Photo/s of the day. Mammals and marsupials.

[moonvoice]

My hair is a lot shorter now.
Also, it's a dark brown-red.
I'm a fan.
Glen's a fan.
My cats were like 'what the fuck? Get that chemical shit away from us right now.'


I am the prettiest white tammar wallaby out of all the white tammar wallabies.





Bennett's wallaby.






Oh hai, I'm totally feral in Australia, and yet there are more of me in Melbourne city than there are in the entire UK. I like to eat native animals and birds, and I'm still awesome.





Fiiiiiiierce.





Fruit bats are like so cute, even if they do pass on horrendously fatal diseases.





They were also quite active!





I'm a koala. I'm stoned. My breath smells like lozenges.





Leucistic (NOT albino) red kangaroo. With a 'I'm probably too big to really adequately fit in here anymore' joey. It's probably reached that point where Mum is like, 'now, honey, you have a job and really are quite capable of getting around on your own now oh what the fuck, I'm taking a nap.)





Putu, Glen and I decided that this red kangaroos sleeps like Moet sleeps.





Another red kangaroo.





A whole trio of red kangaroos!





I quite liked these guys.





Swamp wallaby.





Also a swamp wallaby.





Aside from the fact that it looks like a giant white rat, the leucistic tammar wallabies are really quite beguiling.





OH YEAH, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, OH YEAH. (This, for the record, is a wombat)

Comments

[stormerider]

Amazing photos! I've never seen a wombat or a wallaby before... I didn't realize that wallabies had hands like that. They remind me of rat hands... very articulated. Cool :) Thanks for sharing :)

[moonvoice]

Their paws are adorable and very agile (and in some cases brutal, if they need to be). But having little kangaroo paws resting against your legs while they look at you searchingly is quite something else. There are over 40 species of wallaby in Australia, and many different species of kangaroo too. :)

[stormerider]

Yeah, I think rat hands are cute, actually :) I don't really get why people are squicked out by them, but a friend of mine had a pet rat and I thought it was as cool as the ferrets another friend had. And I would not want to be scratched by a ferret or a rat... their paws may be tiny but their claws are sharp! I imagine the same is true of wallabies.

Kangaroos have always fascinated me. I'd love to have a chance to see one in person some day.

[moonvoice]

And I would not want to be scratched by a ferret or a rat... their paws may be tiny but their claws are sharp! I imagine the same is true of wallabies.

Especially considering the massive size difference with most of them! Can be very nasty.

I hope you get to see them in person one day too. They're quite something else. We see them in the wild regularly, and even though I've lived here all my life; it's still awesome.

[frith]

You want razor sharp? Try the thumb claws on those flying foxes. If they don't like you and can't get away they can slash with those claws.

[stormerider]

... flying foxes? *blinks* I've heard of flying squirrels (which one of our cats took great pride in catching) but never flying foxes. *goes off to Google*

Edit: Oh, ok, I've heard of fruit bats, but never heard them called flying foxes before. Learn something new every day :)

[moonvoice]

Yeah, I prefer fruit bats myself, but flying foxes is a pretty common term here; esp. in the Eastern states and elsewhere in the world. I stick with fruit bats, since it's a more accurate term.

[moonvoice]

Try the thumb claws on those flying foxes. If they don't like you and can't get away they can slash with those claws.

Oh, I never said wallaby/kangaroo claws are razor sharp! That's taking it a bit far. Only that they can do some damage if they want to.