What Australian mammalogist described the bondezegu to the scientific community in 1995?
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Moni people The Moni (also known as the Migani, the Megani, the Djonggunu, or the Jonggunu) are an indigenous people in the Indonesian Paniai regency (kabupaten) of the Papua province (formerly Central Irian Jaya) of West Papua (western part of the island of New Guinea). They speak the Moni language. They revere a large black and white whistling tree kangaroo called a bondegzeu as an ancestor. The bondegzeu was unknown to the scientific community until the zoologist Tim Flannery described it in 1995.
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Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof "Tim" Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist. He was the Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public. On 23 September 2013, Flannery announced that he would join other sacked commissioners to form the independent Climate Council, that would be funded by the community.
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Drosera glanduligera Drosera glanduligera, the pimpernel sundew, is a rosetted annual species in the carnivorous plant genus "Drosera" that is endemic to Australia. It is 2.5 - tall and grows in most soil conditions. It produces orange flowers from August to November. It was originally described in 1844 by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann. It is the sole species in the subgenus Coelophylla, which Jan Schlauer elevated from section rank in 1996; it was originally described by Jules Émile Planchon in 1848.
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Phascogale The phascogales (members of the eponymous genus "Phascogale"), also known as wambengers, are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are three species: the brush-tailed phascogale ("Phascogale tapoatafa"), the red-tailed phascogale ("Phascogale calura"), and the northern brush-tailed phascogale ("Phascogale pirata"). As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating. The term "Phascogale" was coined in 1824 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in reference to the brush-tailed phascogale, and means "pouched weasel". All three species are listed as either Near Threatened or Vulnerable by the IUCN.
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Guichen Bay Conservation Park Guichen Bay Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia overlooking Guichen Bay located in the gazetted locality of Mount Benson about 8 km north of the town centre of Robe. While protected status was first conferred to the land in 1967, its current status as a conservation park under the "National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972" was proclaimed in 1972. The following statements sourced respectively from the conservation park’s management plan and the now-discontinued Register of the National Estate summarises its conservation significance:The Park contains some of the Guichen Bay beach ridge plain; a classic example of Holocene beach ridge development of worldwide interest which records the naturalhistory of the Bay over the last 7000 years.Because of its inaccessibility this Park is rarely visited by people. The fairly dense coastal heath provides a home for the secretive DASYORNIS BROADBENTI (rufous bristle bird), while along the seashore dotterels and oystercatchers are common.
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Australopithecus garhi Australopithecus garhi is a 2.5-million-year-old gracile australopithecine species whose fossils were discovered in 1996 by a research team led by Ethiopian paleontologist Berhane Asfaw and Tim White, an American paleontologist. The hominin remains are believed to be a human ancestor species and possibly the direct ancestor to the human genus, "Homo".
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Tree-kangaroo Tree-kangaroos are marsupials of the genus "Dendrolagus", adapted for arboreal locomotion. They inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland, and some of the islands in the region. Most tree-kangaroos are considered threatened due to hunting and habitat destruction. They are the only true arboreal macropods.
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Caladenia zephyra Caladenia zephyra is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It was first formally described in 2006 by David Jones who gave it the name "Arachnorchis zephyra". The type specimen was collected in the Carappee Hill Conservation Park and the description was published in "Australian Orchid Research". In 2008 Robert Bates changed the name to "Caladenia zephyra" and published the change in "Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden". This orchid occurs in the Eyre Peninsula botanical region of South Australia. The specific epithet ("zephyra") is a Latin word meaning "west wind".
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Bunostegos Bunostegos ("knobbly [skull] roof") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptile from the Late Permian of the Agadez Region in Niger. The type species, Bunostegos akokanensis, was named from the Moradi Formation in 2003. It was a cow-sized animal with a distinctive skull that had large bony knobs, similar in form to those of other pareiasaurs but far larger. The species appears to have lived in a desert in the centre of the supercontinent of Pangaea.
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Platypus The platypus ("Ornithorhynchus anatinus"), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. The animal is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus ("Ornithorhynchus"), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record. The first preserved platypus body was thought to have been a fake, made of several animals sewn together, when it was first looked at by scientists in 1799.
