These are not quolls but they are dasyurids. They are fat-tailed dunnarts because it wouldn’t be a zoo visit without dunnarts.
Sadly they are in spooky sepia because their enclosure only has red lighting.
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These are not quolls but they are dasyurids. This is a ball of fat-tailed dunnarts. Apparently they come in balls now.
Sorry about the radio silence. All this moving house, getting settled in.. you know how it is. I did squeeze in a quick zoo trip today but didn’t get very many photos: the main light in the chuditch enclosure was out and I can only take so many photographs of Looking Upwards At Northern Quoll On Branch before I don’t even bother, and on top of that I’m nursing an exercised-too-vigorously-after-not-exercising-for-months type injury in the legs. So it goes. There will be other days. 🙂
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This is not a quoll but it is a dasyuromorph. It is a fat-tailed dunnart, a tiny mouse-like marsupial with huge eyes. This creature stores fat in its tail as an energy source, hence its name.
Like many dasyuromorphs, they are comparatively short-lived – their average lifespan is less than two years.
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This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid. It is a fat-tailed dunnart. Why it’s making that face i’ll never know.
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This is not a quoll, but it is a dasyurid. It is a fat-tailed dunnart. Its tail is not particularly fat today.