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Zoology is the study of animal life – how animals are built, how they work, how they behave, their evolutionary relationships, how they interact with other animals, plants and organisms, and the physical environment.

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School of Zoology Research Groups
ZooTube
Clips from our conservation research.

"Automatic cameras watching an echidna burrow."
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Research Project

  • Work independently on your own research project!
    KZA304 is for high-achieving 3rd year undergrads who want to experience practical science. KZA304...find out more



Excursions - semester 1, 2011

KZA211 - Fortescue Bay,
2nd yr Zoology field trip

KZA 356 - Marine Ecology -
Maria Island Field Trip




Postgraduate Research - Positions AvailableQuoll

These and other projects are on offer: These and other projects are on offer:
    • Monotreme Reproduction and Mating Systems
    • Evolutionary history of freshwater fishes and crustaceans of southeast Australia: conservation, genetics, and geology
    • Evolution of antipredator mechanisms in pufferfishes and their allies

Projects and supervisors

Enquiries to the Postgraduate coordinator


Volunteers Wanted in 2012...
Work with devils in the field

DFTD is a fatal condition that affects Tasmanian devils. We are working to understand the disease.



Graduate Bytes

Read about Zoology graduate studentsLaura Brooks


Publications

Evolution of parental effects. Editors:Erik Wapstra et al.

"The Fauna of Tasmania" "Rediscovering Recherche Bay"