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marsupials were on my mind so i made this char, decided i wanted to keep them, and then wanted to make them a pfp but things went off track oops

lofi music is making a comeback in my mental music war so um !!

keep reading for the ref of them :]] (their name is quill for now)

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The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the noombat or walpurti is an insectivorous marsupial. It is diurnal and its diet consists almost exclusively of termites

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walpurti!

(Myrmecobius fasciatus)

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Numbat/walpurti - endangered

📍 Australia

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NUMBAT!

Known as noombat or walpurti

Insectivorous marsupial

Diet mostly termites

Origin: Australia

Diurnal (active chiefly in the daytime)

Barely chews its food because of its soft diet

Contain most of their water through their diet

Prefer Eucalypt forests ... Wikipedia facts

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A one-of-a-kind sculpture depicting a semi-realistic Numbat.

The Numbat is a small, insectivorous marsupial native to Australia. They are currently endangered and inhabit only a small sliver of their previous range. 

This one took a lot of time. After sculpting the numbat from clay, I hand-painted each individual hair with acrylics. It took me multiple workdays to paint this guy.

The Numbat is available in my shop. Go here.

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Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

Source: S J Bennett

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Here is an animal you might not know about. This is a numbat, and it’s from western Australia. If you don’t like termites you’d like this dude because it almost exclusively eats termites. Unfortunately this cute marsupial is endangered. 

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Numbat

The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the banded anteater, marsupial anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial native to Western Australia and recently re-introduced to South Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. It digs them up from loose earth with its front claws and captures them with its long, sticky tongue. An adult numbat requires up to 20,000 termites each day. Once widespread across southern Australia, its range is now restricted to several small colonies, and it is listed as an endangered species. 

The numbat is a small, colorful creature between 14 and 18 inches long, including the tail, with a finely pointed muzzle and a prominent, bushy tail about the same length as its body. Color varies considerably, from soft grey to reddish-brown, often with an area of brick red on the upper back, and always with a conspicuous black stripe running from the tip of the muzzle through the eyes to the bases of the small, round-tipped ears. Between four and eleven white stripes cross the animal's hindquarters, which gradually become fainter towards the midback. The underside is cream or light grey, while the tail is covered with long, grey hair flecked with white. Weight varies between 280 and 700 g.

Unlike most other marsupials, the numbat is diurnal, largely because of the constraints of having a specialized diet without having the usual physical equipment for it. Most ecosystems with a generous supply of termites have a fairly large creature with powerful forelimbs bearing heavy claws. While the numbat has relatively powerful claws for its size, it is not strong enough to get at termites inside their concrete-like mounds, and so must wait until the termites are active. It uses a well-developed sense of smell to locate the shallow and unfortified underground galleries that termites construct between the nest and their feeding sites; these are usually only a short distance below the surface of the soil, and vulnerable to the numbat's digging claws.

Like many ant-eating animals, the numbat has an unusually long, narrow tongue, coated with sticky saliva. Despite its banded anteater name, it apparently does not intentionally eat ants; although the remains of ants have occasionally been found in numbat dung, these belong to species that themselves prey on termites, so were presumably eaten accidentally, along with the main food. A further adaptation to the diet is the presence of numerous ridges along the soft palate, which apparently help to scrape termites off the tongue so they can be swallowed. Numbats are apparently able to gain a considerable amount of water from their diets, since their kidneys lack the usual specializations for retaining water found in other animals living in their arid environment. 

Although the numbat finds termite mounds primarily using scent, it has the highest visual acuity of any marsupial, and, unusually for marsupials, has a high proportion of cone cells in the retina. These are both likely adaptations for its diurnal habits, and vision does appear to be the primary sense used to detect potential predators.

Until European colonisation, the numbat was found across most of the area from the New South Wales and Victorian borders west to the Indian Ocean, and as far north as the southwest corner of the Northern Territory. It was at home in a wide range of woodland and semiarid habitats. The deliberate release of the European red fox in the 19th century, however, wiped out the entire numbat population in Victoria, NSW, South Australia and the Northern Territory, and almost all numbats in Western Australia, as well. By the late 1970s, the population was well under 1,000 individuals, concentrated in two small areas not far from Perth, Dryandra, and Perup.

