Category: Wild

Gilbert’s potoroo or ngilkat, scientific name Potorous gilbertii is Australia’s most endangered marsupial and one of many world’s rarest critically endangered mammals. It is a small […]

Striped Grass Mouse, scientific name Lemniscomys barbarus is the one discovered north of the Sahara. They are typically present in grassy habitats, however, the place […]

The desert rat-kangaroo, scientific name Caloprymnus campestris, additionally known as the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo, or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to […]

The musky rat-kangaroo, scientific name Hypsiprymnodon moschatus is a small marsupial discovered solely within the rainforests of northeastern Australia. First described within the later 19th century, […]

The northern brown bandicoot, the scientific name Isoodon macrourus, a marsupial species, is a bandicoot discovered solely on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia […]

The western quoll, scientific name Dasyurus geoffroii is Western Australia’s largest endemic mammalian carnivore. One of the various marsupial mammals native to Australia, it is […]

The Tasmanian devil, scientific name Sarcophilus harrisii obtained its name from early European settlers who upon listening to mysterious unearthly screams, coughs, and growls from […]

The eastern quoll, schientific name Dasyurus viverrinus, previously generally known as the eastern native cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. Eastern […]

The striped polecat, scientific name Ictonyx striatus – additionally known as the African polecat, zoril, zorille, zorilla, Cape polecat, and African skunk – is a member […]