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Antone Martinho-Truswell

Antone Martinho-Truswell

Antone Martinho-Truswell is a zoologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a research affiliate of the University of Sydney.

Inside or out? What to do with Australia’s cats?

Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one

It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell

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An ibis, derisorily known as a “bin chicken”, in inner city Redfern.

From nuisance to mascot, the true history of Sydney’s bin chicken

The much-derided white ibis wasn’t always a city-slicker. But now it calls Sydney home, a rare case of a metropolis being the saviour of a threatened species.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell
History worth reviving: the tram on Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, in 1946 and Venice’s famed bell tower, the Campanile of St Mark, which collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt by 1912.

Sydney’s surprise resemblance to Venice has a lesson for us all

Venice’s brutal modernisers did not want to rebuild their collapsed bell tower. The city persevered, as should Sydney with its long-lost people movers, the trams.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell
Antone Martinho-Truswell, a zoologist, evolutionary biologist and midlife cyclist in his Bay Run habitat. 

I’m a zoologist who cycles in Sydney, and I’ve had a stroke of genus

It’s a sad day when Pedestrianus obliviata collides with Cyclospinus rex.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell