This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a pair of southern hairy-nosed wombats. This species of wombat is the only extant member of Vombatiformes (koalas and wombats) to be found natively in Western Australia – and even then only just.
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. FINALLY. This is a southern hairy-nosed wombat.
I think we can all agree that’s about all the non-marsupials (let alone non-dasyurids let alone non-quolls) that one quoll-centric blog requires for the time being. So it’s time to leave the Armadale Reptile Centre for something fuzzier.
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.
This is not a quoll, obviously. This is a southern hairy-nosed wombat.