New ban on dangerous rodent poisons is lifeline for our native animals Rat and mouse baits are an everyday product. But these chemicals can persist in the tissues of rodents that eat them for months and poison native animals.

I really didn't think this would finally happen in Australia. Our country has the worst record for species extinction on the planet.
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Cats kill our <5kg mammals & birds, this is 150 y old brick I discovered 700 mm deep under steps, 1871 house Bendigo.
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Our trees are chipped for cardboard. Here's cardboard used to create some of the unique mammals Australia is losing.
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What an incredibly sad article.

And how awful that Australia continues in it’s shameful place as the top country in the world for #mammal extinctions.

What a legacy we’ve lost 😞
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I would love to be able to nap like this during the day.

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We've lived on this property for 13 years and I've been trying to catch a quoll on my trail cams basically since we moved in. Never seen one. But today one turned up and tried to break into the (fortunately secure) aviary. This is the most exciting thing ever. #wildoz #ausmammals

Did you know it’s an offence in Western Australia under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 to feed native fauna without a licence, it can attract fines up to $20,000

Instead:
🌱 put native plants in your garden
💧 leave out fresh water

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Quintessentially Australian - the #echidna and the #platypus, two egg laying #monotremes.

Looking closely, it seems the echidna’s back legs are depicted the wrong way round, facing forwards rather then backwards 🤔
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Koala scats (pooh) in our garden

Every time the weather turns bad these scats turn up under a big old pine tree. My theory is a Koala is using the pine as a shelter tree. We have seen her here a couple of times but she is very hard to find.
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Check out our journal #australianmammalogy - first observation of grey-headed flying foxes roosting in western New South Wales (Mo et al, 2025) - nearly 300km from nearest known roost! 📸 Andrew Mercer #wildoz #ausmammals @csiropublishing.bsky.social

The only known photograph of a living Nullarbor barred bandicoot - extinct since the 1930s, discovered recently in a basement! Read the paper in our journal, #australianmammalogy #ausmammals #extinction #wildoz lnkd.in/gQCaTzEq

A wombat grazing peacefully on a field of green grass, which was under a raging torrent of floodwater a week ago.

Happy to see at least one of the local wombats survived the flooding and is back home. #wildoz #ausmammals

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FUZZBALL FRIDAY: today's creature feature is the Honey Possum (Tarsipes rostratus). Australia's own Winnie the Pooh, this pint-sized pollen-guzzler is the only species in its family, has fewer teeth than the average marsupial, and a brush-shaped tongue. What a delightful little weirdo! #ausmammals

Mummy & baby possum banging around on the loud metal fence: I’ve never seen a possum wag its tail like this before.
We have cohabitation between brushtail and ringtail possums here - not sure if it’s peaceful, but I saw a ringtail on the same fence only a few weeks ago.
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Save this for when somebody tells you Australian mammals are boring...✨🐨🦘✨ Also, if you like mammal-themed shenanigans, come find us on Instagram. #ausmammals #wildoz

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goat with red head, long ears, horns and a white body gazes into the lens against a green background.

Boer Goat at Oxley Creek Common wonders what the silly human is doing.
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🦭 Neil’s chin rolls are unmatched 🫶 #Neiltheseal
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Portrait of a large black bat with ginger fur around the nape of its neck, and its wings wrapped around itself. Bat is peering directly into the camera.

They may have the prettiest puppy faces, but they don't half stink.
Black Flying-Fox (Pteropus alecto), Anzac Park, Toowong, Brisbane.
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Large sleeping black bat with wings wrapped around itself and its offspring.

Mother and child - Black Flying-Fox (Pteropus alecto), Anzac Park, Toowong, Brisbane. Junior has what looks 2 spiders on its head.
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Licence to Kill — The shocking scale of native wildlife killing in Australia - copied - Humane Society International (HSI) Humane Society International Australia (HSI) has released Licence to Kill, a report that reveals how licenced private landholders are killing native Australian wildlife at scale. The report shows that...

in spite of the fact that Australia has one of the highest extinction rates globally, >4.5Million of our Native Wildlife have been legally killed from 2021-23.
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Licence to Kill — The shocking scale of native wildlife killing in Australia - copied - Humane Society International (HSI) Humane Society International Australia (HSI) has released Licence to Kill, a report that reveals how licenced private landholders are killing native Australian wildlife at scale. The report shows that...

Meanwhile, >4.5Million Native Animals/Birds etc have been legally killed from 2021-23, in spite of the fact that Australia has one of the highest extinction rates globally.
Report: hsi.org.au/wp-content/u...

#WildOz #AusWildlife #AustralianWildlife #ozbirds #ausmammals

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Spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) have distinctive straw-coloured fur around the eyes which gives them their name. The Baby Yoda-lookalikes have the smallest known distribution and population of the four Australian mainland Pteropus flying foxes. They play an important role in the rain forest as pollinators and seed dispersers. An endangered Australian mammal, it's found in north-east Queensland and on the Torres Strait Islands, as well as in Papua New Guinea, parts of Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. Surveys have shown a dramatic decline of over 90% in the population of the Spectacled Flying-fox over in a 15-year period from 1985-2000, going from 820,000 to just 80,000 over this time. Photo by CSIRO.

Spectacled Flying Fox, it is.

and…
May the force be with you.

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My favourite #kangaroo photo from our trip to #stradbrokeisland
Also the first kangaroo we saw. 🤩

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Slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

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Photo of a platypus floating on top of a muddy dam with its beaver-like tail towards the camera. Its grey beak is moving as it grinds up food - probably insect larvae or baby crayfish - that it found at the bottom of the water.

There's a platypus in our dam so it must be #WebFootWednesday !! It's raining so I only had a little camera with me.

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Photo of a wallaby, which is like a small kangaroo, sitting in leaf litter. It's sitting on its tail, which is lying on the ground in front of it with one large foot on either side. Its paws are resting on its belly and eyes are partially shut and looking very chilled.

Until I saw this Bennetts Wallaby do this, I had no idea that macropods sometimes like to just sit on their tails and relax.
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Night-vision (black and white) photo, taken from the side, of a sleek mammal on a fallen log in a forest. Its head is down, sniffing the log. Its tail, which is as long as its body, is held out behind it with a bend 2/3 of the way down. The body, legs and tail are covered with white spots of various size.

I just checked the camera at the quoll spot we have a new young one. By comparing unique spot patterns I've identified at least 21 individual spotted-tailed quolls in the three years we've lived here.
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