This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a common brushtail possum, beloved to anyone who hasn’t had to live with possums in their roof, going through their rubbish while camping, and the entire country of New Zealand where they’re an introduced pest.
I’ve been to the zoo and got some photos so I’m back posting creatures for a little while. 🙂
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a common brushtail possum. It is one of the few large-ish Australian mammals that has thrived in an urban environment.
Australian possums are not that closely related to the American opossums, though both groups are marsupials.
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. it is a golden brushtail possum trying to have a snooze in its possum log (pog).
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a chocolate common brushtail possum.
It’s a little-known fact* that possums can cook their food using beams of high-energy microwaves which they shoot from their eyes. This possum is heating up a stick insect.
(* This fact is little-known because it is a complete lie.)
This is not a quoll though it is a marsupial. It is a silver-grey common brushtail possum. My dad gets these in his roof.