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Australia's mound building birds
Dr Ann Goeth introduces Mound-Builders, a book that she coauthored with Associate Professor Darryl Jones, that looks into the incubation mounds built by the Australian species of the megapodes, such as the Australian BrushTurkey.
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Mound building manoeuvres
The male brush turkey has ulterior motives for constructing a magnificent mound and usurping a rival's work is quite on the cards.
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Keep off the mound!
Male brush turkeys can be kept busy protecting their mounds from predators waiting to make a meal of emerging chicks.
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Mound breaking news on brush turkeys
Very little was known about how the chicks of mound building birds develop until Dr Ann Goeth’s 'mound breaking' Doctoral research.
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Meet the Megapodes and their most unusual family member
The Australian Mallee Fowl is unusual even for this quirky family of big footed birds.
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Males behaving very badly
Male and female brush turkeys both have one track minds - but they are very different tracks!
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Mound temperature and chick gender
The mound temperature influences the successful hatching of eggs containing male or female chicks differently
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