in 1984 Animals bearing his name Fleay's barred frog (Mixophyes fleayi) the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (Aquala audax fleayii), a separate sub-species identified by Fleay Publications We Breed the Platypus (1944) Gliders of the gum trees: the most beautiful and enchanting Australian marsupials (1947) Talking of Animals (1956, reprinted 1960) Living with Animals (1960) Nightwatchmen of Bush and Plain (1968) Paradoxical Platypus (1980) Looking at Animals (1981) photographs featured in E. Byrne's The Unique Animals of Australia (1961) Extensive writing as a newspaper columnist on natural history topics Scientific papers including in The Victorian Naturalist, The Australian Zoologist, Walkabout and Wild Life References External links David Fleay Wildlife Park David Fleay's 1945–46 Tasmanian Tiger Expedition 1907 births 1993 deaths Australian ornithologists Australian naturalists Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire Members of the Order of Australia Australian nature writers People from Ballarat 20th-century Australian zoologists People educated at Ballarat Grammar School Australian environmentalists