Nature Australia Volume 26
Winter 1998 - Autumn 2001
Note: the number preceding the slash denotes the issue number and the number following denotes the page number, e.g. 2/5 = issue number 2, starting on page 5.
Subject Index
Aboriginal isolation 1/4
Aboriginal rock art 3/40, 7/4
age of death 9/13
alpine seasons 4/64
Amazon Basin 11/16
ambergris 7/6
amphipods 6/12, 12/82
Antarctica [Photoart] 9/70
Antarctic warming 2/9
anthropomorphism 6/5, 7/4, 8/4, 10/5
autotomy 5/16
billabongs 3/64
birds
—Adelie Penguins 7/8, 11/9
—Australasian Gannet 5/12
—Australian Magpie 1/4, 10/12, 12/5
—Bearded Vulture 11/7
—begging chicks 3/8, 11/10
—birds of paradise 12/15
—Black Grouse 11/8
—Blue Tit 4/12, 7/5
—boobies 5/28, 5/62
—Budgerigar 1/8
—buffalo weavers 9/9
—Bullockornis planei 7/56
—Canada Goose 5/15
—Canary 3/8
—Common Tern 10/12
—Crested Pigeon 5/78
—Crimson Rosella 11/32
—Crowned Plover 4/8
—crows 2/16, 6/5, 10/5
—cuckoos 5/11
—dromornithids 7/12, 7/56, 7/70
—Emu 9/20
—fruit-doves 6/79
—Genyornis newtoni 7/12
—Glossy Black-Cockatoo 7/48, 11/4
—Gould's Petrel 4/60
—Great Tit 8/11
—Grey Butcherbird 11/20
—hornbills 6/17
—House Sparrow 3/17, 9/14
—ibises 4/26
—jacanas 10/8
—Kaka 5/5
—Kakapo 3/54
—lekking in 11/8
—Lesser Double-collared Sunbird 5/16
—Little Wattlebird 1/18
—lyrebirds 1/32, 3/6
—MacGregor's 'Bird of Paradise' 12/15
—Magpie Goose 8/46
—Magpie-lark 8/20
—Mallard Duck 8/18
—Masked Lapwing 12/18
—migration of 6/9
—moas 12/13
—Norfolk Island Boobook Owl 5/20
—oiled 3/12
—oxpeckers 2/12, 5/7
—parrots 5/6, 6/24
—Peaceful Dove 1/78
—Peacock 11/8
—Peewee 8/20
—penises in 3/24
—Peregrine Falcon 2/28, 5/5
—Photoart 8/64
—Pied Currawong 2/78
—polar navigation 6/9
—pollination by 5/16
—ravens 6/5, 8/4, 10/5
—Red-crowned Crane 10/6
—Resplendent Quetzal 7/14
—Sage Grouse 11/14
—sex in 3/24
—Shy Albatross 9/22
—sleeping with one eye open 8/18
—Southern Cassowary 12/62
—stilts 5/4
—Sulphur-crested Cockatoos 10/82
—thunder birds 7/12, 7/56, 7/70
—Tooth-billed Bowerbird 10/18
—UV vision in 7/5
—V flight formation 8/15
—Wattled Jacana 10/8
—Wedge-tailed Eagle 10/34
—White-bellied Sea-Eagle 6/30, 8/4
—White-faced Heron 3/5
—White-winged Chough 3/11
—Yellow-crested Cockatoo 2/20
—Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo 3/79
blue veins 2/4
boomerangs 11/8
Borneo forests 11/15
box jellyfishes 12/32
Bradshaw paintings 3/40, 7/4
Canberra wildlife [Photoart] 11/70
captive animals 2/36
carnivorous herbivores 1/5
centipedes 12/42
Chinese Neolithic flute 10/6
conservation, through knowledge 7/7
conservation myths 2/80, 7/5
Coriolis force 4/78
cosmetics 11/7
crabs
—fiddler 7/10
—Purple Rock Crab 3/78
—Red Crab 2/44
Creation 'science' 2/4
Creation vs evolution 4/4, 4/5
cross-fostering 8/8
cuttlefish 10/16
dating methods 3/44, 10/64
earthworms 5/18
earwax 2/12
Easter Bilby 2/5, 7/6, 9/6, 9/7
Easter Island 4/6
eating native wildlife 9/4, 9/5, 11/5
ecosystem services 10/84
embalming 4/8
emeralds 12/7
eyes 4/5
facial symmetry 9/15
feather colour 8/12
fibres 5/22
fishes
—Basking Shark 6/11, 11/17
—Cookie-cutter Shark 8/17
—Elephant Fish 10/82
—Grey Nurse Shark 12/20
—Indonesian coelacanth 7/18
—larval reef-fish 10/52
—mudskippers 4/13
—Napoleon Wrasse 1/6, 1/80
—Port Jackson Shark 10/26
—sex change in 11/50
—sunfish flaps 6/10
—Western Buffalo Bream 8/56
flatworms 5/9
freedom of speech 3/5
frogs
—bubble nests of 5/10
—Cane Toad 7/20, 9/32
—Cane Toad scats 4/78
—changing colour in 9/82
—extra legs 5/14
—eyelids in 3/78
—Green and Golden Bell Frog 4/50
—ground 2/24
—Brisbane 11/24
—leaf-eating 1/13
—Nicholls' Toadlet 2/24
—North American Bullfrog 5/7, 8/4
—Peron's Tree Frog 7/78
—poison dart frogs 1/16, 11/16
—recognition software for frog calls 9/38
—Spotted Poison Frog 1/16
—tadpole schools 6/12
—Tusked Frog 1/50
frost 5/11
fungi [Photoart] 10/70
genetics in conservation 7/5, 8/80
giant squids 5/24
handaxes 10/16
heterochrony 4/22
holothurians 2/78
Homo erectus 9/17
human colonisation of Australia 10/60, 12/4
human colonisation of Pacific 8/16
human evolution 8/8, 12/7
human sexual preferences 7/11, 7/16, 11/7
human/Chimpanzee hybrids 8/78
hyphens 1/5
ice ages 5/54
ice man 2/60, 8/14
Indonesian sea crossings 9/17
