ML147619
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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Frogs, cicadas ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:28. Timecode out: 00:08:03. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Ian Hume. Timecode In: 00:08:04. Timecode out: 00:14:08. Notes: Australia; Ian Hume; Koalas. Subject 3: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Frogs clicking ambi. Timecode In: 00:15:31. Timecode out: 00:29:33. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Ian Hume. Timecode In: 00:32:10. Timecode out: 00:59:37. Notes: Australia; Ian Hume; Koalas. Subject 5: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Frogs, insects, birds ambi. Timecode In: 00:59:38. Timecode out: 01:02:39. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. LNS#147619 NPR/RADIO EXPEDITIONS AUSTRALIA- KOALAS INTERVIEW WITH IAN HUME ** note koalas are not in the bear family (at least I do not think so) ... in the piece we should include that this is a misnomer WEBSTER's definition of a bear: any of the family (Ursidae of the order Carnivora) of large heavy mammals having long, shaggy hair, rudimentary tail and plantigrade feed and feeding largely on fruits and insects as well as on flesh." 44:05 IH -through a graduate student that I inherited when his graduate professor died halfway through his candidature. He was at the University of New South Wales. At that stage I was at the University of New England at Armadar (sp), but I was working on nutrition of marsupials and the student named Steve Cork asked me to take him on, and so I did. He introduced me to koalas and at the same time I had other students working on possums and another big glider that feeds on Eucalyptus leaves. So the common link was Eucalyptus leaves. How good are Eucalyptus leaves as food and nutritive value. 44:59 45:00 AC -but I think you like koalas, bc earlier when you entered this reserve you said to me: koalas are just magic . 45:12 (laughter) IH -yeah, well they are. And it is very easy to become attached to them emotionally. That is one of the problems with working with koalas. You have to be very careful to maintain your objectivity. 45:30 AC -what is it that is magic about them? 45:33 IH -that is a question that has had intrigued many people for years. Possibly it is their forward facing eyes, and their sort of teddy-bear like face that they have, which is really, really endearing, and I think that is partly why they are the number one animal in terms of popularity. 45:59 46;00 AC -How are they seen in other parts of Australia? 46:09 IH -They are always seen as an endearing animal. Of course they are not found in all parts of Australia. They are really restricted to the eastern coastal plain. They great dividing range just in land from that -and then in the inland river systems that run not towards the Pacific Ocean systems but in towards Lake Eyre (sp) and in that direction. But they are not found in western Australia, naturally, and only very small parts of south Australia are natural habitat. So it is really Victoria, new South Wales, and Queensland. But everybody loves them, no question about that. 47:00 47:01 AC -what about the efforts to conserve the koala now? There are I guess a lot of different plans --in some places there are so many of the creatures people talk about culling them. I guess they don't talk about that any more. I guess that is past as a suggested solution. 47:29 IH -yeah. I mean one of my colleagues down in Victoria, Roger Martin comes up with this suggestion from time to time -that they have got so many koalas in Victoria that whenever they translocate them from one area to another one they quickly breed up and outstrip the food resources of that new area. And I think it is tongue in cheek. I think he is using it to stir up discussion about why there are too many koalas for the number of trees. Whether there are too many koalas or there are not enough trees, and that is the... (Notes truncated)
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- Microfone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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- 9 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
- Digitalizado
- 9 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
- Editado
- 9 Nov 2009 - David McCartt