 The area inhabited by each individual does not appear to vary with gender or age of the animal.A study of the species population in response to historical and modern practices of fire management was conducted in Victoria in the 1970s, excluding surveys of the western and southern Australian occurrences which were still presumed to be extinct.Alterations to fire management practices and susceptibility of degraded habitat to larger burns is thought to have drastically reduced local populations by increasing the intensity and extent of fire events, replacing historical mosaics of regenerated patches with broad and hot burns that were unsuitable to re-colonisation by this species.