insects
—ant mimicry 12/16
—ants and acacias 10/15
—asymmetrical butterflies 10/11
—beetle diversity 6/10
—bird-of-paradise flies 1/78
—bombardier beetles 8/78
—butterflies 9/24
—butterfly sex 8/38
—cockroaches 3/18, 6/5
—crickets 12/16
—Desert Locust 12/8
—dragonflies 2/18
—fireflies 3/10
—flour beetles 9/12
—fossil 6/70, 9/6
—Golden Egg Bug 1/11
—Honey Bee stings 7/17
—hoverflies 8/15
—ladybirds 5/78
—leaf-cutter ants 9/8
—Long-tailed Dance Fly 12/6
—mayflies 6/18
—mosquitoes 7/38, 9/11
—moths 4/64, 12/82
—mud-dauber wasps 9/16, 11/42
—mulga ants 10/82
—paperwasps 3/13
—periodical cicadas 2/7
—Pink Ground Pearl 3/13
—Rattlebox Moth 9/18
—smoke-detecting beetles 9/14
—Speckled Wood Butterfly 10/11
—spider wasps 2/78
—stingless bees 2/6, 3/4
—sugar ants 12/16
—termites 6/6
—Wanderer Butterfly 11/82
—Wattle Tick Scale 1/78
—Wingless Dung Beetle 7/22
—witchetty grubs 7/78
island populations 1/24
jet lag 4/6
lekking 11/8
love 7/16
malaria 9/11
male mortality bias 2/11
mammals
—African Elephant 5/7
—Antarctic Fur Seal 1/9
—armadillos 2/7
—Aye-aye 7/10
—baboons 4/15
—Banded Hare-wallaby 10/22
—Bear Cuscus 12/24
—bears 7/9
—Bilby 2/5, 5/4
—blossom-bats 1/56
—Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby 7/30
—Carpentarian Rock-rat 1/20
—Cat 8/70
—cetacean battle scars 4/9
—Cheetah 9/6
—Chimpanzee 9/10, 12/7
—Chuditch 8/70
—Common Brushtail Possum 11/4
—diprotodontids 4/70
—Eastern Grey Kangaroo 6/20, 11/5
—elephants in Australia 3/70, 6/5
—Emperor Penguin 1/16
—Feathertail Glider 11/12
—flying-foxes 2/54
—fossil sloth poo 7/13
—Gilbert's Potoroo 9/7
—Goat 8/8
—Greater Stick-nest Rat 12/52
—Harbour Seal 6/7, 10/5
—Japanese Macaque 7/15
—Julia Creek Dunnart 8/9
—Killer Whale 6/15, 8/6, 8/12
—knuckle-walking primates 12/7
—Lesser Short-tailed Bat 2/70
—Lion 6/4, 12/12
—long-tailed 5/38
—mammoths 11/12
—marsupial lions 10/44
—marsupial moles 11/26
—monkey species associations 1/12
—New Holland Mouse 3/48
—Northern Bettong 6/22
—Northern Brown Bandicoot 4/16
—pebble-mound mice 2/5
—Platypus 4/13, 5/16, 8/5
—Polar Bear 6/8
—Proserpine Rock-wallaby 3/20
—Rabbit 4/42
—rat poo 3/15
—Red Fox 2/4
—Red Howling Monkey 3/8
—ringtail possums 4/34, 6/5
—Rock Ringtail Possum 8/30
—sabre-toothed tigers 10/44
—Sea Otter 8/6
—seals 6/7
—Sheep 5/9, 8/8
—skin-breathing 8/9
—spotlighting 4/34, 6/5
—Striped Possum 9/26
—tigers 6/6
—Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat 8/22
—Western Quoll 8/70
—whale origins 7/12
—whale strandings 3/80, 6/4
—whale tongues 3/9
—whiskers of 6/7, 10/5
megafauna, extinction of 6/14, 7/12
mites, feather 7/9
molluscs
—autophagous octopus 9/18
—Brown Garden Snail 4/4, 5/12
—left- and right-handed snails 6/16
—medicines from 9/50
—mussels 10/14
—nerite shells 3/16
multiculturalism 1/4
mummies 6/8
myopia 10/10
native or not? 7/24, 11/5
native wildlife, consumption of 9/4, 9/5, 11/5, 12/84
nature management 4/80, 7/6
Neanderthals 1/14, 4/10, 10/9, 11/14
Neolithic neurosurgery 1/10
new millenium 11/4
New Zealand, Australianisation of 12/22
Norfolk Island 6/26
octopuses 2/5, 8/7
opals 11/82
orgasm 7/15, 9/9
origin of life 8/26
tzi 2/60, 8/14
overwater dispersal 3/70
pets, native 8/70, 10/4, 12/4
plants
—African thorn trees 10/15
—Australian weeds overseas 4/20
—bat-pollinated 8/6
—carnivorous 9/4
—cherries 9/8
—communication in 2/8
—deciduous 2/12, 2/22
—empty seeds 9/16
—garlic 1/14
—isolated trees 9/58
—Kiwi Fruit 3/5
—leaf domatia 1/12
—mast-fruiting 11/15
—Mellblom's Spider-orchid 4/18
—native or not? 7/24, 11/5
—parasitic 8/24
—Peach Myrtle 11/22
—rainforest species names 1/22
—red nectar 6/7
—sensitive 3/22, 5/5
—sensitivity to frost 5/11
—serotinous 6/24
—serrated leaves 2/12
—smoke-induced germination 1/10
—strandline 10/24
—tobacco 2/10
—wood [Photoart] 1/64
privatisation of wildlife 12/84
pumice 9/66
purring 6/4, 9/6
pyramids 7/14
Rabbit Calicivirus (or Haemorrhagic) Disease 4/42, 7/4, 9/84
rabies 8/10
rainy weekends 7/16
red pepper spray 7/9
reefs, destructive fishing methods 1/80
reptiles
—'feathered' dinosaur 3/14
—Amethystine Python 5/14
—Apatosaurus 5/8
—Balearic Lizard 3/11
—bandy-bandies 6/38, 9/6
—basking snakes 5/78
—Blue Belly 2/13
—blue-tongued lizards 3/30, 6/78
