This is not a quoll, but it is a quoll’s log and that might be eastern quoll fur.

Yeah, not really the same.

The big disappointment on my quolliday was not being able to get a photo of the black eastern quoll at Peel Zoo. The keepers explain that he’s usually awake for breakfast, potters around for a bit, then goes back to sleep. Unfortunately that day he went to sleep underneath a big pile of plants where he couldn’t be seen. This is forgivable since quolls are nocturnal animals, but still.

For the ten seconds i did see him, the bars of his enclosure completely defeated my camera’s usually reliable autofocus. And then he was gone. I didn’t get another try.

Still, the internet can come to the rescue: here’s some eastern quolls in Tasmania, including black eastern quolls like the one they have at Peel Zoo.