A creator of quollity stuff.
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyuromorph. It is a numbat. Sometimes it stands up. Numbats, like chuditches and bilbies, used to range all the way across Australia until the foxes and feral cats came. Now their populations are isolated to a few areas in south-western Australia. Perth Zoo, where this photograph was taken, ran a successful breeding programme to assist the recovery of numbat populations in the wild.
Some of my recent photographs were posted in black and white. This is because they were taken in the Nocturnal House at Perth Zoo where they use a lot of red lighting. If i’d left the colour in, it would have looked very red. The low-light grain looks better without colour getting in the way.
For those who are interested, they were all photographed using a f/1.4 50mm prime lens on manual focus (too dark for autofocus to work nicely), aperture set at 1.4-2.8, shutter between 1/20 and 1/40 sec, ISO on automatic but generally around 6400. Flashes are not permitted in the nocturnal house and i dislike using the flash anyway.
This is not a quoll. This is a tawny frogmouth, not at all a kind of owl. It looks perturbed.
This is a chuditch or western quoll. His name is Charlie and he lives in the Nocturnal House at Perth Zoo. I took literally hundreds of pictures of Charlie while he wasn’t resting in his hollow quoll log but many of them contain only quoll-shaped blurs.
This is a northern quoll. It looks very curious about something.