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A rather small, quite adorable looking macropod, the quokka is also very docile. With only a very small mainland population, under threat from (introduced) foxes and cats, the population on Rottnest is also facing it's own problems with illnesses being compounded by inbreeding (and rather daft tourists who insist on feeding it whatever they have in their backpacks...).
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Western Australia, Australia
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Mount Wood, New South Wales, Australia
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Mount Wood, New South Wales, Australia
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North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Chudleigh, Tasmania, Australia
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Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) in captivity at the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Taranna, Tasmania, Australia. Photographed on 26 January 1981.Digitised from a slide. The original slide, which is of higher quality, is held.
www.inaturalist.org/observations/55988732
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Chudleigh, Tasmania, Australia
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Croydon, Queensland, Australia
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Croydon, Queensland, Australia
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Croydon, Queensland, Australia
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This stamp of the koala, but not koala bear, collected by Michael Philately.
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One of Australia's iconic animals, this is the last of several species of koala. Recorded by westerners from the end of the 18th century, it got its scientific name in 1816 - refers to 'pouch' and 'bear'. The common name ""koala"" probably comes from an aboriginal name referred to as cullewine, koolewong, colo, colah, koolah, kaola and koala. Early settlers referred to koalas as sloths, monkeys, bears, and even monkey bears. Locals object to the use of the word 'bear'.
