#bilbies

[flockofteeth]

its dangerous to go alone. here, take these bilbies

[feather-bone]

A bilby! A nocturnal marsupial from Australia. They build burrows throughout their territory, which provides shelter them and for other species, and which may help them stay safe through bush fires. As marsupials, they keep their young in pouches through their development, but their pouches are reversed! The entry to the pouch is at the bottom, rather than the top. This helps keep dirt from getting into their pouch while burrowing! I just think they’re neat. :-)

[ID: an illustration of a bilby on a light gold background with banksia flowers and leaves arranged above it. The bilby is walking to the left, in profile. End.]

[gischtglas]

Ich liebe die deutsche Sprache - wer sonst ist so gut darin, unnötig komplizierte Wörter zu erfinden?

Q: Wie heißt dieses Tier?

(von: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2014/03/15-million-year-old-bilby-fossil-found)

A: Englisch: Bilby.

Deutsch: Kaninchennasenbeutler!

Der erste Satz des deutschen Wikipediaartikels ist schon fast Kunst: "Der Kaninchennasenbeutler ist ein Beuteltier aus der Familie der Nasenbeutler."

[notnights]

Every donation given to the Save the Bilby fund in the remaining 17 hours will be doubled! Help these critters out if you can!

Thank you so much if you donated!

Here's my girl Yallara and some of my favorite bilby characters that I've also drawn these past few days.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Australia's native wildlife have been hit incredibly hard by invasive species introduced by Europeans, such as red foxes, rabbits, domestic cats, and rats. In fact, the lesser bilby won't be getting reintroduced with its greater counterpart because the lesser species went extinct in the 1950s due to cat and fox predation. This makes the greater bilby the very last species in its genus.

While the death of any wild animal may be saddening, especially one as charismatic as a red fox, the only way this reintroduction area would have been safe for the bilbies released there would be if all the foxes were removed. And it's heartening to think how these native omnivores will be able to thrive and have a better chance of surviving well into the future, instead of being wiped out by predators that never should have been there in the first place.

[reasonsforhope]

“For all those roo-ting for Australian wildlife, there are reasons to jump for joy as several endangered marsupials begin the road to recovery in their native habitats.

Starting with the world’s most-endangered marsupial, 4 male and 2 female Gilbert’s potoroos were released into the great southern region of the state of Western Australia.

After being threatened with extinction from a bushfire that reduced their numbers to 100, an insurance population was established on Bald Island, and a specially fenced-off area within Waychinicup National Park.

From these populations come the six pioneers that will hopefully lead to a rapid recovery in Two Peoples Bay, on the slopes of Mount Gardner, Western Australia...

Australia’s small marsupials can breed fast if food is plentiful and they are not over-hunted by feral cats and invasive foxes, something that conservationists in New South Wales, working with the golden banicoot, are seeing.

These smaller marsupials have been locally-extirpated from the far north-west for over 100 years. Now, after being reintroduced earlier this year in May, they are breeding at exceedingly fast rates within Sturt National Park...

The reintroduction was handled by Wild Deserts, a project from the Univ. of New South Wales that reintroduced bilbies—another marsupial extinct locally for over 100 years—back to Sturt in 2020.

Indeed the AUD$40 million program has saved and expanded 7 other species beyond the golden bandicoot and bilbies, and NSW Environment Minister James Griffin said it’s not only leading Australia “but the world,” as well...

A recent trapping campaign to count how many golden bandicoot joeys were among the breeding females showed “absolutely flourishing popluations.”

Wild Deserts project coordinator Reece Pedler said the project has more species on the list, and are working through the approvals on what animals to reintroduce next year.” -via Good News Network, 12/5/22

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Peramelemorphia. This order is made up of bandicoots and bilbies; norcturnal omnivores and excellent diggers.

Dasyuromorphia. This order is made up of carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, numbats, and the Tasmanian devil.

[provider-of-art]

OCs + Neopets Paint Brushes! Most of these were requested by @rational-mastermind, one was from @dans-other-clone, and one was just for myself heehee. I’m thinking about doing Neopets PBs with mlp or Sonic next 👀 Lemme know if you guys have any suggestions!

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

@frankieneedsmeds they are! Bandicoots are marsupials (they have young in pouches like kangaroos), and they're in a taxonomic order called Peramelemorphia. This order also includes bilbies!

Baby golden bandicoots (left) and a bilby (right).

The one in my post is a golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus). They're part of a genus (group of species) called Isoodon, or short-nosed bandicoots.

Isoodon obesulus, a Southern Brown Bandicoot.

There's also at least two other Isoodon species, the Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus and Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus, although there could be more. I'm doing a project to try and figure that out.

A map of Barrow Island and one of the island's bandicoots

There's a subspecies of these called Barrow Island bandicoots which live on (you guessed it) Barrow Island, off the coast of Western Australia. These are what my post mentioned.

Also if you're wondering there's another genus Perameles, or barred bandicoots, which are what Crash Bandicoot is actually based on!

[antiqueanimals]

About Marsupials: A Guide for Children, written by Cathryn Sill and illustrated by John Sill, 2006.

[jessiesjaded]

Top 5 native fauna? :O)

OOOOOHHH that's hard, theres so many I love!

Spotted Quoll: I saw one of these in my chicken coop raiding the eggs as a kid and always thought they were wonderful

Echidna: They're literally just so cute. That's all there is too it.

wombat: these dudes poop squares and videos of them running around jumping is so funny

Quokka: They're literally the cutest things in the world

frilled neck lizard: What more to say

[wild-saber1337]

SAVE THE BILBIES!!! (Art from krome studio)

Today is endangered species day and I would like to draw attention to the Australian bilby who is sadly going extinct because of environmental pressures and being out competed by invasive rabbits not native to Australia. So please if you have a heart and wish to save thies little guys from the land down under check the link

[hoontsart]

BIG ROUNDS

[greenlabcoat]

bibly sweep

[notnights]

Bonus bilby image for today! This is the adorable little nerdy Bildit from Beastieball! If you want to help little bilby guys out remember to donate to the Save the Bilby Fund in about 17 hours (March 20th 9am AEST) where every donation made that day will be matched! Every little bit helps the continue survival of little guys like these!

[alexisdrawsetc]

This Tiktok sound was so perfect I had to use it.