Gordon Grigg enjoyed a career as an academic zoologist who managed to
spend a lot of time working in the field. Apart from interests in
crocodylians that go back to 1971, he studied thermoregulatory biology
of free-ranging echidnas and platypus in Australias high country, and
flew aerial surveys of kangaroo populations for nearly 30 years. His
PhD came from a study of fish biology at the University of Oregon. He
then had 20 years on the academic staff at the University of Sydney
followed by 20 years at the University of Queensland where he is now an
Emeritus Professor. (A well balanced career!) His primary research
interests are in vertebrate zoology, particularly their physiology,
ecology and evolution and he has authored or co-authored about 200
peer-reviewed publications, about one quarter of which are on
crocodylians. Today we talk about crocodylians.
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