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Sean Tomlinson, Research Associate, Ecology and Evolution, University of Adelaide

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

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To a newly-arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise.

This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of European wolves or bears that usually kept fox numbers in check.

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