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

[silverjackal]

These are all great, but I particularly like the swamp wallaby. He or she has enormous presence for what is likely a very cryptic species in the wild. My other favorite is of course the wombat! :D Who doesn't love wombats (cross and fearsome with the claws though they may be)?

[adeliej]

Wombats are wonderful creatures.
Friends of mine, who live on a 40 acre property in the middle of a national park, look after orphaned native animals. One wombat they looked after came back every week or so for years after they released her into the wild, and it was very hard to convince her to leave - she would sit on your feet if you opened the door. She was very friendly.

[moonvoice]

Yeah, I've heard that wombats can be hard to rehabilitate because they attach and bond really strongly (same with some of the macropods). I'm glad that the wombat still went off into the wild though!

[moonvoice]

That wombat was adorable, and quite active. Glen and Putu actually got to interact with him (while I was off in another exhibit). As far as wombats go, he's had a lot of handling, and is quite docile.