#marsupial mice

[snototter]

A yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes) in Victoria, Australia

by Patrick Kavanagh

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Done In by the Stripe-faced Dunnart

The stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) is a small mammal found in the dry grasslands and shrublands of Australia. There are three subspecies distributed across the continent; S. m. macroura in central, eastern, and western Australia, S.m. stalkeri in northern Australia, and S.m. froggatti in the Kimberley region. These subspecies diverged from each other millions of years ago, but they bear such a strong resemblance to each other that the distinction was only recently discovered via genetic testing. Although they’re also known as the “marsupial mouse”, S. macroura is not a member of the rodent family. Rather, it’s in a separate family: Dasyuridae, a group of marsupials that also includes quolls (Dasyurus spp.), the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), and the now-exctinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus).

S. macroura is one of the smaller marsupial species, at only 15-19 cm (6-7.5 in) long. The tail accounts for nearly half that length. The species is sexually dimorphic, with females usually weighing about 15 g (0.17 oz) and males coming in at 25 g (0.88 oz). Otherwise the sexes are identical: pale grey or brown fur with a dark stripe running down between the eyes that gives the species its namesake. The coloration allows the stripe-faced dunnart to avoid predators like snakes, hawks, and foxes.

Breeding for the stripe-faced dunnart occurs from July through February, and females can produce two litters in a season. This species has the shortest pregnancy period of any mammal, taking only eleven days from fertilization to birth. Joeys remain the mother’s pouch for an additional 40 days, and she can carry and nurse up to 8 young at a time. After they leave the pouch the joeys will stay with their mother for up to 30 days, at which point they’re weaned. Females become sexually mature after only 4 months, while males take up to 9 months to mature, and both sexes can live up to 4 years in the wild.

Outside the breeding season, S. macroura is fairly solitary. Individuals maintain home ranges, although they’re generally not territorial. Within these home ranges, nests are made from grass and leaves or from digging burrows. At times the stripe-faced dunnart may share a nest with up to 8 others, although these arrangements are usually temporary. The species is nocturnal and spends much of its time foraging for insects and small vertebrates like lizards or mice. When food is especially abundant, extra fat is stored in the tail, which enlarges and becomes carrot-shaped. In the winter, individuals will enter a state of torpor, in which their metabolism slows and their body temperature lowers to reduce energy consumption by up to 90%.

Conservation status: Although the IUCN has rated the stripe-faced dunnart as Least Concer, this species is threatened by overgrazing and trampling of their native grasslands. Habitat clearing and fragmentation are also harmful, as are feral cats which directly impact the species population.

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Photos

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Jeremy Ringma

Gerhard Körtner

[hasellia]

I need a heist movie featuring these two.

[ifatoastcantalkinspace3207]

Cantinflas the Opossum or "Mice" (Sorry) By Foxtown2002 on Deviantart

Cantinflas (C) Himself

Art (C) Foxtown2002

[grimark]

the state of queensland is just like fuck off and die if you want to own a rodent. do not bring that shit up here.

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

"Bird" #41 - the Virginia opossum

Did you know there are lots of species of opossum other than the well-known dumpster cat? I didn't! (Maybe just because I'm outside of America tho) There are 126 species found in the Americas. They range from looking like weird squirrels, to tiny lemurs, to mice, to stoat-like.

Opossums are not to be confused with possums. Possums are also marsupials, but are found in Australia and more related to kangaroos than the American opossum.

Suggested by @/iamtheonethinginlifeicancontrol & anon

[seeraphina]

for context:

i was discussing with my sister about how odd i think bears are (as i am prone to do) and how i find it difficult to sort them into one of the main subgroups of mammals that first come to mind, like are they more catlike? doglike? i feel like i can sort most mammals into one of these categories but bears are just so odd idk where they go. and she (my sister) looks me dead in the eye and goes, "wtf are you talking about? they're so obviously most similar to gorillas." ????????????????????????????????? i haven't stopped thinking about this reply since then cause it is sooo very wrong and honestly just fucking shocking lmao i need to know how other people think about this

(also turns out bears are just from the 'ursidae' family which literally only contain bears and a bunch of extinct animals so i was technically right in thinking that they're odd and separate)

[o-craven-canto]

What is your position on the debate between contingency and convergence in evolution? As a creator and enjoyer of speculative evolution, I imagine you might fall more towards contingency, but I'd still be curious on your overall thoughts on it, and on how different a separate run of evolution on an earthlike planet would really be.

