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Each name sounds more Australian than the last.
Numbats? Dunnarts?
These names aren’t all Australian colloquialisms for “dumb”… are they??
Also… no love for the Cult of Quoka? I mean seriously, look at these guys? How is anything that cute?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of these used to mean “dumb”, apart from “numbat”.
If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.
I was so sure some of these names were made up.
If you think about it… all names were made up at one point or another.
All words, even.
Careful - some of these are Australian and will try to kill you.
Whats that middle one?
Wut dat noolbenger do doh?
I was shocked an Aussie to learn that my American boyfriend had never heard of bilbies…
The numbat looks so noble 😍
Fuzzy slinky
Australia used to have the “Easter bilby” in addition to the more common overseas Easter bunny. Sadly I think stores stopped selling chocolate Easter bilbies; I don’t recall seeing any this year.
I are a choccie Bilby this Easter so definitely still around.
I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.
From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.
No Pika? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
What’s funny with all these small, narrow-snouted bug-eating mammals is you can never guess what bigger mammal they’re more closely related too by a pic alone because this body plan is present in all therians, possibly because it was the best suited to survive the KT-extinction. So while you’d be tempted to call all of them rodents, you’ve got tree shrews closer to primates, tenrecs closer to elephants, and possums closer to kangaroos than they are to mice.
Edit: Also I checked those from the pic and they’re all marsupials, like possums.
as an aussie, it’s pretty safe to assume marsupial… basically everything here is a marsupial
Where’s Muad’Dib?
No Phascogale? 🤔😁
Take a look at that snout!
