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1. Why Count Animals? Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley  Part I Excess  The Man from Menindie – D.H. Souter  2. Cane Toads as Sport: Conservation Practice and Animal Ethics at Odds Libby Robin  3. Taking locust country Andrea Gaynor  4. On the Ant Frontier: Ontological conflict with Iridomyrmex humilis in post-war Sydney Adam Gall  5. A Swarm of Sheep: Colonizing the Esperance Bioregion Nicole Chalmer  Part II Abundance  Life Hath its Charms  6. Optimism Unlimited: Prospects for the Pearl-Shell, Bêche-de-Mer and Trochus Industries on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, 1860-1940 Rohan Lloyd  7. Swamplands: Human-Animal Relationships in Place Emily O’Gorman  8. ‘Pain for Animals. Profit for People’: The Campaign Against Live Sheep Exports’ Gonzalo Villanueva Part III Equilibrium The Ento(M)-uscian – Emma Carmody  9. "Cunning, intractable, destructive animals": Pigs as co-colonisers in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1840 - 60 Nancy Cushing  10. Wine worlds are animal worlds, too: Native Australian animal vine feeders and interspecies relations in the ecologies that host vineyards Julie McIntyre  11. Defending nature: Animals and militarised landscapes in Australia Ben Wilkie Part IV Scarcity Homecoming (Alpine Strata) – Emma Carmody  12. A Slow Catastrophe? Fishing for Sport and Commerce in Colonial Victoria David Harris  13. The Palatability of Pests: Redfin in the Murray-Darling Basin Jodi Frawley Part V Extinction ‘Tis the Last Fly of Summer  14. After None: Memorialising animal species extinction through monuments Dolly Jørgensen