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Science immortalised in cartoon

1 02 2013

Well, this is a first for me (us).

I’ve never had a paper of ours turned into a cartoon. The illustrious and brilliant ‘First Dog on the Moon‘ (a.k.a. Andrew Marlton) who is chief cartoonist for Australia’s irreverent ‘Crikey‘ online news magazine just parodied our Journal of Animal Ecology paper No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multispecies metamodels that I wrote about a last month here on ConservationBytes.com.

Needless to say, I’m chuffed as a chuffed thing.

Enjoy!

Stripey

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Tags: Australia, cartoon, Crikey, First Dog on the Moon, Journal of Animal Ecology, population viability analysis, Thylacine, University of Adelaide
Categories : Australia, conservation, decline, disease, extinction, extinction vortex, habitat loss, harvest, kangaroo, population dynamics, population viability analysis, PVA


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