Two decades of capturing numbat antics on camera Lyn Alcock is known as the 'Numbat whisperer', spending hours every day observing and photographing the tiny, endangered marsupials, recording behaviours that have never been seen before.

Lovely article about numbat photography and conservation in Dryandra Woodland, WA. If you’d like to start the year with more numbats in your timeline, this article has some sweet moments captured by photographer Lyn Alcock.

#Numbats #Wildlife #Conservation #Australia

Grateful to be part of the NUMBATs Hackathon in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Each year brought new ideas, challenges, and amazing people. Big thanks to the uni and everyone who made it such a great experience! ✨💡

#NUMBATs #Hackathon #DataScience #Stats #MonashUni

vibrant acrylic painting of a trio of numbats sitting together on a log

For #WorldNumbatDay :
Wendy Binks (Australia)
Wide World, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 56 x 4cm
www.numbat.org.au/news/2015/5/...
#ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists #Marsupials #Numbats

Registro de filhotes de um dos mais raros mamíferos do mundo é prova de sucesso da reintrodução da espécie na Austrália Levados à extinção na região de Nova Gales do Sul, na Austrália continental, por causa da introdução de espécies exóticas como gatos e raposas, em 2020 foi iniciado um programa de reintrodução dos num...

Pausa para um momento fofura: cinco anos depois do início do programa de #reintrodução, pesquisadores da Australian Wildlife Conservancy celebram flagrante de diversos filhotes e jovens #numbats em duas áreas de proteção; o Santuário de Vida Selvagem Scotia e o Parque Nacional dos Penhascos Mallee

A two-page spread from the book Wild by Jack Ashby, with illustrations by Sara Boccaccini Meadows of an aardvark, echidna, giant anteater, pangolin, northern flicker, and numbat.

A photo of a wild numbat bathed in low, golden morning sun, on the forest floor

A close-up photo of an echidna on sandy soil with leaf-litter

I'm slowly ticking off finding animals featured in my book WILD (although some of the extinct ones might be tricky 😄), and here's TWO from the chapter about species that have snouts specially adapted to ant-eating. #Numbats and #echidnas are Australia's awesome anteaters. #MammalWatching #WildOz

Where you find termites & ants, you find animals that eat termites & ants.
Africa has aardvarks & pangolins. Asia has pangolins & sloth bears. The Americas have anteaters. Lots of places have woodpeckers & flickers. But Australia does it better than anywhere: #numbats (& echidnas).🐜 #MammalWatching

A numbat on the forest floor

Australia has SO MANY TERMITES, so it's weird that only one of its native #marsupials is specialised to eat them: the #numbat. And #numbats themselves are unusual among anteating mammals, as they don't have strong digging claws: they just snaffle termites as they move through their shallow tunnels.

#Numbats once lived across much of southern Australia, but by the 1980s they could only be found in two tiny patches of forest in southwest #WesternAustralia, due to introduced cats and foxes. They're the only member of their family, and I'm so very glad they were protected before it was too late.

We've come to southwest #WesternAustralia to search for #numbats, but I'll never complain about finding Australia's other specialist anteating mammal instead 🤩.
#echidna #MammalWatching #WildOz #echidnas #MonotremeMonday

Go get ‘em Jack !! @jackdashby.bsky.social #numbats #wildlife

A list of my 20 Australian expeditions

Toby Nowlan and B Jack Ashby

20 years ago was my first trip to Australia - a place that became central to my life as a zoologist & writer. That trip was with my
#MammalWatching partner Toby Nowlan (who's now a brilliant wildlife filmmaker). Now, for my 20th trip, we're here together again, searching for #numbats. Wish us luck!

Numbats’ stripes help them blend into the woodland floor during the day, protecting them from predators! Learn how PHCC is helping protect them in Dryandra Woodland 👉peel-harvey.org.au/.../Numbat-Project_2024_...

#NaturalHeritageTrust #Numbats

Joey sightings a welcome sign for this endangered WA marsupial Conservation scientists credit the curbing of introduced predators with a rebound in the population of endangered iconic numbats in Western Australia.

For anyone who needs more numbats in their timeline right now. A nice article about conservation, but also includes photos of a numbat stretching. Numbat blep. Floofy numbats. Mini numbat joeys.

#Numbats #Australia #Wildlife #Conservation

A numbat on wood. ccby ©Kym Nicolson

1/5 #MammalMonday The #numbats (Myrmecobius fasciatus) are small, insectivorous #marsupials native to southwestern #Australia, notable for their distinctive appearance and specialized diet. Measuring about 30 to 45 cm long, including their tail, numbats are recognized by their 🦊🌍🦤

It was wonderful to contribute to #TheWorldsMostExcitingClassroom and the #Dawin2000 voyage with a chat about the thermal biology of #echidnas and #numbats; two unusually diurnal Australian mammals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48B...

digital scan of the original drawing, numbat in side profile in a landscape eating ants/termites, black/white pen & ink with handwritten title and notes (transcribed in post)

For #WorldNumbatDay:
"An ant-eater, Fowlers Bay, South Australia" by Edward Russell, 1870
pen & ink, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
inscription: "Length fr. top of nose to top of tail 10 inches, colour a red brown & white stripes."
National Library of Australia:
catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/425038
#numbat #numbats