Hmm.

Biologists usually distinguish two types of resemblance among organisms: analogy, which mostly regards general function and appearance and is driven by common conditions, and homology, which mostly regards deep structure and is driven by common ancestry.

All the limbs of land-dwelling vertebrates and their descendants are made of one long bone, followed by two parallel long bones, followed by a maximum of five (except in ichthyosaur flippers) series of digit bones. This you see from frogs to seagulls to horses to manatees to moles -- the descendants of proto-amphibians such as Ichthyostega -- but not in any other animal group. This is the canonical example of homology: there is no reason for such different limbs with functions so different to share the same 1-2-n pattern except inheritance from a common ancestor. On the other hand, the wings of birds and those of insects, or for that matter their eyes, are so different because they arose independently. The common features in the wings of a hummingbird and a dragonfly are due to the same physical constraints, and that is analogy.

Sometimes it depends from the level of analysis: bird wings and bat wings are analogous as wings -- their flight surface is achieved by different means, feathers in one and skin in the other -- but homologous as vertebrate forelimbs -- they have the same 1-2-n sequence of bones, and their development is regulated by the same genes.

There are, of course, physical reasons for structures to resemble each other: everything that moves quickly through water needs to be more or less spindle-shaped; everything that grows past a few hundred grams on dry land needs some sort of rigid support; photosynthesizers and filter-feeders need fractally branching structures; and so on. Compound eyes and exoskeletons really are more efficient at smaller sizes, camera-type eyes and internal skeletons at larger, so that's a reason other than ancestry for insects and birds to be so different; but the largest butterflies are bigger than the smallest hummingbirds, so it's not just a matter of scale; and the eyes of tunas are more like the eyes of eagles than like the eyes of squids, so it's not just a matter of environment.

Some classical examples of convergent evolutions overstate their case a bit: sharks, ichthyosaurs, and dolphin all started from the same aquatic vertebrate chassis, so their similarity is not pure environment-driven convergence. (But it is a bit: from the same chassis you can also make a turtle or a crane.) Similarly for marsupial mice and moles vs. their placentate equivalent, none of whom gets that far from the original mammal model to begin with. When you get a bit farther, you find that the Australian equivalent of a horse is not an almost identical "marsupial horse" but a kangaroo, for reasons that have to do with marsupial birth. It's the same for the now-famous case of carcinization, which only applies to decapod crustaceans -- it's not even universal for crustaceans in general! If you try over and over to make an open-water pursue predator out of the vertebrate plan, you'll get similar results: the shark, the tuna, the ichthyosaur, the dolphin. But try the same with the mollusk plan, and you get a squid.

Now, convergence is likely to occur on other planets, because anything recognizable as life will have similar requirements and meet similar challenges. But it will be much more subtle than making planets full of blue horses and humans with weird eyebrows (I can't overstate how complex and specific the history of our body shape is). Assuming an Earth-like planet, for example, I'd expect its surface ecosystems to be overwhelmingly based on photosynthesis, its "plants" to have branching shapes with flat light collectors, and its largest "animals" to be bilaterally symmetrical with eyes, intestines, and skeletons of some sort. But that still leaves an enormous amount of variety, based both on ancestry and on smaller-scale micro-environmental constraints: note that the description of "animal" I gave fits equally a tarantula, a giraffe, a snail, and an axolotl.

TL;DR: many important traits of living organisms are made necessary by physical and environmental constraints, but there's an immense variety of ways to develop them, and that is mostly going to be driven by contingencies in ancestry. In my opinion, that is.

As readings, I'd recommend The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution (Charles Cockell, 2018) and Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (George McGhee, 2019) as summaries of the physical constraints and useful strategies that are going to arise over and over in living systems, as well as this brief paper on the evolution of complexity in alien life. Note how much similarity they predict, but also note how much they don't!

