#australian marsupials

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Chaeropus ecaudatus the Southern Pig–footed Bandicoot

Pig–footed bandicoots (genus Chaeropus) were so called because of their hooflike forefeet. They had relatively slender legs compared to other bandicoots, allowing them to move quickly through the landscape.

Although initially designated as a single species, Chaeropus yirratji was split from C. ecaudatus in 2019 on the basis of morphological differences. Both species became extinct by the 1950s due to habitat loss from land clearing for agriculture and predation from cats and foxes.

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Not quite a wallabie, not quite a kangaroo...must be a wallaroo! Size-wise these macropods, also known as euros, are right in between wallabies and kangaroos, but they're actually an entirely different group. The name comes from the Australian Aboriginal Dharug name walaru.

(Image: A common wallaroo (Macropus robustus) by Ron Knight)

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Just A Guy

I felt like I needed to clarify some things before we could continue any more conversations on this godforsaken website.

I’m very proud of the European Robin, I think I really captured it.

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you’re not a true dasyuromorph disciple until you have a wild quoll walk up to you and sniff your phone

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Thylacine studies from the colorized footage.

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Yellow-footed antechinus :)

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This is a honey possum! They're tiny marsupials related to the other Australian possums. They feed exclusively on nectar and pollen and are also referred to by the Noongar Aboriginal language name Noolbenger.

Smeeking on my flower

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May I present for your consideration the humble dunnart

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Umber sketches

More of my boy! His name is Umber, he is a quoll.

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every time i see one of those posts that incorrectly identifies echidnas or quolls as herbivores i get so irrationally angry. how dare you not understand the dietary requirements of an animal that isnt very well understood by international audiences. im going to kill you. why dont you know ANYTHING about australian wildlife. are you some sort of moron

[joeycbang]

tattoo-esque thylacine

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Quinn Quokka by douglas

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Wombat

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pt II australia but i've never been there

I didn't even have to wait for y'all's responses on part I to make this because Australia is WILDING. As per usual, salutations to Arthur's grandmother's boyfriend Brian.

Everything remaining that I know about Australia:

There was an emu war. There were many emu casualties, and no human ones, but the emus won anyway. Sun Tzu is making way for the emus.

That was the only research I did on the emu wars, but as someone who met a few emus once, they were very lovely to me and very soft to pet. They also were very jabby. One of them looked deeply concerned as they looked at me, I believe they thought I was a deformed emu. I am on the winning side of the war.

During Christmas, Santa does not have a sleigh. He has a surfboard, and he does slay.

There are a lot of animals. Many have no placenta, as I recall from biology. Due to the nature of the continental drift and geographical isolation, Australian marsupials evolved separately from placental mammals, and were not wiped out by invading species. Due to convergent evolution, there are also analogous species between the placental mammals and the marsupials.

What just happened I'm sorry deep science trauma was unearthed. The point is, a lot of animals. A kangaroo is probably in your backyard. A koala just stole your girlfriend. An alligator murdered your classmate. It just happens.

KOOKOOBURRA SITTING ON THE OLD GUM TREE MERRY MERRY SOMETHING SOMETHING idk I was 3 when my mum sang me that.

The internet is awful. Rumours are that the local snake ate it.

Australia is very very pretty, I know this because of an Australian Tourism Department ad that I saw when I was 12 and had cable TV.

You must not forget your Hat. It's like the three little kittens song, but with the Hat instead of mittens.

The Wibbles are a thing. I thought they were a band. Spotify said no. I no longer know what they are.

Crocodile Dundee is a thing. I saw him in Snoopy/Peanuts.

Steve Irvin met his wife in an animal area and his daughter met her husband in an animal area. I don't know anything more these lovely folks, or what the animal area was, I'm afraid.

There is a cake with white stripes that is the Best for Birthdays.

The accent is beautiful, but I admit for years I couldn't differentiate it from British and American accents as a child because to me it sounded like the lovechild of them both and it made me very confused.

Uh, Australia exists.

Yeah, no, that's all I've got. Love to the Australian maggots.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldNumbatDay:

"An ant-eater, Fowlers Bay, South Australia" by Edward Russell, 1870

pen & ink, 11.4 x 17.8 cm

inscription: "Length fr. top of nose to top of tail 10 inches, colour a red brown & white stripes."

National Library of Australia

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Devils