Technology is helping scientists to get a more accurate estimate of spotted-tailed quoll numbers.
abc.net.au/news/spotted-tailed-quoll-back-local-extinction-tablelands-far-north/101802428A secretive native animal feared to have nearly vanished from Queensland's Atherton Tablelands has surprised and delighted researchers in promising numbers.
A 2020 by James Cook University study found that quolls had completely disappeared from parts of their former range in the Wet Tropics and had declined to very low numbers in areas such as the Atherton Tablelands. "You just can't expect someone coming from Brisbane or Townsville to do one month of research and come back with a pattern of population numbers just in a month."The AQC team records the quolls by strategically placing non-invasive motion-sensor cameras around the national park behind low-hanging lures.Two juvenile spotted-tailed quolls check out a lure on the Atherton Tablelands.
"We [JCU] have another estimate coming out next year, so it will be interesting to compare the numbers then."
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