Estuaries serve as important nursery habitats for several coastal fishery species. The successful recruitment of larvae and early juveniles into estuaries is paramount population persistence maintenance. Several factors have been proposed stimuli that could elicit a response in estuary-associated fish Larvae may trace land-based cues back to an estuary by following the olfactory concentration g...

Ventilation in resting, unrestrained Boa constrictor, Python regius and Thanmophis s. sirtalis was monitored using various combinations of a closed Kopfkappe (head chamber), intratracheal pressure catheters, strain gauges around the trunk, and a flow meter connected to one of the nostrils. Records of intratracheal pressure with and without closing the Kopfkappe show that the latter device induc...

Scales from hatchery-reared, stocked and wild mulloway Argyrosomus japonicus (Temminck and Schlegel) captured in the Georges River, and a library of mulloway scales from coastal New South Wales, were examined for the presence of scale checks. Checks specific for hatchery-reared fish were present in 100% of recaptured hatchery-reared mulloway; the origin of which was confirmed by the presence of...

The non-profit organisation the Good Law Project has been given go ahead to mount a High Court challenge UK government’s decision award contracts Abingdon Health produce rapid antibody tests for covid-19. The Department of and Social Care England bought million lateral flow test kits from Rapid Testing Consortium, group manufacturers led by assembled John Bell, regius professor medicine at Oxf...

Behavioral thermoregulation is an important mechanism allowing ectotherms to respond to thermal variations. Its efficiency might become imperative for securing activity budgets under future climate change. For diurnal lizards, thermal microhabitat variability appears to be of high importance, especially in hot deserts where vegetation is highly scattered and sensitive to climatic fluctuations. ...