Friday, December 29, 2017

MOUNTAIN BRUSHTAIL POSSUM

Photographed in the Snowy Mountains, east of Adaminaby, NSW, December 2017

94                     MOUNTAIN BRUSHTAIL POSSUM                  Trichosurus cunninghami

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                 94

Also known as Southern Bobuck. Nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial. Only described as separate species in 2002. Usually found in wet sclerophyll forest in se Australia along to the south and east of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia from southern Victoria to se Queensland.





INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN

Photographed at Tin Can Bay, Queensland, January 2021   129                   INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN             Sousa chinensis AUST...