Dr Katherine Moseby: The rise of the Super Bilby | ABC Conversations Podcast
October 28, 2022
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Centuries ago, Australia's deserts were teeming with with furry, hopping, burrowing creatures like bilbies, quolls, bandicoots, dunnarts, bettongs, numbats and stick-nest rats.
These mid-sized marsupials built elaborate nests and tunnels and left intricate tracks in the sand, living together in relative harmony, because apart from the Dingo, they had very few predators.
But with the introduction of cats and foxes to Australia, they began to live in constant danger, and their size made them a natural target.
Many are now endangered species, and most are no longer found in large numbers in Australia's arid zones. But now revolutionary new research aims to help them live alongside their predators.
Ecologist Dr Katherine Moseby is part of a team of scientists changing the way we think about feral cats and foxes in the Australian landscape.
Katherine is working on research designed to accelerate natural selection in our mid-sized mammals to help them evolve to live alongside their predators, including millions of feral cats.
With a staged introduction of feral cats into the landscape alongside native animals, she hopes to see a tougher, faster, more predator-smart generation of native animals born within the next few years.
The scientists working in the field have already seen some exciting developments, including a new generation of bettongs, or kangaroo-rats born with bigger feet, and bilbies developing a new awareness of their predators.
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