CAU/UTas
Philip Bethge: Scientific Publications

  • Bethge P, Munks S, Otley H, Nicol S (2004) Platypus Burrow Temperatures at a Subalpine Tasmanian Lake. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 125: 273-276 (PDF-File)

  • Bethge P, Munks S, Otley H, Nicol S (2003) Diving behaviour, dive cycles and aerobic dive limit in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 136/4: 799-809 (PDF-File), Platypuses foraging in Lake Lea/Tasmania, mpg-movie)

  • Bethge P (2002) Energetics and foraging behaviour of the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Ph.D. Thesis University of Tasmania (PDF-file)

  • Bethge P, Munks S, Nicol S (2001) Energetics of foraging and locomotion in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 171/6: 497-506 (PDF-File)

  • Bethge P, Munks S, Nicol S, Otley H (2000). The use of data-loggers to determine behavioural activity in the platypus. In: Munks S, Nicol S (eds) Current research on the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus in Tasmania: Abstracts from the 1999 'Tasmanian Platypus Workshop'. Australian Mammalogy (PDF-File)

  • Bethge P, Nicol S, Munks S (2000). Platypus energetics: What is the cost of a dinner by candlelight? In: Munks S, Nicol S (eds) Current research on the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus in Tasmania: Abstracts from the 1999 'Tasmanian Platypus Workshop'. Australian Mammalogy (PDF-File)

  • Munks SA, Otley HM, Bethge P, Jackson J (2000). Reproduction, diet and daily energy expenditure of the platypus in a sub-alpine Tasmanian lake.
    In: Munks S, Nicol S (eds) Current research on the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus in Tasmania: Abstracts from the 1999 'Tasmanian Platypus Workshop'. Australian Mammalogy (PDF-File)

  • Bethge, P., S.C. Nicol, B. Culik, R. Wilson (1997) Diving behaviour and energetics in breeding Little Penguins Eudyptula minor. Journal of Zoology London 242: 483-502 (PDF-File, Little Penguin swimming in water canal, mpg-movie)

Awards & Prizes
  • "Annette Barthelt"-award for marine science for work on the Little Penguin (1995)
  • Scholarship holder of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Hochschulsonderprogramm III), University of Tasmania Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship
  • Placed on the University of Tasmania's Dean's Commendation Award 2002 for an "outstanding Doctoral theses" on the platypus (PDF-file)

Conferences
  • 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria, August 1994
  • ANZSCPB, 15th Annual Meeting, Perth, December 1998
  • Tasmanian Platypus Meeting, Hobart, Tasmania, Mai 1999
  • Australien Mammal Society Conference 1999, Hawkesbury NSW, July 1999

ANZSCPB Membership