Thanks for the question! <3

[silverhart-makes-art]

I knew I wanted to do Bestiary Posting this week, but I'm gonna be super busy in the coming days, so I had to rush this out right away. So sketch is a bit messy.

At first I thought I knew what critter it could be, but I've been wrong before with my guesses, and then as I started thinking up what I'd like to draw I kept thinking 'oh well, maybe that's what it is; or maybe that's what it is', so suffice it to say, I am not confident in my guess at all.

The Hreksong is cunning and hunts snakes, so my mind went to the mongoose - renowned for it's snake catching skill. Carrying it's young made me think of opossums - in fact a lot of arboreal animals carry their young, so makes sense for it to be arboreal. An arboreal mongoose. The conceiving/birthing through the ears or mouth kind of tripped me up, but I remembered a type of frog that carries it's young in it's mouth, and mouthbrooding is pretty common in fish, so I guess it's not impossible to imagine a more terrestrial animal doing the same (originally did not draw it with an open mouth, and I gotta say the open mouth adds so much charm and horror to this creature; though I am curious if mouth/ear is where it's babies are born/conceived where in the body do they develop? Does it have a womb connected to it's ears/mouth, or is it like a marsupial pouch in the neck? I have so many questions). Of course, being arboreal, it needed reverse counter shading as arboreal animals tend to have. And then it ended up looking like a pine marten. A mouthbrooding pine marten...

Still, I think it would be fun to have your own house Hreksong. The description says they 'roam around in houses', which I can only guess means they are not pets or working animals, and are instead like mice or little brownies that move into your house unannounced, and make mischief in the night. You know, like lapping up all the cream, and stealing only left socks, and mussing up your hair while you sleep. And there's just not a whole lot you can do about it, unless you'd rather be overrun by mice and snakes.

[ishtates]

Some of y'all realize pests go deeper than flies, spiders, cockroaches, and rats, right ?

Things some people also consider pests:

- literally any bug or insect can be a pest. Butterflies, moths, beetles, mantises, stick bugs, dragonflies, milipedes...

- literally almost every rodent or marsupial or anything similar ( keyword similar ) to a raccoon. Ferrets, raccoons, skunks, sugar gliders, squirrels, chipmunks, bats.. while guniea pigs and hamsters are pets and domesticated, they can still be trained to cause problems

- snakes !!! Snakes can act as pests, too !!

- snails and slugs !!

If it can:

- cause disturbance to livestock

- disturb homeowners

- ruin a home

It's a pest. naturally spiders, cockroaches, termites, rats, and mice are the most common pests, and some of the ones listed above rarely act as pests, but that's not to say they can't do damage at all or even scare homeowners

In other words

Ishtar could very likely have an army of bats, raccoons, moths, and snakes at the ready

" what if the snakes eat the rest " if she can summon them she can train them

[vioshortforviolence]

Minish Variants

So I had a thought: What if the Minish looked different depending on where they live, based on different rodent and rodent-like species?

I mean, we already have Forest/Town Minish, and Mountain Minish, how about Tropical or Desert? Snowy?

Forest & Town: Wood or Deer Mouse

The "default", and most common, Minish variant.

In Minish Cap, the Town Minish are just Forest Minish that decided to move into town, so it would make sense for them to be the same variant; but if they were to be different, I suppose Town Minish could be House or Fancy Mice.

Plains/Grasslands: Striped Grass Mouse

The second most common variant.

These Minish would have either a single dark stripe running down their back, or many light and dark stripes.

Desert: Jerboa and/or Grasshopper Mouse

Jerboas are the funny looking ones with long legs, ears, and a long, tufted tail. They usually move by hopping around and can even run up to 15 mph (24 km/h)!

Also, fun fact: The grasshopper mouse howls (yes like a wolf) and is carnivorous! 😌

Snowy: Lemming (Tundra Mouse)

These Minish would have long fur and live in large tunnel systems under the snow.

