These are not quolls, but they are woylies so we can gladly make an exception. These joeys are Bert and Ernie, photographed three weeks after yesterday’s woylie images. Woylies are also known as brush-tailed bettongs and are critically endangered.
The Noongar word for woylie is walyo.
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a young woylie or brush-tailed bettong, a critically endangered potoroid now found in isolated pockets of Western Australia. Caversham Wildlife Park has a couple of woylies in their south-west section and this youngster was on display in their big dome during one of their “Meet the Animals” shows. The host rightly made a point of telling us we were very lucky to be able to see a woylie up close let alone at all because of how rare they’ve become.
I do harp on about quolls a lot but none of them are critically endangered like these guys are.
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It is a woylie or brush-tailed bettong, a critically endangered potoroid with a depressingly familiar history (once common all across the country, now restricted to south-west Australia due to fox predation, habitat loss, etc). You’ll have to take my word for it about the brush tail because i managed to take this photograph with a tree branch obscuring the brush – you can just see the black tip of its tail on the other side of the tree.
This is not a quoll but it is a marsupial. It’s a woylie, a macropod like a kangaroo. If you are in the Perth area and want to see something extremely cute, Caversham Wildlife Park has baby woylies.