Thank your mother for the rabbits: Bilbies, bunnies and redemptive ecology

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-378

  Smith, Nicholas ^a  

^a Pilbara Native Title Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bilby; Naturework; Rabbit; Totemism

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LAGOMORPH; LANDSCAPE; NATURE CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

MACROTIS; MACROTIS LAGOTIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 36448952751     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2006.010     Document Type: Article

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