Or maybe they'd live in cute little log (stick?) cabins 🥺

Mountain: Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared Mouse or Pika

In Minish Cap, the Mountain Minish we meet are actually just Forest Minish that moved into Mt. Crenel, but if they were to be different, I suppose they could be the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse.

These mice in particular have been found more than 20,000ft above sea level, on the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano!

Another option would be the Pika (which isn't actually a rodent, but is instead a lagomorph) as they also live in the mountains.

A defining trait of the Pika is their various calls/songs, which would fit the Mountain Minish's tendency to sing the "Ting Tong" song.

Tropical Rainforest: Feathertail and/or Sugar Glider

Though not rodents (they're marsupials), glider Minish would be cute! Unlike the Forest Minish, who live in mushroom houses on the forest floor, these Minish would live up high, in the tallest trees.

Aquatic: Water-rat (Rakali)

These Minish would be semi-aquatic, with partially-webbed hind legs and waterproof fur. They would also be the best swimmers out of all the Minish variants.

...and mostly carnivorous, with a focus on aquatic animals. That too.

[verashalurks]

I know this is like dying but I’ve waited so long to post this cuz I wanted to get as much as I can but since I haven’t seen another alternate m*leven ship name in forever, I’ve decided to post all the alternate m*leven ship names I’ve seen.