—Brisbane River Turtle 2/11
—Brown Tree Snake 10/20
—ceratopsian dinosaurs 8/18
—Coral Snake 9/6, 12/9
—crocodiles 11/60
—dinosaurs 1/8, 3/14, 4/7, 5/8, 6/11, 7/9, 7/13, 7/78, 8/12, 8/18, 10/7, 11/60, 12/14
—dome-headed dinosaurs 6/11
—Eastern Brown Snake 10/14
—feathered dinosaurs 10/7
—geckos 5/46, 7/6
—horned lizards 4/54
—ichthyosaurs 2/6, 6/46
—Leatherback Turtle 1/13, 8/11
—lizard colonisation of Pacific 8/16
—lizard pollination 3/11
—lizard reproduction 3/6
—lizard tail loss 5/16
—long-necked dinosaurs 8/12
—Marine Iguana 11/6
—mosasaurs 6/46
—pack-hunting dinosaurs 12/14
—plesiosaurs 6/46
—rattlesnakes 3/9
—Red-sided Gartersnake 11/11
—Scipionyx 4/7
—Sleepy Lizard 9/6
—snake farts 12/9
—snake origins 11/18
—snake penises 9/42, 9/83
—snake tails 11/11
—third or parietal eye 6/78
—Thorny Devil 4/54
—Three-toed Skink 3/16
—Tree Lizard 2/13
—Triceratops 8/18
—Tyrannosaurus rex gout 1/8
—Tyrannosaurus rex poo 7/13
—Tyrannosaurus rex ribs 7/78
—Veiled Chameleon 8/14
—vibratory signalling 8/14
Riverkeepers 7/80
rocks [Photoart] 7/64
rotational direction 4/78
salamanders 2/8
sand, booming 4/14
sand, origins of 7/26
science and the media 6/80
sea cucumbers 2/78
seasquirts 12/11
seed dispersal 9/13
serotiny 6/24
sexually transmitted defence 9/18
short-sightedness 10/10
silk, artificial production 7/18
skepticism 5/70
spices 6/14
spiders
—autotomy 9/82
—avoid sticking to web 8/78
—bridal veils 10/17
—green huntsman 4/78
—gumnut-mimicking 10/17
—huntsmen 3/4
—jumping spider diet 4/79
—orb-weavers attracted to light 10/18
—pollen-eating 7/5
—silk production in 7/18
—spitting 10/6
—tree-spanning webs 7/79
—upside-down posture of 2/78
—winter 12/82
sponges 6/18, 6/78
spotlighting, effects of 4/34
stone tools, Indonesian 9/17
Tasmania [Photoart] 2/64
teeth, ancient false 5/7
testicles 2/14
tickling 10/14
ticks 1/6, 3/6
tornadoes 1/42, 10/4
translocations 11/82
trepanations 1/10
tropical waters [Photoart] 12/70
tsunamis 1/70, 3/5, 7/5
tubeworms 12/13
vampires 8/10
Venus figurines 12/10
whaling records 2/9
Wingecarribee Swamp 5/80, 8/4
worms
—earthworms 5/18
—Pompeii Worm 4/9
—trace fossils of 6/17
Authors And Titles
ADAM, P., KODELA, P., TRANTER, D. & REEVES, A. Wingecarribee affairs [Letter] 8/4
ADCOCK, L. Whale records track ice edge 2/9
—Leaf with teeth 2/12
ALLAN, T. [Review of] Under Bungonia 6/72
ALLEN, J. A matter of time 10/60
—Radiometric dating techniques 10/64
—Time matters [Reply to Letter] 12/4
ARCHER, M. The one-in-600-year wave 1/70
—Bizarre bats of the burrows 2/70
—A legacy of boats, bloats and floaters 3/70
—Tipping an air head out of a stone bed 4/70
—Immunising against flim-flam virus 5/70
—Bugs and bones in ancient stones 6/70
—Brain of the Demon Duck of Doom 7/70
—Monstrous moggies or charming Chuditches? 8/70
—Riversleigh insects [Letter] 9/6
ARMSTRONG, T. [Review of] A photographic guide to trees of Australia 5/72
—[Review of] The flower chain: the early discovery of Australian plants 6/72
—[Review of] Wildflowers of the snow country: a field guide to the Australian Alps 6/73
ATKINSON, K. Boobies [Photoart] 5/62
AW, M. Wrasse report [Letter] 1/6
—Raping the reefs and reaping the profits 1/80
BAILEY, J. Origin of life 8/26
BARRASS, C. Native wildlife off the menu [Letter] 9/5
BENKENDORFF, K. Molluscan medicines 9/50
BERENTS, P. [Answer to] Sponges 6/78
BERRY, P. Marine 'buffalos' 8/56
BEWS, B. Pebble mystery solved [Letter] 2/5
BICKEL, D. [Review of] Life in the treetops: adventures of a woman in field biology 8/73
BIRT, P., MARKUS, N., COLLINS, L. & HALL, L. Urban flying-foxes 2/54
BLAKERS, R. The wild shapes of Tasmania 2/64
BLOOMFIELD, J. More on wombats and Hanson 1/4
BOCK, D. [Review of] Bringing back the wetlands 8/72
BOLAND, C. Shy Albatross 9/22
BOLES, W.E. [Review of] Fairy-wrens and grasswrens 1/72
—[Review of] Finding birds in Australia's Northern Territory 1/74
—[Review of] The birds of prey of Australia: a field guide to Australian raptors 3/73
—Skippy the baby dinosaur 4/7
—[Review of] Taking wing: Archaeopteryx and the evolution of bird flight 5/73
—[Answer to] Whistling wings 5/78
—[Answer to] Split iris 6/79
—[Answer to] Dinosaur bones 7/78
