This is not a quoll, though it is very close. It is a Tasmanian devil.
Look at that face. That is quite a face.
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This is a chuditch. Nobody i know calls them western quolls so i won’t bother anymore. This is Charlie from Perth Zoo, to my knowledge the only chuditch on display in the Perth metropolitan area despite being the least threatened species of quoll in mainland Australia. Go fig.
Happily, chuditches have started turning up on the Swan Coastal Plain again. This bodes somewhat well for their recovery back into their former territory, and this post on its capture and release is worth checking out if only to see a chuditch in colour. And looking mighty peeved.
I’ve left just enough colour in these pictures so you can see some of the pinkness in the nose and ears.
If you can see this my holidays are nearly over.
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This is not a quoll but it is a dasyuromorph. It is a numbat, a termite-scoffing predator with a pouch now confined to small pockets of the south-west of Australia for the usual reasons – habitat loss and introduced species which predate on it.
Numbats are the faunal emblem of Western Australia but unlike the faunal emblems of the entire country they’re in no danger of being eaten on a pizza.
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This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a southern hairy nosed wombat, the only species of wombat present in Western Australia and, even then, it’s only in the extreme south-east and not in the south-west bit where i live.
At the wombat enclosure i encountered a talkative lady from New Zealand who asked if Australia would be kind enough to take back all the possums in NZ at the moment. (They are an introduced pest species over there but a protected native species over here.) I suggested if they could convince the UK to repatriate all the bloody foxes and rabbits in Australia back to their country of origin we might have a deal.
On reflection, perhaps that was a bit sarcastic.
There was a giant carnivorous prehistoric relative of the wombat called the thylacoleo. We prefer to call it the nombat.
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These are not quolls, though they are marsupials. They are wild western grey kangaroos living in Whiteman Park in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.
The reason these photos are not so great has a lot to do with the habits of kangaroos in general – wild roos are crepuscular and boing away if you get too close. Also, i need a longer lens if i’m going to try photography and bushwalking.
But hey, there’s wild kangaroos living 15 minutes from my house. 🙂