milkvan

macarena

mumble

miley cyrus

melvin 

milkshake

mitochondria 

Keke waka 

milkdud

Misaligned Fallopian Tubes

machine gun

milkcurd

mildew

milkman

moonshine

menstruation

midleven 

Macroeconomice

microwave

Macadamia nut

monkeyvenom

masturbation

mythology

Minotaur

malware

malnutrition

Minecraft mobs

moon landing conspiracy

margerine

murmers

milkyway 

mcchicken

monsoon

melted marshmallows

mango

maroon 5

Of Mice and Men

Madagascar

Marty McFly

melville

Milk of Magnesia 

Milkwaukee

Milkchocchip

M-1 Rifles

Meerkats

Mlvn

M&Ms

McDonalds

McVans

Milehighclubs

Mitskivans

Mychemicalromance

Monsterhighs

Millennials

Malnourished Skin

Mona Lisa

Mushroom Raviolis

MK-16

Mascara

Monoclonal Antibodies

Mamma mia

Mealworm

messenger

mentoses

milkweed

microbe

mimetite 

morsels

mozzarella sticks

milkchicken

minestrone

macaroni

Methamphetamine

Markiplier

milkbag 

machine gun kelly

zoo wee mamas

Milevensies

molotov

mismatches

mandalorian

mildred

magdalena bay

milulu

Milkmaids

minimum wages

mailman

malt vinegars

moshimonsters

mids

mocha monsters

Marley and Me

Mitosis

three musketeers

milkshit

Miranda Sings

motorola

mobility exercises

Malnourished Foreskin

miscellaneous

McNuggets

microfungus

minnie mouse

millipede

milkmonsters

monkey ooh ooh ah ah

martians

milquetoast

Manicure

milkbone 

Meryl Streep

macadamias

Maple Syrup

mildew

multivitamins

mascarpone

mikeisdefinitelyisdefinitelyahetrosexual

magnesium

magician

mickey mouse clubhouse

Macaulay Culkin

Molotov Cocktail

meatball choppers

milky cereal cup

monkey see monkey do’s

meth lab

millyrocks

Milklovers

midvans

mac and cheese

mindflayer

Marvin martians

malteesers

minivan

MilkTit

milk and cookies

milklords

Tickle Me Elmos

minnions

mad mothers

mariposa

Milkbag

mitskivan 

Mucinex

mixed signals

Milkytitty

mighty morphin power rangers

🥛🚚

Milkvillains

Mosquito bites

Mug cakes

Moldy milks

micropenis

maggots

Machupichu

mephistopheles

malted milk

musculoskeletal

Mcdonald's happy meals

moose mooses

macaroni n cheese

maternity leave

moustache mountain

mocha cake a la goldilocks

Mcstuffins

Mcmuffin

Nickleback

MonkeyBall

mistletoes

moo moo

microphone

master of puppets

middleman

Monster of Men

Melted Cream Cheese

milkythooth's

meltdowns

mosh pits

Mikinam 

Megatron Titty

MontyPhyton

malaria

michigans

malibubarbie

Mockingbird

Machine Gunner

Milkbone

Milftits

Mcflurry

mangos

metric system

milkydudes

milk cartons

milklevel

Milan champions league

mcladdles

mustard

malfunctioning minotaurs

moaning myrtle

meep city

mount vesuvius

millyrocker

mango salsa 

milkspill

Mitochondrial Disease

m'leven

michigan

Machine Gunner

Maybelline

Mascot

Moldy Mozzarellas

malt powder

machine gun kelly

Manila papers

Merlin’s Beard

mackerel

Moldymilk

mariachi

mein kampf

melevenene

Miku

mediocre meat loaf

Mambo Jambos

Microscope 

my little pony

Menstrual cup

Mothman 

Megamind

Msg

Marvins 

Mesopotamias

Meralco

misanthropic villains

Mishawaka

Moldy bread

Marsupials

Marvin

Melon rinds

Moondance

Moldy macaroni

Magical miscarriages

Mauled maggots

Machine gunners

Moscova

Mondays

Momento Morí

mitochondrion

Megatron

Misused toilet

meeting micky mouse

melatonin deficiency

Minions

Milkovitch

Manly-man

McLovin It

Mexico

milkytruck

molars

Married Salamanders

mister mustard

Mario Kart

Mouse rat

marshal mathers

militia

milebin

Mewtoo

Margaritas

Mick Jagger

Elr 

Milkwaffers

Milkweven

Mud Stain

Mileperson

milerescent

Milanese

Manatee Turd

Magistrate

Mario run

Mint-chip icecream

Milkwaffers

Microsoft

miléveune

Mesothelioma

Moomoos

matchstick

malteser

morallysus

Macronutrient 

Miel

Milanese

milkies

Microsoft11

mineral water

multiplier

Mario Kart Wii

mild salsa

Minnesota

motorcycle

Minecart

Maltodextrin

muffin mans

Midlife crisis

Mortadella

Matcha

Microdickvan

Mac & cheese

Middle aged vans

Super Mario 64

Metamorphosis

Malcom in the middle

Magic Mike

711

Marijuana

mozzarella

Microbial virus

MySpace

Materasso Eminflex

microsoft software protection platform

Micheal Jackson

Mistyped

Miscarriage

Magnetic dipole

Marble Countertop

Michelin star

Milkkawaii

Mathematics

Microgodzilla

Milkchunk

milktruck

malooban

Masachussets Institute of Technology

Mango Juice

Mary had a little lamb

Menthols

Mark of Athenas

mendocino

milwankas

[dougdimmadodo]

Long-Tailed Mouse (Pseudomys higginsi)

Family: Typical Mouse Family (Muridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found only on Tasmania but widely distributed across its home island, the Long-Tailed Mouse is one of relatively few non-marsupial mammals native to Australia (with its ancestors having likely drifted from southern Asia on beds of vegetation around 6-8 million years ago.) While members of this species can inhabit a wide range of habitats they are most abundant in wet, humid forests, and are largely nocturnal (spending the day in a burrow dug in soft, damp soil, although in areas where predators are scarce they may become increasingly active during the day.) Long-Tailed Mice feed on insects, fruits, ferns, mosses and other forms of damp vegetation (often taking in so much water when eating that they do not need to drink,) and dig networks of tunnels across the forest floor near their home den to allow them to forage without being detected by predators such as Australian Masked Owls, Eastern Quolls and invasive Domestic Cats with which their natural predators are forced to compete. Adults of this species breed mainly between November and April (although mating may occur at any time of year following heavy rainfall, with the population of this species often exploding in size following rainy periods,) and it is typical for a single female to produce two litters of 2-4 young in each breeding season. Newborn Long-Tailed Mice are furry but unable to move, see or eat, and remain in their mother’s den where they are protected and fed on milk until they are around 40 days old. Although a mother Long-Tailed Mouse will typically leave her young in their den when she goes out to forage, she is able to carry them away from the den and to safety in the event of an attack by having them cling to her underside using specialized blunt, inwards-facing incisors with which they are born.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/45216-Pseudomys-higginsi

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Post about Aussie animals bc they're fucking terrifying

To start, this is a magpie.