—[Review of] Kingfishers & kookaburras: jewels of the Australian bush 8/72
—[Review of] A guide to bird habitats in New South Wales 8/73
—[Answer to] Crook cockatoos 10/82
—[Review of] The directory of Australian birds: passerines 11/76
BRACKENBURY, J. Complex eyes [Reply to Letter] 4/5
BRADSHAW, J. Kiwi bitter? [Letter] 3/5
BRESSAN, V. Congratulations [Letter] 7/6
BRISKIE, J. Why kissing is for the birds 3/24
CAMERON, E. [Review of] Encyclopedia of birds 5/72
—[Review of] Encyclopedia of reptiles and amphibians 5/73
CARR, G. Mellblom's Spider-orchid 4/18
CHALARIMERI, A. Guyon Guyon paintings [Letter] 7/4
CHAPMAN, G. Crows, not ravens [Letter] 10/5
CHAPMAN, M. [Review of] Animals and nature: cultural myths, cultural realities 9/77
CHAPMAN, T. Fussy black-cockatoos 7/48
CHARRON, B. Native wildlife off the menu [Letter] 9/4
CHRISTIE, F. [Review of] Birdwatching in Australia and New Zealand 6/72
CHUDLEIGH, B. Fly traps & Kaka sex [Letter] 5/5
—Fungi [Photoart] 10/70
CLAGUE, C. Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat 8/22
CLARKE, J. More stingless bees [Letter] 3/4
CLODE, D. Careful, she might see you 1/8
—To hatch or not to hatch? 2/8
—The price of manhood 2/10
—Monkeys aim for the gap 3/8
—Hissing snakes full of hot air 3/9
—Knowing me, knowing ewe 5/9
—Crabs with balls 7/10
—Alpha males make the Earth move 7/15
—One late tern deserves no other? 10/12
—Shellfish feelings 10/14
—Spiders enjoy the bright lights 10/18
—Snakes' tell-tails 11/11
—Kicked out of paradise 12/15
—Yellow-bellied ants 12/16
COENRAADS, R. [Review of] Gemstones and minerals of Australia 12/77
COLEMAN, P. [Review of] Mollusca: the southern synthesis 2/72
COOKE, B. Rabbit arrest: life after death? 4/42
COOPER, J. Bird days [Photoart] 8/64
COOPER, N. Potoroo rediscovery [Reply to Letter] 9/7
CORK, S. Ecosystem services 10/84
CREASER, P. [Review of] Black opal fossils of Lightning Ridge: treasures from the Rainbow Billabong 8/73
—[Review of] Rock of ages: human use and natural history of Australian granites 8/74
CROWDER, B. [Review of] Windows on meteorology: Australian perspective 1/72
CROWE, A. Octopuses and screwtop jars [Letter] 2/5
CURTIS, S. Lyrebirds: veiled in secrecy 1/32
CUTLER, C. Clever caterers 9/16
DAWSON, B. Oily birds 3/12
—Rodent paint bombs 3/15
—Oxpeckers and elephants 5/7
—Stoned gannets 5/12
DE BARRO, P. Native matters [Letter] 11/5
DEBUS, S. Flying kite [Letter] 8/4
DOGGETT, S. Aborigines and ticks [Reply to Letter] 1/6
DOSE, S. Understanding Magpies [Letter] 1/4
DOWNES, S. Home geckonomics 5/46
DRISCOLL, D.A. Genetic tools for conservation 8/80
—Ground frogs on the rise 2/24
DROVER, A. Complex eyes [Letter] 4/5
—Do Lions purr? [Letter] 6/4
—Jumping species [Letter] 7/4
—Possum predators [Letter] 11/4
DUNSTAN, R. Alpine seasons [Photoart] 6/64
DUSTING, R.-M. Easter Bilby's mine! [Letter] 9/7
EDGECOMBE, G. [Review of] Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and other animals of the Mesozoic Era 4/73
—[Review of] The evolution revolution 7/72
—[Review of] The crucible of creation: the Burgess Shale and the rise of animals 10/77
—Centipedes: the great Australian bite 12/42
EDWARDS, G. [Review of] The kangaroo betrayed: world's largest wildlife slaughter 10/76
EDWARDS, P. In defence of reality [Letter] 11/5
ELDRIDGE, H. Creation 'scientist' bashing [Letter] 2/4
ELDRIDGE, M. Trouble in paradise? 1/24
ELGAR, M.A. [Answer to] Spider tactics 2/78
—Conservation myths 2/80
—[Answer to] Long webs 7/79
ENNIS, T. [Review of] Care of Australian wildlife and Caring for Australian native birds 9/78
FAITHFUL, I. Easter Bilby origins [Letter] 7/6
FARRELL, G. [Answer to] Wattle Tick Scale 1/78
FLEMONS, P. & I. [Review of] Australian menagerie: a challenging game about Australia's wildlife 12/76
FRENCH, J. Lyrebird lyrics [Letter] 3/6
FULLAGAR, R. Easter Island rock gardens 4/6
—Neanderthals' bone flute? 4/10
—Scrofulous mummies? 6/8
—Burnt offerings for Big Bird? 7/12
—Pyramids mimic bird calls 7/14
—What's cooking? 8/8
—X marks the spot 8/14
—Age-old problem 9/13
—Ancient mariners? 9/17
—On the wings of a song 10/6
—Neanderthal cocktail 10/9
—Sex axe 10/16
—Groovy boomerangs 11/8
—Neanderthal cannibals 11/14
—Stone clothes 12/10
