First catch your koala! Use of a trap to capture koalas Phascolarctos cinereus for ecological studies
Motohiro Hasegawa and Frank N. Camck
Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072
ABSTRACT
A trap to capture koalas, which can be deployed by one person, has been successfully trialled in an open forest in south-east Queensland. Nine adult koalas were captured in two trapping periods in 1993 and 1994. The use of this trap can increase the effectiveness of the capture of koalas for ecological studies.