae): Implications for taxonomy, biogeography and conservation - Sarita S. Maree
• The endemic New Guinean dasyurid marsupial genus Murexia. How many species? - Patricia A Woolley

• The great escape: How large, carnivorous mammals move out of harm’s way - Doctor Terrie Williams