Description: Supports best practice research methods and helps to navigate animal care approval processes.
Brief description:
Dr Bradley P. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at Central Queensland University. For the past 15 years he has been conducting research relating to the behaviour, cognition and management of captive, domestic and wild animals, as well as the intersections between humans and wildlife.
Review Quotes:
"A remarkable and complete guide for planning and conducting wildlife research in Australia and for Australian researchers completing studies in other countries. [...] It is not a book that will sit on a shelf gathering dust, rather it will be lying open where it can be easily and readily consulted as needed."
Dave Fleming, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 6 April 2023
"From crocodiles to wombats, numbats to venomous fish, and all in between, the species profiles are an excellent resource, with information on biology, handling and veterinary considerations such as sedation techniques, sample collection or euthanasia. Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods is an invaluable tool for researchers, teachers, students, animal ethics committee members and organisations participating in wildlife research and other activities with wildlife."
Wildlife Health Australia, 31 August 2022