Quolls, Short-beaked Echidnas and Platypus are mediumsize, while Water Rats, rats, Brush-tailed Phascogales, microbats, dunnarts and antechinuses are small predators.
The first eastern
quolls in 50 years have been born in the wild on the Australian mainland, with the rice-grain-sized pups offering hope to a species of marsupial devastated by foxes.
By analysing the DNA in the Tiger
Quolls' scats you can find information about their sex, diet and distribution.
1999: Phylogeographical population structure of the tiger
quolls Dasyurus maculates (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia), an endangered carnivorous marsupial.
Male Northern
quolls live fast and die young in a romantic frenzy of long-distance travel.
The scientists' solution - he claimed - is to feed the
quolls "cane toad sausages" that have the toads' poison replaced by a drug that makes them sick.
Two rare swift parrots, a yellow-tailed black cockatoo and five
quolls -- a carnivorous native cat -- were among the animals still on the loose in what was described as a devastating blow for the zoo s breeding programme.
Even the biggest species,
quolls and Tasmanian devils, live only three to four years.'
Around 50,000 visitors a year come to see the wombats, wallabies,
quolls, sugar gliders, some 30 varieties of birdlife and the park's star attractions, the Tasmanian devils.
Researchers aren't necessarily dismissing the potential threat of cane toads, as they have had a negative impact on some insect populations and on the country's frog predators, including goannas (monitor lizards), freshwater crocodiles, king brown snakes, and northern
quolls, a cat-like marsupial.