#australian animals

[platypu]

yeah facebook is terrible but sometimes you stumble across pure gold. there are dream animals i want to see in the wild and there will be posts like

ma'am that is the critically endangered regent honeyeater. There are less than 300 of them left in the wild

[feathercreates]

becky lemme smash please (a.k.a. I found a Satin Bowerbird bower down by my local creek and was a little bit inspired. XD) Stickers, pattern goodies and more can be found on my Redbubble store here!

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBudgieDay, here is the 1st published image of a Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) for its scientific description by George Shaw (as the “Undulated Parrakeet") in The Naturalist's Miscellany of 1804-5.

(Yes, it appears unnaturally elongated, likely due to Shaw working from a skin rather than a living bird.)

Via BHL

[plushieanimals]

Quinn Quokka by douglas

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Henry Burrell · Platypus · 1910s

Henry James Burrell (1873-1945) ~ Young Platypus, ca. 1914. Glass negative | src Australian museum

[...] most famous for being the first person to successfully keep platypuses in captivity. To do this he invented the ‘platypusary’, a storage tank which enabled him to both study and exhibit live platypuses. The platypusary was used [...]

view & read more on wordPress

[clownsaint]

Noisy-miner slasher

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[malvacae]

[wildsideoflifeencounters]

Some days getting out of bed is so hard.

A joey's inelegant exit from its mother's pouch.

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. meet the quoll. they're marsupials! they're carnivorous! they're super cute! and there have been 111 cases recorded of them eating human bodies and human corpses!

they used to be abundant in australia before european settlement, but now some species have seen a nearly 70% decline. one species has even disappeared completely from the australian mainland.

australian geographic | bush heritage

photos: picasa web albums | guy nœhringer | jj harrison | michael barritt & karen may

[oceaniatropics]

Spotted-tail Quoll, Monga National Park, New South Wales, Australia by David Gallan

[cy-cyborg]

I really don't like the way people talk about snakes, especially here in Australia. I know a lot of folks are afraid of them and phobias are real and valid but the sheer hatred some folks have for them just makes me sad.

Like I just saw a tik tok of a beautiful wild carpet python climbing off someone's roof into a tree and in the video the person filming is going on about how feral and gross it was, and telling her kid (off screen) how they're so gross and ucky. Based off his voice the kid seemed to be having a good time watching it but the person filming just kept reiterating how ucky it was until he started repeating it back. I get teaching your kids to stay away but you can do that without demonising an important part of our ecosystem.

And my god, the comments. "The only good snake is a dead snake" "it needs a good shovel to the head" etc

I had a bunch of similar comments filtered from when I posted videos of my snake (an albino carpet python named nugget) when he was unwell too. I was posting in hopes someone would know a way to make his vet treatment less stressful on him. I even put content warnings on some of the videos of him because I respect that some people just really don't like them and I wanted to give those folks the chance to just scroll away. You don't have to like them, but why do so many people feel the need to be so mean to them/about them.

Nugget is doing fine now btw.

[platypu]

[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

[foxpost-generator]

I went to a wildlife park today... the fox was sleepy and wouldn't come out 😭

The other beafts were very good though. I touched a wombat. There were lots of cool reptiles and nocturnal critters. Quoll.

Or for wildlife that's wild: @skydarcyedwards

[elbarkla]

hanging with my favourite dinosaur, ❤ MINMI ❤

Minmi paravertebra was small (2.5-3m long) and lived in Australia like me. Perhaps in another life we could have been friends. At least I can draw him having a fun eating apples