These are not quolls but they are marsupials. Here we have western grey kangaroos, which are the native kangaroo species around Perth where I live.
They are too small to ride to school so we have to hitch emus up to rickshaws instead.
you all need a picture of an antechinus (australian bush mouse) in my friend’s toaster
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid. It is an antechinus, a creature most infamously known for having so much sex that it dies of exhaustion. Hopefully that’s not what it’s doing in that toaster.
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. 🙂
I was texture painting and I didn’t know what I was doing and suddenly this happened. It is a weird quoll-derived neo-cubist thing and I don’t even.
I’ve been looking into the open source paint program Krita this week – learning hotkeys, tailoring the UI, how to tweak presets and generally use the thing. It looks really good.
I’m spending most of this month away from Blender polishing up my drawing skills. I presently owe my sketchbook six pages of attempts at drawing six different hands from “Cartoon Animation”. Better hop to it.
NUMBATS!
Infraclass: Marsupialia —> Order: Dasyuromorphia —> Family: Myrmecobiidae
Okay, numbats are actually super cool. For starters, there is only one species left (Myrmecobius fasciatus), and only one subspecies, at that (M. f. fasciatus). It’s restricted to several small populations – two colonies in Western Australia, and some in South Australia and New South Wales after successful re-introductions.
Now, check out its super cool tongue. Like other animals that display a long, sticky tongue like that, the numbat eats mostly termites – and that’s how it gets its nickname, the marsupial anteater. Unlike other marsupials, numbats are diurnal, so are most active during the day.
But the coolest thing, I think, is how they have extra teeth! Unique to terrestrial mammals, numbats have an extra cheek tooth between their molars and premolars – but it’s unknown whether this is a retained juvenile tooth, or something else.
And also, they’re just very pretty marsupials. Love them, they’re magnificent.
Not quolls but numbats, so quite like quolls. 🙂