What's a Quokka? Or a Bilby?

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Fri 29 May 2009, 8:12, archived)

Native Aussie Animals
www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/quokka.jpg is a Quokka

www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Zoology/ClassMammalia/Mammals/OrderPeramelemorphia/bilby.jpg is a bilby


Sorry for the long links. :(
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 May 2009, 8:17, archived)

Awww!
I want a pet Bilby! Look at those ears!
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Fri 29 May 2009, 8:22, archived)

their ears are pretty soft
I got to pat one once - they're critically endangered. There's less then 1000 of them I think. Introduction of foxes meant they were almost completely wiped out. They have a breeding program at this place up in Queensland - way way north.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 May 2009, 8:25, archived)