This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid which makes it not a bloody mouse either. It’s a red-tailed phascogale, a mouse-sized marsupial predator and not a mouse. Mouse-sized. It’s like a little miniature quoll or something, definitely not a mouse. Ever.
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid. It is a red-tailed phascogale, a mouse-sized carnivorous marsupial from the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid. It is a red-tailed phascogale.
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyurid. It is a red-tailed phascogale. It is most certainly not a mouse.
This is not a quoll but it is a dasyuromorph. It is a red-tailed phascogale, a mouse-sized marsupial from the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia with a long bushy tail.
There are two kinds of phascogales, the red-tailed phascogale and the brush-tailed phascogale. Like many species of small carnivorous marsupials, when male phascogales come into season they go into a frenzy of non-stop mating which leads to their eventual death by exhaustion as their immune system shuts down. Female phascogales may survive as many as three mating seasons.