When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. “I’ve given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls.”
But he said the spotted-tailed quoll was “considered extinct” in the region.
Mr Anderson said his team was keen to determine where the animal came from and whether it is part of a larger population.
Critically endangered population drops The spotted-tailed quoll is the largest quoll species in Australia, approximately twice the size of the western quoll, which was reintroduced into the Flinders Ranges in South Australia as part of Operation Bounceback in 2019.
Chook= chicken in australianese. (I had to look that up.)
Thank you. But what the hell is a quoll? It looks like a something out of Dead Alive.
A nocturnal carnivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea, 300 g (11 oz) to 7 kg (15 lb) depending on species – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll
That’s a new word to me too.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge. So cool! I swear Australia gets the best damn critters, deadly or otherwise.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Drop Bears?
According to wikipedia it’s related to a Tasmanian devil… so sort of like this…
I too have watched that excellent documentary series.
BRB gotta choke me chook
Thanks for doing the heavy lifting
I thought I was falling back asleep or having a stroke