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Wildlife research

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The first work in CSIRO on wildlife was on the control of the rabbit, and this work still continues. But many other animals regarded as pests have also been investigated, from the Tasmanian waterhen to the kangaroo. Not all research has been devoted to pests, however, and recently the division has been pursuing an increasing amount of research on native fauna for its own sake.

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Frith, H. Wildlife research. Nature 261, 637–639 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261637a0

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