This is not a quoll. This is a quokka innocently annoying a tawny frogmouth. The tawny frogmouth ended up flying away in the end, leaving the quokka completely dumbfounded.
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This is not a quoll. It is a sooty owl called Thor from Caversham Wildlife Park.
I’d have waited longer to publish this except Wikipedia wanted it on the web before i put the picture into Wikipedia Commons. It’s a good feeling when you come across an article on Wikipedia which has no image and you think hang on, i took a half-decent picture of one of those today…
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This is not a quoll, but it is warm-blooded. This is a fairy penguin or little penguin. It is the smallest of all the penguins and it is local to my part of the world.
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This is not a quoll. It is a tawny frogmouth.
Something odd and unexpected yet interesting happened in this photo.
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This is not a quoll. It’s an emu and it’s coming right for me. This emu was quite friendly though and ate delicately out of my hand. Not what you’d expect from Australia’s largest bird? Then you’ve never met one.
The Noongar word for emu is wetj and the emu figures fairly prominently in a local indigenous origin story, Moondang-Ak Kaaradjiny. The emu also features on the Australian coat of arms, and, together with the kangaroo with which it shares the coat of arms, tastes delicious on pizza.