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Peninj Mandible The Peninj Mandible (Peninj 1) is the fossilized lower jaw and teeth of a male " Australopithecus boisei". It was discovered in Peninj, Tanzania by Kamoya Kimeu, part of Richard Leakey's team and his protégé, in 1964.
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Jacky dragon The jacky dragon ("Amphibolurus muricatus") is a type of lizard native to southeastern Australia. It was one of the first Australian reptiles to be named, originally described by English zoologist George Shaw in Surgeon-General John White’s "Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales", which was published in London in 1790. It is well known for its bright yellow mouth and well-developed vertebral crest, as well as the temperature-dependent sex determination of its offspring. Other common names include blood-sucker, stonewalker, and tree dragon.
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Pauleen Bennett Pauleen Charmayne Bennett (born 13 October 1963) is an Australian scientist researching anthrozoology at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia.
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Hirola Beatragus hunteri, the hirola, Hunter's hartebeest or Hunter's antelope, is a Critically Endangered antelope species found on the border between Kenya and Somalia. They were discovered in 1888 by the zoologist H.C.V. Hunter It is the only extant member of the genus Beatragus. The global hirola population is estimated at 300–500 animals, there are no hirola in captivity and the wild population continues to decline. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List "The loss of the Hirola would be the first extinction of a mammalian genus on mainland Africa in modern human history."
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Peter C. Doherty Peter Charles Doherty, (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher in the field of medicine. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. In the Australia Day Honours of 1997, he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his work with Zinkernagel. He is also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Doherty's immune system research was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as an iconic "innovation and invention".
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Jack Hyett Jack Hyett (11 July 1915 – 21 July 2001) was an Australian teacher, broadcaster, author, naturalist and amateur ornithologist. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria. He was Foundation President of the Victorian Ornithological Research Group and the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. He served as editor of the "Emu", the journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1965-1968. In 1985 he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion.
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New Zealand quail The New Zealand quail ("Coturnix novaezelandiae"), or koreke (the Māori name), has been extinct since 1875. The male and female were similar, except the female was lighter. The first scientist to describe it was Sir Joseph Banks when he visited New Zealand on James Cook's first voyage. Terrestrial and temperate, this species inhabited lowland tussock grassland and open fernlands. The first specimen to be obtained by a European was collected in 1827 by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard on Dumont D'Urville's voyage.
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Eidothea zoexylocarya Eidothea zoexylocarya is a species of tall rainforest trees endemic to north-eastern Queensland, Australia and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. In European–Australian science, these trees were only recognised in recent decades, first from the slopes of Mount Bartle Frere, the Queensland mountain which reaches the highest altitude. In 1995, scientific descriptions of the trees, as this genus and type species, were published for the first time by Andrew W. Douglas and Bernie Hyland. The species name refers to the almost identical fossil fruit "Xylocaryon lockii" (picture below), from Ballarat, southern Australia, still extant ("zoe" means life) in this north-eastern Australian species.
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Peter Trusler Peter Trusler (born 1954) is an Australian artist known for his work on wildlife art, as well as for his scientifically rigorous reconstructions of prehistoric fauna.
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Kimbetopsalis Kimbetopsalis simmonsae was an ancient mammal (a multituberculata) which was first discovered in 2015.
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Australian water dragon The Australian water dragon ("Intellagama lesueurii", formerly "Physignathus lesueurii" ), which includes the eastern water dragon ("I. l. lesueurii" ) and the Gippsland water dragon ("I. l. howittii" ) subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland. There may be a small introduced population on the south-east coast of South Australia.
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Hypogeomys australis Hypogeomys australis is an extinct rodent from central and southeastern Madagascar. First described in 1903, it is larger than its close relative, the living "Hypogeomys antimena", which occurs further west, but otherwise similar. Average length of the femur (upper leg bone) is 72.1 mm, compared to 63.8 mm in "H. antimena". One of the few extinct rodents of Madagascar, it survived to at least around 1536 BP based on radiocarbon dating. Little is known of its ecology, but it may have lived in burrows like its living relative and eaten some arid-adapted plants.