The two small Western Australia populations apparently were able to survive because both areas have many hollow logs that may serve as refuge from predators. Being diurnal, the numbat is much more vulnerable to predation than most other marsupials of a similar size: its natural predators include the little eagle, brown goshawk, collared sparrowhawk and carpet python. When the Western Australia government instituted an experimental program of fox baiting at Dryandra (one of the two remaining sites), numbat sightings increased by a factor of 40. An intensive research and conservation program since 1980 has succeeded in increasing the numbat population substantially, and reintroductions to fox-free areas have begun. Despite the encouraging degree of success so far, the numbat remains at considerable risk of extinction and is classified as an endangered species.

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the numbat. just because it’s fun to say. and it’s pretty cute too! original antique engraving c.1877 • listing him & more extraordinary & cute fauna today... #availableonetsy #endangeredspecies #marsupial #australia #australiana #antique #antiqueprintsforsale #antiqueprint #antiqueprintstore #noombat #walpurti #numbat #endangered #cuteanimals #soldonetsy #forsaleonetsy #etsyshop #antiqueseller #blackandwhite (at antiqueprintstore.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRM01hpjm8/?igshid=1pky3p4pi1y9n

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November 6th is...

Bison Day -  The official National Mammal of the United States, the iconic North American Bison, has played a cultural, economic and environmental role in the history of the country. Central to the livelihood of Native Americans, they are also a healthy food source and vital to religious ceremonies.  The bison is the largest land mammal in North America, with males weighing up to 2,000 pounds and standing up to 6 feet tall. While cows may be smaller at 1,000 pounds and up to 5 feet tall, they’re still mighty powerful.

International Day For Preventing The Exploitation Of The Environment In War And Armed Conflict - The day seeks to make people aware of the consequences that war and conflict have on the environment. Loss of life and the destruction of property are obvious consequences of war and armed conflict. There is another consequence as well. This is the negative effect that war and conflict has on the environment. 

Nachos Day - First created sometime around 1943, the popular and loved nachos are of Mexican origin.  History tells us that Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya created the original nachos in 1943. According to his son, Nacho was the maître d’ at the El Moderno Restaurant in Piedras Negras. One evening after the kitchen staff had left, a group of U.S. Army wives stationed at Fort Duncan in Eagle Pass came into the restaurant. After a long day of shopping, they were hungry and asked for a snack. Anaya prepared some tostadas cut into triangles. After topping them with shredded cheese and sliced jalapenos, he heated the dish in the oven. They were such a hit with the Army wives that they named the snack “Nacho’s Special” before he could make another batch.Word of the new creation quickly traveled. People from all over tried them, loved them, and over time, the name changed. Eventually, Nacho’s special became special nachos.

Play Outside Day - A  reminder to stretch our legs and expend some energy in the great outdoors.

Saxophone Day - Commemorates the birth of the woodwind’s inventor, Adolphe Sax, on November 6th. The saxophone is one of the main instruments in jazz music. Born on November 6, 1814, Adolphe Sax invented many musical instruments including the saxophone. Sax constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s. On June 28, 1846, he received a 15-year patent for the instrument. The patent encompassed 14 different versions of the fundamental design, split into two categories of seven instruments each and ranging from sopranino to contrabass.

World Numbat Day - A numbat is a small termite-eating marsupial that lives in Australia. It has a black and white striped back along with a bushy tail. A few other names for the numbat include the banded anteater, noombat, and walpurti. Its long, sticky tongue helps it capture underground termites. While numbats are considered marsupials, they don’t really have a pouch to carry their young. Instead, they have skinfolds that cover their babies while they drink milk from their mother.

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Encore post from exactly one year ago... Numbat aka Walpurti (Australian Marsupial) The numbat feeds almost exclusively on termites. It is an endangered species that lives in small pockets in western and south Australia. I have never seen this animal on any nature show and discovered it thanks to YouTube videos. This was created by me from a screenshot of a YouTube video that was processed using an app template by Creo to produce the painting-like effect. #Numbat #Walpurti #Marsupial #AustralianMarsupial #Australia #Cute #Kawaii #TermiteEater #PhotoManipulation https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-_CNwhEOa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1847fzbwjqkku

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Australian Mammals that you didn’t know existed

You hear a lot about Kangaroos and Koalas and such, so I thought I’d post some animals that are unknown to lots of people, even some Aussies don’t realise we have them. Sadly most of these are on the endagered species list.

