❓ A parliamentary question regarding the deaths of two southern brush-tailed phascogales near a quarry site. The response provides information on the species' home range and distances, but is unable to answer the question about the road due to lack of clarity.
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I refer to question without notice 185 of 19 September 2002, on the mortality of two southern brush-tailed phascogales, or wambengers, now at the Western Australian Museum. (1) What is considered to be the normal home range movement of this species? (2) What was the distance between the quarry site and the site of each of the wambenger deaths? (3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(1) What is considered to be the normal home range movement of this species? (2) What was the distance between the quarry site and the site of each of the wambenger deaths? (3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(2) What was the distance between the quarry site and the site of each of the wambenger deaths? (3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(1) What is considered to be the normal home range movement of this species? (2) What was the distance between the quarry site and the site of each of the wambenger deaths? (3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(2) What was the distance between the quarry site and the site of each of the wambenger deaths? (3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(3) What is the distance between the road and the location of the second dead wambenger? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
I thought my portfolios contained all the unpronounceable names! I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
I thank the member for some notice of this question, which I will answer on behalf of the Minister for Housing and Works. (1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(1) The recorded home range for adult female brush-tailed phascogales in the south west of Western Australia is between 20 and 70 hectares. It is slightly larger for males. The territories of some males overlap those of several females while females have home ranges that are discrete from other females. A home range of 20 hectares equates to a circle with a radius of 252 meters while a home range of 70 hectares has a radius of 472 metres. (2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(2) The straight-line distance from the centre of the property on which the quarry is located to the site where the phascogale was collected on 20 December 2001 is approximately 1 000 metres. The straight-line distance to the animal collected on 7 January 2002 was approximately 3 850 metres. (3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
(3) It is not clear which road the honourable member refers to in her question; therefore, I cannot provide an answer.
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