— Moa off the menu 12/13
—& WILLIS, P. Science and the media 6/80
GARNETT, S. Possum predators [Reply to Letter] 11/4
GAZECKI, J.C. The Riverkeepers 7/80
GEISER, F. Cool bats 1/56
GERACI, J. Whale strandings: should we intervene? 3/80
GIBSON, L. [Review of] King koala 3/72
—Do Lions purr? [Reply to Letter] 6/4
—[Review of] Whale watching in Australian & New Zealand waters 9/77
—[Review of] Locating Koalas in the Australian bush and The Koala: natural history, conservation and management 11/77
GILLINGS, B. Not so remarkable whiskers [Letter] 10/5
GRAY, M. [Answer to] Sticky question 8/78
GREEN, L. Common or Garden Snail [Letter] 4/4
GREENBERG, H.N. Purring Cheetahs [Letter] 9/6
GREER, A.E. Nature management: how natural is it? 4/80
—[Answer to] Winter basking 5/78
—[Answer to] The eyes have it 6/78
—[Review of] Burning questions: emerging environmental issues for indigenous peoples in northern Australia 7/73
—[Answer to] Are two penises better than one? 9/83
—[Review of] Feral future 10/76
—[Review of] The pure state of nature 11/78
—Putting the move on nature 11/84
GRIGG, G. Cane Toads vs native frogs 9/32
GUHL, A. Bandy-bandies and coral snakes [Letter] 9/6
HALVORSEN, L. Insect pearls 3/13
HANDASYDE, K. Striped Possums: the bold and the beautiful 9/26
HARRIS, K. The huntsman [Letter] 3/4
HEARD, T. & DOLLIN, A. More stingless bees [Reply to Letter] 3/4
HEINSOHN, T. Captive ecology 2/36
—A giant among possums 12/24
HICKEY, G. Shell shock? 3/16
—Possums in the spotlight [Letter] 6/5
—Tsunami backfire? [Reply to Letter] 7/5
—Penguin prostitutes 7/8
—Birds sleep with one eye open 8/17
—Bird's orgasmic organ 9/9
—Not so remarkable whiskers [Reply to Letter] 10/5
—Gumnut babies 10/17
—Vulture cosmetics 11/7
—Snake's defensive farts 12/9
HIND, T. Spidery herbs [Letter] 9/4
HIRST, D. [Answer to] Green spiders 4/78
HOLDEN, K. Neolithic neurosurgery 1/9
—Plant's pocket predators 1/12
—Turtles chill out in the sun 2/11
—Red is for hunger 3/8
—Jet lag only skin deep 4/6
—Cool parents 4/8
—Blame big ears 5/7
—Goose growth island style 5/15
—Riddle of the red nectar 6/7
—Auto-erotica 6/18
—Obsessions with maammaa 8/8
—Vampires or rabies? 8/10
—Vicious circles 8/17
—Hot and horny 8/18
—Just passing through 9/13
—Moths & STDs 9/18
—Self-eating octopus 9/18
—Spitting spiders 10/6
—Snorkelling chicks 10/8
—Lopsided butterflies 10/11
—Sexual fraternities 11/8
—Ridges or rivers? 11/16
—'Party-pooping' locusts 12/8
—Sperm attack 12/11
HOOK, C. [Review of] Australian kangaroos: magnificent macropods 6/73
—[Review of] Fraser Dingo 6/74
—[Review of] Mahogany the mystery glider 8/72
HOPENSTAND, D. & JOSEPH, L. A sight for UV eyes 4/12
HORTON, D. Not so easy being green 12/84
HUGHES, A. Creation vs evolution [Letter] 4/5
HUMPHREY, M. [Answer to] Ladybird, ladybird' 5/78
HUNWICK, D.J. Chocolate Bilbies [Letter] 5/4
HYSLOP, A. [Review of] Genetic engineering, food, and our environment 12/76
JEPSON, P. Yellow-crested Cockatoo 2/20
JOBSON, P. [Review of] A practical guide to soil lichens and bryophytes of Australia's dry country 1/73
—[Review of] EUCLID: an interactive key to the identification of eucalypts CD-ROM 2/72
—[Review of] Western weeds: a guide to the weeds of western Australia 2/73
—[Review of] Aquatic and wetland plants: a field guide for non-tropical Australia 7/72
—[Review of] The families of flowering plants of Australia: an interactive identification guide 10/77
—[Review of] Field guide to Australian wildflowers 10/78
—[Review of] William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's first natural historian 11/76
JONES, A. [Review of] This tired brown land 4/72
—[Review of] Saving the environment 7/72
JONES, R. [Review of] A journey through stone: the Chillagoe story 2/74
—[Review of] The fossil collector's guide 2/74
—[Review of] The Little Prehistory Books Series 3/74
JOSEPH, L. UV eyes? [Reply to Letter] 7/5
KARACSONYI, T. Frostbite [Photoart] 9/70
KEMP, D.J. Sex butterfly style 8/38
KEOGH, S. Snake penises 9/42
KREBS, E. Raising rosellas 11/32
KROON, F. & WESTCOTT, D. Helmet heads 12/62
LEE, M. Wormholes in deep time? 6/17
—Mitey dinosaurs? 7/9
—The way to a whale 7/12
—Noisy flowers 8/6