Also some fun facts added so you can have an idea of how awesome they are.

Quolls

Considered Australia’s ‘native cat’ these guys are carnivorous marsupials and have the ability to bite through bone. ‘Quoll’ is an Aboriginal term meaning tiger cat (although they have spots not stripes so I think we translated wrong) If you find an animal that has been killed an turning inside out, it’s probably been eaten by a Quoll. These guys use their nimble hands to get to the yummy meat and bones and avoid all the fur, very clever! 4 species; Eastern Quoll, Spotted-Tailed Quoll (or Tiger Quoll), Western Quoll (or chuditch) and Northern Quoll. ranging in size from 25cm to 75 cm long.

Kultarr

Cute little insect eaters, again a marsupial. Can move at speeds of around 13km/hr. Only about 10cm long. So damn cute, look at that tail!

Bettongs

Marsupial. Of which there are 5 species (and at least another 2 extinct); Eastern Bettong, Boodie, Woylie, Northern Bettong and Rufous Rat-Kangaroo (or Rufous Bettong). They seem to get along well with wombats, where I work they enter the wombat exhibits of a night to share their food.

Bilby

Marsupial. There was once 2 species of Bilby, sadly the Lesser Bilby became extinct in the 1950s and the Greater Bilby is greatly endangered. In the same family as Bandicoots. Omnivores with backwards facing pouches (as they dig a lot this stops dirt getting in their pouch). Australian’s know these guys through the story of the Easter Bilby. Rabbits are considered a major reason for their decrease in numbers as they eat all the food and out-breed the Bilbies.

Numbat

Marsupial. Aka the banded anteater or Walpurti. Mainly eats termites. Emblem of Western Australia. Up to 45cm long. One of the few marsupials that are diurnal (active of a day). Eats up to 20,000 termites each day. Estimated population of less than 1000.

Grey-Headed Flying Fox

Aka Fruit Bat. Placental mammal. Called a flying fox because they have a fox-like face and can fly. Babies are called pups. Megabat. Wingspan of about 1m. May travel 50kms in one night for food. Eats pollen, nectar, sap and fruit. Long distance seed distributors and plant pollenators. Each colony plants around 30,000 trees a night. Without these guys we don’t have any of our lovely bush and ecosystem that we all rely on. Have very good eyesight and no echolocation.

Greater Stick-Nest Rat

Placental mammal. Up to 26cm long. Don’t have a ratty face. Were extinct on the mainland but through breeding programs have been re-introduced. Herbivores. Chew branches to length and weave them together to make a nest which can be up to 1m high and 1.5m wide.

Other unknown Australian Mammals you can look up:

Antechinus Pygmy Possum Feathertail Glider (smallest glider in the world) Southern Ningaui Greater Glider Potoroos Pademelons Eastern False Pipistrelle

Sadly lots of these could go extinct in our lifetime, and people haven’t even had the chance to really get to appreciate them yet. **PS the Koala is also in danger of becoming extinct in the wild

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Numbat

Numbat Facts The truly amazing Numbat remains perhaps one of the least known of all marsupials. The remarkable creature also goes by the other common names of the walpurti or the noombat. This fascinating animal further bears the somewhat cumbersome scientific name of Myrmecobius fasciatus. However, regardless of the name one calls it by, it […]

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After Action Report: Training Simulation

I last actually played Full Thrust in high school. That was a very long time ago and that’s the last we’ll say on the matter. This means that when I decided to introduce my girlfriend to the game on the first of our new weekly ‘board game’ nights, the idea was to keep it basic. Two fleets of roughly equal strength - two light cruisers and two frigates each - with no fighters, missiles, torpedoes, gravity wells or fancy bioship nonsense.

