Seabird foraging success is crucial for individual survival and therefore also for recruitment, breeding success, and population stability. However, there is limited information on the movements of juvenile seabirds, including penguins. This study investigates the foraging range of juvenile yellow-eyed penguins from Enderby Island, in the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, and their overlap with protected areas where commercial f...

The kākāpō is a critically endangered flightless parrot which suffers from exudative cloacitis, a debilitating disease resulting in inflammation of the vent margin or cloaca. Despite this disease emerging over 20 years ago, the cause of exudative cloacitis remains elusive. We used total RNA sequencing and metatranscriptomic analysis to characterise the infectome of lesions and cloacal swabs from nine kākāpō affected with exuda...

In integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent (iDDC) modelling, a critical component is the statistical relationship between habitat suitability and local population sizes. This study explores this relationship in two Enyalius lizard species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: the high‐elevation E. iheringii and low‐elevation E. catenatus and how this transformation affects spatiotemporal demographic inference. Mos...

Understanding how bovine tuberculosis (TB) is maintained in wildlife reservoirs is critical for the management of this disease impacting cattle in many countries. For the primary wildlife reservoir of the disease in New Zealand, the brushtail possum ( Trichosurus vulpecula ), transmission of this contagious bacterial disease among possums is often assumed to be linked to home range overlap. Identifying drivers of possum home r...