—Dinosaurs of a feather' 10/7
—The case of the shrinking iguanas 11/6
—Pleistocene Park? 11/12
—Knuckling down our ancestors 12/7
LEIS, J.M. Out of the blue 10/52
LEMMER, L. & CANTRELL, C. [Review of] John Gould in Australia: letters and drawings 1/74
LOMB, N. [Review of] Ripples on a cosmic sea 1/74
LONG, J. Prehistoric sea monsters of the west 6/46
LONGMORE, W. [Answer to] Red heads 1/78
LOW, T. Strange names in dark forests 1/22
—Why evergreen? 2/22
—Plants with sensitivity 3/22
—Superior creations 4/20
—Dreaming about fibres 5/22
—Fire, seeds & parrots 6/24
—Gecko guff [Letter] 7/6
—Native or not? 7/24
—Attack of the sapsuckers 8/24
—Flutter by, butterfly 9/24
—Dune wars 10/24
—City of frogs 11/24
—Eastward bound 12/22
LOWE, K. [Answer to] Bird-of-paradise flies 1/78
—[Review of] Australia's wild islands 2/72
—[Answer to] Pied rat catcher 2/78
—[Answer to] Beach toothpaste? 2/78
—[Answer to] Waspish ways 2/78
—[Answer to] Beach toothpaste? 2/78
—[Answer to] Waspish ways 2/78
—[Answer to] Froglids 3/78
—[Answer to] Who chewed my tree? 3/79
—[Answer to] Herbivorous carnivore 4/79
—[Review of] Wild and free: Australia's natural world through the lens of Nicholas Birks 6/73
—[Review of] Australia's unique wildlife and Wildflowers of Western Australia 6/74
—[Answer to] Frog find 7/78
—[Review of] The best of Australian birds 9/76
LOWE, K.W. The dirt on ibis 4/26
LOY, T.H. Ice man 2/60
LYONS, A.(T.) Magpie maids 12/5
MACONACHIE, M. Caught in the ACT [Photoart] 11/70
MacPHERSON, J. Native pets [Letter] 10/4
MAJER, J. & RECHER, H. A tree alone 9/58
MAJOR, J. Frosty warning 5/11
—Tongue transfer 5/16
—Against the flow 6/12
—Why spice? 6/14
—Rainy weekends 7/16
—Spider silk production line? 7/18
—Magpie! Duck! 10/12
MAJOR, R. [Review of] Life in the tall eucalypt forest 12/78
MARCHANT, A. [Review of] Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters 9/78
MARRABLE, H. Cockroaches and disease [Letter] 6/5
MARTIN, A. Elusive hyphens [Letter] 1/5
—Bullfrog bull? [Letter] 8/4
—Anthropomorphism OK [Letter] 8/4
MARTIN, R. Land of the longtails 5/38
MATTHEWS, J. & B. Consuming passions 11/42
McEVEY, S. [Answer to] Human hybrids 8/78
—[Answer to] Harmless moths? 12/82
McGHEE, K. Seals boom, ecosystems bust 1/9
—NO2 smoking 1/10
—The Neanderthal's nose 1/14
—Why Emperors huddle 1/16
—Tragedy written in stone 2/6
—The nutcracker street? 2/16
—Whales' tongue trick 3/9
—Cheating choughs 3/11
—Embalming the very ancient 4/8
—Cetacean battle scars 4/9
—A storm in the Platypus brain 4/13
—Musical sands 4/14
—Penis fencing 5/9
—Tell-tail lizards 5/16
—Basking cases 6/11
—No head-butts about it 6/11
—Sex shells 6/16
—Aye-Ayes look for a break 7/10
—Debunking the Barbie myth 7/11
—Seafood chain reaction 8/6
—Skin-breathing mammals 8/9
—Hoverflies dress for the occasion 8/15
—Stowaway lizards on the XPT 8/16
—Fungus-farming pharmacists 9/8
—The attraction of symmetry 9/15
—Empty seeds 9/16
—Turn off the night light 10/10
—Dress sense for snakes 10/14
—Veils for spider brides 10/17
—Baby bird begging 11/10
—Borneo fruit falls 11/15
—The cost of a big open mouth 11/17
—Fat-bellied sex for food 12/6
—When worlds collide 12/15
—Cautious cricket callers 12/16
McGROUTHER, M. [Review of] Secrets of the ocean realm 7/73
—[Review of] Fiordland underwater: New Zealand's hidden wilderness 8/72
—[Review of] Australian seafood handbook: domestic species 8/74
—[Answer to] Elephant Fish 10/82
McILWEE, A. Northern Bettong 6/22
McKENZIE, B. Blue blood and aristocrats [Letter] 2/4
McNAMARA, G. Twisting the night away 1/42
—The big chill 5/54
—[Review of] The invisible universe 10/77
McNAMARA, K. Peter Pan meets Godzilla 4/22
McNAUGHT, R.H. Freak storms not so freak [Letter] 10/4
MILLEDGE, G. [Answer to] Winter spiders 12/82
MILLER, P. Cockroaches and disease [Reply to Letter] 6/5
MONTEITH, G. Wingless Dung Beetle 7/22
MORAN, D. Aboriginal isolation? [Letter] 1/4
MORGAN, G. [Review of] A natural history of Australia 3/72
—[Review of] Wizards of Oz 10/76
MORRIS, S. & ADAMCZEWSKA, A. Red Crabs on the run 2/44
MORRISON, R.G.B. Will the real Easter Bilby please stand up? [Letter] 2/5
—Easter Bilby origins [Letter] 7/6
MOSKWA, A. Which century? [Letter] 11/4
