This is a northern quoll. At Perth Zoo, this is the Quoll With No Name. He’s a male, about 18 months old.

The keeper told me that quolls can live for up to four and a half years in captivity. Then we picked out all the mistakes on the northern quoll’s information panel. There were a few of them:

• Northern quolls aren’t the only quoll species with no spots on their tail. Spotted-tailed quolls are the only species of quoll with spots on their tail.
• The zoological name for the northern quoll is not Dasyrus hallactus, it’s Dasyurus hallucatus
• Whether it’s the smelliest and most aggressive quoll or not, it’s not polite to say so.

They’ve since fixed the information panel, except the smelly and aggressive bit.