“Small samples of skin were collected from southern right whales across New Zealand and Australia using a stainless-steel biopsy dart fired from a modified veterinary capture rifle31 or deployed from a crossbow32. Samples were collected from Bremer Bay/Doubtful Island Bay, Western Australia in 1994 and 1995 as previously described23, and Cape Jervis/Encounter Bay, South Australia, Warrnambool a...

All students entering Medicine at the University of Western Australia through the rural recruitment program (RRP) from 1993 to 2006 – so that all graduates were at least postgraduate year (PGY)3 at the time of this study – and for whom town of origin information was available were included under Human Research Ethics Committee approval RA/4/1/6491. A prior study showed that from 2002 to 2006, w...

For 2 grazing seasons, effects of pasture size, stream access, and off-stream water on cow distribution relative to a stream were evaluated in six 12.1-ha cool-season grass pastures. Two pasture sizes (small [4.0 ha] and large [12.1 ha]) with 3 management treatments (unrestricted stream access without off-stream water [U], unrestricted stream access with off-stream water [UW], and stream access...

School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Department of Clinical Biochemistry, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia Kolling Institute Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: P Glendenning, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, PathWest Laboratory Medicine,...

OBJECTIVE To compare pedometer steps of university students who used public transport and private motor vehicles to travel to and or from The University of Western Australia (UWA). METHOD 103 undergraduate students in 2006 recruited by e-mail and snowballing wore a pedometer for five consecutive university days, and completed a travel and physical activity diary. RESULTS Compared with priva...

Lolium perenne L. commonly known as “ray grass” is a temperate grass species used pasture for livestock. perennen belongs to family Poaceae and perennial herb. It has great economic importance owing its suitability forage grass. cultivated in fields feed However, current study focuses on uncultivated Ray widely distributed fields, mostly found moist places, banks of stream, pastures etc. Farmer...

Reproductive wastage was investigated over two seasons among sheep grazing non-oestrogenic pastures. The results show that approximately 25 percent of the ewes were not cycling when the rams were joined. Ovulation rates were consistently low, averaging 1.09, and fertilization rates consistently high, averaging 93 percent. Embryonic mortality varied widely between properties and years, but avera...