Spring / late summer is called "magpie season" here and if you walk under their nests or around the tree that their nest is in they will swoop

That beak and claws? Razor sharp. If you're a cyclist you're dead

Magpie helmets are a common sight during this time (you can literally buy them online)

Next: cassowary

See that weird lump thing on it's head? That's bone. They will run at you and impale you with it.

See one of these in the wild? Run for your life.

Cassowaries have three-toed feet with sharp claws. The inner (first) toe has a dagger-like claw that can be ~125 mm

They sometimes kick and you do not want to be within range when they do

These are pretty big at up to 1.8m tall with the males at 29-55kg and the females up to 76kg

There is a large variety of spiders in this fucked-up country but my personal favorite is the Queensland bird eating tarantula.

As you may have guessed, this fucker eats birds.

They're more commonly found in the warmer and more acrid regions of Australia, which means you'll probably find them in Queensland and around Darwin.

This wonderful animal I'm going to show you next is called the platypus.

They're probably my favorite animals they're so weird 😂

They're like otters but they have a bill and webbed fins like a duck

They're mammals but they lay eggs and theyre amphibious

The males have a venomous spur on their inner hind ankle

And the babies are called puggles which I absolutely LOVE

Ok next up is the emu

These things are relatively friendly

You can buy these little packets of emu food from certain servos which you can feed to them (they'll eat out of your hand)

Their eggs are fucking huge (average height 13x9cm, weight 450-650g) and so are they (average height 1.75m, weight 50-55kg)

KOALAS (not koala bears)

These balls of fluff are herbivores and their diet is mainly made up of eucalyptus leaves

They live in eucalypt trees and can sleep for up to 20 hours a day because the leaves they eat don't contain much nutrition

Koala babies are called joeys ♥️♥️

They're marsupials and the females give birth to undeveloped joeys which crawl into the mothers pouch where they stay for the first 6-7 months of their lives

Joeys are fully weaned when they're around a year old

Kooaburras ~~

Kookaburras are so annoying sometimes

They almost never stop laughing

And they steal your food

Once when I was down south with my parents (my sister hadn't been born yet) we were at this pub in the bush and I had fish and chips

In a tree relatively close to where we were sitting there was a kookaburra

And out of the blue it sWOOPED DOWN AND STOLE THE BATTER OFF MY FISH

And then I apparently started crying (I was like 4 give me a break)

Anyway

Kooaburras are almost exclusively carnivorous, eating mice, snakes, insects, small reptiles, and the young of other birds

They dont usually eat fish though they are known to take goldfish from ponds (I'm realizing now thats probably where my goldfish went)

[39mice]

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[otacringe]

ok this is thylacoleo its a MARSUPIAL (!!) carnivore (!!!) from australia (!!!) at least until global warming in the late pleistocene and some dudes that discovered fire took her OFF THE MAP (like many ice age mammals) and now well animals just dont get that big (some other marsupial carnivores are/were the thylacine, quolls, some species of mice etc)

ntice the face. ok thylacine evolved into eating meat. so if you look at a skull of it (do that on youir own i dont have it on hand) you can see the incisors are actually molars that jut forward and create one Super Tooth to tear meat. these dudes were NOT originally carnivorous! so why do they have those big teeth? well look at this shit

this is its thumb, which is rotational (kind of like a monkey i think) and has a big honking dewclaw on there (like a cat) so its usually called "the marsupial lion". but its elbow joints are not locked like a lions, and are unique to thylacoleo in that they have a lot more rotation power! so its actually thought that those big rodent teeth were to GRAB ONTO PREY and the CLAWS were what they used to kill once they were grappled on! thats very unique (some sabercats also used their big teeth to stab in prey so maybe it was an ice age trend) anyway

i actually had no idea there were even prehistoric marsupials, this is cool as shit!!! thank you i will be sharing this with everyone i know now