QUOKKA

Photographed on Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

69                   QUOKKA                 Setonix brachyurus

AUSTRALIA                69

Rare and restricted in sw WA and on Rottnest Island. Mostly nocturnal; gregarious in large groups at good food sources. Browses and grazes, eating grasses, sedges, succulents and foliage of shrubs.