MUNDAY, P.L. Changing sex 11/50
MURPHY, J. Wild pets [Letter] 12/4
NATURE FOCUS. The art of rocks [Photoart] 7/64
NORMAN, T. [Review of] The perils of progress: the health and environment hazards of modern technology & what you can do about them 2/73
NORMAN, M. Riveting sex in the giant squids 5/24
NORRIS, S. Sexy sparrows 3/17
OLSEN, P. Good parenting Peregrine style 2/28
—Norfolk Island Boobook 5/20
—Winged pirates 6/30
—Anthropomorphism [Letter] 7/4
OTWAY, N. Grey Nurse Shark 12/20
PARKER, A. [Answer to] Coloured frogs 9/82
PATTERSON, B.D. Lion with a sore tooth 12/12
PETERSEN, D. Freedom of speech [Letter] 3/5
PETTERSON, J. Creation vs evolution [Letter] 4/4
PETZL, J. Creation 'scientist' bashing [Letter] 2/4
PLUNKETT-COLE, N. [Review of] Saving our natural heritage? The role of science in managing Australia's ecosystems 3/74
POGONOSKI, J. [Review of] Australian marine life: the plants and animals of temperate waters 12/76
PORTELLI, D. Peregrines not people [Letter] 5/5
—Anthropomorphism still not OK [Letter] 10/5
PREKER, M. Raising boobies 5/28
PRIDDEL, D. & CARLILE, N. Reclaiming a petrel's paradise 4/60
PROSKE, U. Keeping testicles cool 2/14
PROSSER, G. [Review of] A long walk in the Australian bush 4/73
PYKE, G.H. Green and Golden Bell Frog 4/50
QUINN, D.-L. [Answer to] Spider amputee 9/82
—Good things come in tall packages 11/7
RICHARDS, J., COPLEY, P. & MORRIS, K. The Wopilkara's return 12/52
RICHARDS, J. & SHORT, J. Banded Hare-wallaby 10/22
RICHARDS, S. Some lizards like it both ways 3/16
—Mudskippers: BYO air 4/13
—Frog bubble nests 5/10
—A tale of two tigers 6/6
—Sunfish flaps and female choice 6/10
—Tadpole schools 6/12
—Indonesian coelacanth 7/18
—Why do birds fly in Vs? 8/15
—Malarial manipulators 9/11
RICHARDS, T. Tsunami backfire? [Letter] 7/5
RICHARDS, T.W. Bird talk [Letter] 3/5
RITCHIE, A. [Review of] Life: an unauthorised biography. A natural history of the first 4,000,000,000 years of life on Earth 1/73
ROBERTS, R.'B.' Grains of truth? 3/44
—& SMITH, M. Time matters [Letter] 12/4
ROBINSON, M. [Review of] Nature sounds of Australia 1/72
—[Review of] Australian birds: a collection of paintings and drawings 1/74
—[Review of] Emperor: the magnificent penguin 3/72
—[Review of] BBC Wildlife Videos: 'Wolf', 'Leopard', 'Humpbacked Whales', 'Crocodile', 'Eagle' and 'Polar Bear' 3/73
—[Review of] Handbook of birds, cages & aviaries: the complete guide to keeping and housing pet and aviary birds 3/74
—[Answer to] Dead crabs? 3/78
—[Review of] Reptiles & frogs of the Australian Capital Territory 4/72
—[Review of] Caring for Australian wildlife: a practical guide to the management of sick, injured and orphaned native animals 5/72
—[Answer to] Only skin deep 7/78
—[Answer to] Exploding beetle 8/78
—[Review of] Wildlife of Australia 9/76
—[Answer to] Mulga nests 10/82
ROGERS, C. Port Jackson Sharks 10/26
ROWLANDS, P. What's good about garlic breath? 1/14
—Cicadas primed for survival 2/7
—Perfume or poison? 2/10
—Firefly femmes fatales 3/10
—Hot worms on record 4/9
—Termites and moth balls 6/6
—Seals 'see' with whiskers 6/7
—Bear spray 7/9
RUDMAN, B. [Review of] A guide to squid, cuttlefish and octopuses of Australia 11/77
RUNCIE, M. Adventures at possum rock 8/30
RUSSEL, R.C. Mosquitoes 7/38
SADLIER, R. [Review of] Goannas: the biology of varanid lizards 9/76
SAINTY, G. Wingecarribee Swamp—gone! 5/80
SAUNDERS, J. [Answer to] Death indoors 12/82
SCANLON, J.D. Former expats [Letter] 6/5
SCHAFER, P. Sleepy Lizard [Letter] 9/6
SCHLUTER, L. Move over Smokey the Bear 9/14
—Let them eat leaves 10/18
SEEBACHER, F. Crocodiles as dinosaurs 11/60
SEYMOUR, J. & SUTHERLAND, P.A. Box jellies 12/32
SHEA, G. Backyard blue-tongues 3/30
—[Answer to] Black blue-tongue 6/78
SHEMESH, J. Woodwork 1/64
SHERBROOKE, W. Hot Blue Bellies? 2/13
—Thorny Devils and horny toads 6/54
—Conservation through knowledge, or not? [Reply to Letter] 7/7
SIRCOMBE, K. Gold Coast chills? 7/26
SLATER, R. Billabongs [Photoart] 3/64
SMITH, A.W. Pests, plagues & people 9/84
SMITH, D. [Review of] Australian ants: their biology and identification 9/77
SMITH, K. Long live whale strandings [Letter] 6/4
SMITH, S. Banded burrowers 6/38
