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Category Archives: Marsupials

80 Wombats die after beaching themselves to protest whale cull

November 30, 2008 – 10:37 pm

Did you know that licenses are being issued willy nilly to cull various native beasts including Swans and Wombats? (Swans? WTF?) It’s true! Apparently native animals are enormously inconvenient to those of us who like to eat meat and wear wool etc. so people who I have not met in Rural and Regional Australia will [...]

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Burrowing Bettong (Bettongia lesueur)

October 22, 2008 – 5:02 pm

I have been sent a lovely photo by a Russian woman who wants to marry me. It is of a Burrowing Bettong (also known as a Boodie – but if you get one, don’t shake it! LOL Boodie joke!!). 
 
That first bit is not entirely true. This photo was sent to me in an email with [...]

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Gilbert’s Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii)

October 19, 2008 – 10:14 pm

This wee beastie is really really endangered. There is a bunch of marupials that are in serious trouble. I get quite depressed about anything becoming extinct, but marsupials especially. There was a time when I was concerned that we might have been losing something important to humans every time we allowed a species to drift [...]

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The Spotted-Tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus)

October 9, 2008 – 7:30 pm

Also known as the Tiger Quoll, this particular Quoll resides in bush and dense coastal heathland from Queensland to Tasmania. Or at least it did.
It is the largest native carnivore left on mainland Australia not including Julie Bishop, Zombie Queen (whose diet is mainly limited to scavenging human brains from the corpses of those too [...]

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