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While undignified, checking eastern quoll teeth can tell us a lot about their lives. Looking at how worn down their teeth are can tell us their age, and broken/missing teeth can explain why a quoll is loosing weight.

4 year old quoll canines are often worn down to stumps!

juvenile quolls 🤝 banjo music

An eastern quoll peeking out from a nest of dry grass

📣 New quoll science, looking at the genetic outcomes of a translocation of eastern quolls in Tasmania! 🧪🧬

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Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025

Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4

See you there!

A photo of grass and leaves on the ground with a vhf tag wrapped in tape visible

Dropped eastern quoll VHF trackers can be real sneaky and hard to find, dropped in burrows, in log piles and sometimes just camouflaged. Can you spot the VHF tag in this image?

This photo was taken while pinpointing a signal, without realising the tag was in frame!
#wildoz

David Hamilton releases a quoll into the wild Photo credit: Cath Dickson

A close up of quoll feet Photo credit: David Hamilton

A close up of a quoll in an enclosure Photo credit: Chloe Frick

Celebrating a wildlife win on World Wildlife Day, with quoll-ity conservation outcomes 🤩

Our scientists joined with several partners to kick off one of the biggest eastern quoll conservation efforts ever seen in Tasmania!

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