SMITHERS, C. [Answer to] Wandering wanderers 11/82
SOUTH, B. [Review of] Wisdom from the Earth: the living legacy of the Aboriginal Dreamtime 1/73
SPIELMAN, D. More on Aborigines and ticks [Letter] 3/6
STODART, E. Easter Bilby for all [Letter] 9/6
SULLIVAN, R. Plants talk 2/8
—Stuffed wasps 3/13
—Hot and cold dino debate 3/14
—Baboons fake it 4/15
—Roman false teeth 5/6
—Dinosaur's supersonic tail 5/8
—Cuckoo's secret 5/11
—Novel way to track a python 5/14
—Plastic perils for Platypus 5/16
—Beetlemania 6/10
—Overkill or underkill? 6/14
—Hornbills feast and fly 6/17
—The king's poo 7/13
—Opposites attract 7/16
—Light suckers 8/7
—Life on a diet of cold jelly 8/11
—New look for long-necked dinos 8/12
—Reptile buzz words 8/14
—Highbrow Chimps 9/10
—Badges of fatherly pride 9/14
—The tickle paradox 10/14
—Cuttlefish do it in drag 10/16
—Sound shift for Sage Grouse 11/14
—Emerald origins cracked 12/7
—Dinosaur pack hunters 12/14
SUMMERELL, B. [Review of] Fungi of southern Australia 2/73
SUNNUCKS, P. Conservation myths [Letter] 7/5
SUTHERLAND, L. Pumice puzzles 9/66
—[Review of] Gem minerals of Victoria 4/72
SUTHERLAND, L. (Jr) Tropical waters [Photoart] 12/70
SWEEDMAN, P. [Review of] Dawn till dusk: in the Stirling and Porongurup Ranges 6/72
TAAFFE, G. [Review of] Field guide to the orchids of New South Wales and Victoria 12/ 77
TACON, P. Magical paintings of the Kimberley 3/40
TAGGART, D., RESIDE, J. & MARTIN, R. Chasing Shadows 7/30
TAYLOR, A. Automatic recognition of frog calls 9/38
TAYLOR, B. Conservation through knowledge, or not? [Letter] 7/7
THOMAS, A. Disease fit for a king? 1/8
—Monkey mates foil foe 1/12
—Turtles with a one-track mind 1/13
—Poison pairs 1/16
—Stiff wrap for armadillo 2/7
—Lizard's liquid lunch 3/11
—Paydirt for parrots 5/6
—Snails' agony and ecstasy 5/12
—Frogs' legs in hot water 5/14
—Polar gender benders 6/8
—Birds' navigational nightmare 6/9
—Kiwi killers play frisbee 6/15
—Light-fingered sponges 6/18
—'Fairy' penguins? 7/8
—Bee's swan sting 7/17
—Pollution's true colours 8/11
—Killer willies 8/12
—Cherry cures 9/8
—Mating by proxy 9/12
—Ants in your plants 10/15
—Penguins' faith in leaps 11/9
—Sticky fingers save lives 11/12
—Methuselahs of the deep 12/12
THOMPSON, G., WITHERS, P. & SEYMOUR, R. Blind diggers in the desert 11/26
TORR, G. Egg-dumping bugs 1/10
—Tusked Frogs 1/50
—Leaf-eating frog 1/13
TRAINOR, C. Carpentarian Rock-rat 1/20
TRELOAR, A. [Answer to] Water down the gurgler 4/78
TREWICK, S. Kakapo: the paradoxical parrot 3/54
TRIGGS, B. [Answer to] Mystery poo 4/78
VALE, A. Floods and Platypuses [Letter] 8/5
VAN DYCK, S. Wattle we call this Claytonsbird? 1/18
—Rapt in cellophane dragons 2/18
—Things that go crunch in the night 3/18
—New Holland Mouse 3/48
—Coots in the quick lane 4/16
—Worms to make the earth move 5/18
—Greys hot in the long-jump steaks 6/20
—Have warts'will travel 7/20
—Peewee potterings 8/20
—Native wildlife off the menu [Reply to Letter] 9/5
—KFC with a kick 9/20
—A coil to account 10/20
—The happy hooker? 11/20
—Masks, high heels and spurs! 12/18
VANDERDUYS, E. Tsunami hype [Letter] 3/6
WATSON, K. Australian elephants? [Letter] 6/5
WEBB, G. [Answer to] Opals 11/82
WEEKS, P. Earwax: food for thought? 2/12
WESTAWAY, M. Aborigines and ticks [Letter] 1/6
WESTON, M.A. Stilt ID [Letter] 5/4
WHITE, P. & ANDERSON, A. A first for Norfolk 6/26
WHITE, T. Carnivorous herbivores [Letter] 1/5
—Pollen-eating spiders [Letter] 7/5
WHITEHEAD, P. & DAWSON, T. Let them eat grass! 8/46
WILLETTS, N. Human nature [Letter] 7/6
WILLIAMS, E. Bountiful Foxes [Letter] 2/4
WILLIAMS, P. Potoroo rediscovery [Letter] 9/7
WILLIAMS, S. Armchair explorer [Letter] 4/5
WILLIS, P. Burying burrowing origin for snakes 11/18
—& DOLLIN, A. Paint-pilfering bees 2/6
WILSON, N. Peach Myrtle 11/22
WILSON, R. Possums in the spotlight 4/34
WINKEL, P. Proserpine Rock-wallaby 3/20
—Bold eagle 10/34
WOOD, E. Native pets [Letter] 10/4
WROE, S. The bird from hell? 7/56
—Move over sabre-tooth tiger 10/44
—[Review of] The last Tasmanian tiger: the history and extinction of the Thylacine 12/77
YATES, B. Ambergris [Letter] 7/6
ZBOROWSKI, P. Moths [Photoart] 4/64
ZOLA, H. UV eyes? [Letter] 7/5
