#quolls

[ningauinerd]

you’re not a true dasyuromorph disciple until you have a wild quoll walk up to you and sniff your phone

[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

[antiqueanimals]

Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

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[plushieanimals]

Quoll plushies by bocchetta

[mindblowingscience]

During its brief mating window, the males run themselves ragged – then die from exhaustion, a study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast suggests.

The study compared the activity of male and female quolls (Dasyurus hallucatus) during mating season on Groote Eylandt , an island off the coast of the Northern Territory.

The male quolls spent just 8 percent of their time resting compared with 24 percent for females, and 13 percent of their time walking, compared with 9 percent for females.

One male quoll in the study, 'Moimoi', traveled 10.4 kilometers (6.5 miles) in one night in search of a mate – an epic journey for the cat-sized carnivore.

The lack of sleep and outpouring of energy during this 'mating frenzy' may explain why male northern quolls usually only live for one breeding season, whereas the females live for four.

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[platypusesforarms]

Animals in Tasmania | David Attenborough's Tasmania (2018)

[aquatic-batt]

happy fluffy friend Friday to the quoll!! :3

[snototter]

An Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) scavenging in Tasmania, Australia

by David Chesterfield

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

Get attacked!! ✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨

You can't attack me, I'm just a li'l guy

[toeybox]

Sir Leslie the Quoll by Tas Textiles Envirowoolly Collection collection blurb: "filled with [...] recycled wool from the production of [...] jumpers, which would otherwise end up in landfill." pic/info: [tastex site]

[id: an abstract plush quoll (small brown marsupial). it is flat and pillow-like, with two stubby arms and two huge legs, which makes the torso wider than it is tall. its details are stitched in embroidery: beady eyes, a pointy nose with whiskers, and white spots on its body. the knit of the fabric is wide and sock-like. /end id]

[warrior-kitty]

hello I have once again learned about an animal I didn’t previously know about

This is a quoll, and they’re small nocturnal, carnivorous marsupials that are native to Australia and New Guinea! They’re solitary animals and their diet mainly consists of smaller mammals, small birds, lizards and insects.

Look at them. Little guys

[ningauinerd]

brb driving down to beachport immediately

[antiqueanimals]

Theod

La Vie des Animaux Illustrée. Written by Alfred Brehm. 1869 French edition.

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[lazy-cat-corner]

I need Tom Hiddleston to narrate 3 more hours of footage of these dudes! 😭

Is he joking?!?!? They’re so small! 🥺 Look at that tree trunk next to him!

[taz-zo]

It's Hole in the Quoll Bag Sunday

[doctorbeth]

Kitty's Burns

Stuffed animals and dolls get burnt in many ways. Some are in fires. Some get burnt in the dryer, or with a blow dryer, in an attempt to dry them after a wash. But another common burn is from a lightbulb. Sometimes, you catch the burn early, so there's just a touch of discoloration. This happened to one of my teddy bears when I was in college... he fell off the bed onto a light. But I caught him pretty quick. Here he is today with some of his friends: Eeyore, a quoll, and a quokka:

'and here's his burn. It's on the back of his leg, and it still feels like the rest of his fur, so 'and here's his burn. It's on the back of his leg, and it still feels like the rest of his fur, so I've opted to leave it as is. Any transplant wouldn't match perfectly, and would be pretty invasive surgery. He earned his scar and he's proud of it. :-)

But sometimes, patients get really burnt by lightbulbs. As in charred, third degree burns. And that's what happened to Kitty. She was sitting on a light that was accidentally turned on and no one noticed till it was too late! Here is her diagnosis photo:

The (nice?) round burn went all the way around to her backside, but was quite localized. Burning had not only changed her fur color, it was charred, the fur melted, and so did some of the stuffing underneath. For this type of burn, the treatment is to excise the burnt fur and stuffing, and then give the patient new fur and stuffing as needed to restore the damaged areas. This is different from the usual fur transplants for bald spots, which go over surviving skin. Kitty's family decided she would get a spa too. She arrived and after stuffingectomy, started her bubble bath:

She got new stuffing, with a heart of original, unburnt stuffing:

And then she had surgery to treat the burn itself. Here she is all better and ready to fly home:

It's pretty hard to see the new fur, which was great! And it will blend even more as she's hugged in her natural environment. Her family wrote "Oh wow! She looks fantastic! :) I just shared photos with my wife, and she’s very happy :) .... couldn’t be more pleased!"

So Kitty flew home for more hugs and adventures... but no more lightbulb seats!