The Oceanic Union ships are statted using the Star Ranger designs, while the Sa’Vasku were represented by the generic ships in Full Thrust: Remixed, as it’s a nice clean version of the rules. Centimetres are used for MU, as it’s only a 36x36″ table.

The scenario is directly from an Oceanic Union academy textbook. An ancient, metallic structure has been discovered in deep space. Two powers seek to establish themselves at the enormous artefact. A skirmish ensues between their local exploratory fleets. The simulation places each cadet in charge of a small fleet of ships and they are expected to maximise asset security while damaging the enemy’s. 

There is no turn limit or break point, although the cadet who spends the lives of his fellows poorly has marks deducted. The structure is regarded as inert, having neither a gravity well nor local defences; it is essentially to symbolise contested space.

Cadet Goblin Paladin (me) chose the holo-images of OUDFS ships while Cadet Mermaid Princess (@idisimages) selected xeno bioships.

Initial deployment. Mermaid chose a cautious diamond formation, while Goblin spread his ships thinly. This is a mistake that would cost him in close engagement.

The ships move in.

Cadet Goblin overestimates the turn required in the orders to his ships, and splits his forces. He recovers in the following movements, but the damage to his morale may prove fatal.

By the third movement, the fleets had exchanged some light fire. Aside from some armour damage, little substantial had occurred. Cadet Mermaid closed very tightly with her opponent, while Cadet Goblin’s tendency to overestimate turning arcs cost him the advantage of manoeuvrability that is the hallmark of the Oceanic Union Defence Force.

On the other hand, Cadet Goblin had managed to knock out the fire control systems on the frigate on the right of the engagement.

Cadet Mermaid was proving to be incredibly lucky. Her focused fire had all but crippled the OUDFS Walpurti, with fires spreading through most of her decks and her life support failing - one time unit until asphyxiation for the crew. Wounded engineers slaved at the failing systems belowdecks while her captain ordered the remaining weapons online to fire at the enemy ships.

Cadet Goblin meanwhile was unfocused. On his left flank, the OUDFS Kombilol was largely undamaged but simply unable to anticipate the enemy movements well enough to bring most of her beam weaponry to bear. The small enemy frigate was at this stage still completely undamaged.

At this point, Cadet Goblin is in deep trouble. The ships on the right flank are falling to pieces. The last surviving simulated engineer of the OUDFS Walpurti, blood spattering the deck, managed to restore the life support systems, but the ship is barely held together by her paint. The little xeno frigate had repaired her fire control system and was pouring beam fire from her alien bioturrets.

Substantial damage has been done to the alien bioships, but Cadet Mermaid has slowed her thrusters to virtually nothing, and is keeping the ships in tight circles and focusing fire. Her leftmost cruiser is in what would ordinarily be a vulnerable position, but the Djirrabidi has no operating weapons or fire control, and her own life support is failing!

In the last turns, Cadet Mermaid vaporised the OUDFS Hydrophis in a burst of beam weaponry that scattered the ship’s ashes across the system (-8 boxes of damage!). The Walpurti pulled away around the silver structure, but was destroyed before it could either escape or assist Cadet Goblin’s left flank.

Cadet Goblin managed to get a minor revenge by annihilating the frigate that had been left vulnerable to Kombilol but it was too little, too late. With both his remaining ships badly damaged, he decided to withdraw from the conflict. Cadet Mermaid had suffered some damage, including two incapacitated FTL drives, but the victory this day was solidly hers.

Cadet Goblin Paladin: Oh, boy. I did not do a great job in this game. I forgot how far two points of turning actually moves you off course, and a couple of times I forgot that a single point would be done halfway through a move, and not at the start. Oops. I also forgot that the first rule of war is Overwhelming Force - I should have taken out that frigate early, and I shouldn’t have split my fleet around the GW skull objective. Lessons: learned.

Cadet Mermaid Princess: I won at space ships and rolled like a bazillion 6s and destroyed HEAPS OF THINGS. It was cool. Possibly the whole thing should be played on a scale measured in something other than centimetres, since ships seemed to be on top of each other a lot, but it worked out in terms of both fleets getting to attack frequently, which I think made the game more exciting.