#wambenger

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Red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura)

Mark Marathon

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Common wambenger (Phascogale tapoatafa)

Photo by Ken Stepnell

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Made a list of the neatest marsupial names:

Bilby

Numbat

Planigale

Kultarr

Dunnart

Wambenger

Dasyure

Antechinus

Kaluta

Dibbler

Mulgara

Kowari

Quoll

Cuscus

Triok

Bettong

Woylie

Potoroo

Dorcopsis

Pademelon

Nabarlek

Monjon

Quokka

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Cameroon Says Separatist Fighters Occupy More Than 50 Schools

Cameroon Says Separatist Fighters Occupy More Than 50 Schools

Cameroon says armed separatists are occupying more than 50 schools in its western English-speaking regions.  Using the facilities for training and to hide from the military.  The alleged occupation could complicate government plans to restart education in the regions in September.

The Anglophone rebels have attacked numerous schools over the past two years, in some cases abducting teachers and…

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Red Tailed Phascogale/Wambenger (Phascogale calura) - 

Phascogales are small carnivorous marsupials native to western Australia.  There are only two species of Phascogale; the red tailed and the brush tailed.  The red tailed is the smaller of the two.  

These little marsupials are best known for their die hard mating habits.  Males will become so overwhelmed with hormones that they usually die shortly after their first mating seasons.  In the wild, males will live just over a year.  Females can live up to about 3 years.  Females might produce one or two litters in a lifetime. 

Living primarily in trees, it eats mostly insects, arachnids, and sometimes small reptiles or mammals.  It does not need to drink water, as it gets its moisture from its food. 

It is vulnerable to introduced predators and more recently, new chemicals that threaten its population.  They have been listed as near threatened within the last few years. 

Photos: (top) (bottom left) (bottom right) 

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Only the males, though. From the original research paper "... females have maximized sperm competition among males by highly synchronizing estrus and mating promiscuously, the die-off mechanism is adaptive in males even though the resulting immune collapse is fatal."