Showing posts with label Eastern Barred Bandicoot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eastern Barred Bandicoot. Show all posts

Friday, January 19, 2018

EASTERN BARRED BANDICOOT

Photographed at Eaglehawk, Tasmania, January 2018
95                  EASTERN BARRED BANDICOOT                   Preameles gunnii

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS               95           

Found in ne 2/3 of Tasmania where vulnerable; also pockets in Victoria derived from captive-bred animals, endangered. Occupies grassland, pasture with patches of dense vegetation for shelter. Nocturnal, solitary, digs in topsoil for invertebrates and tubers.  




INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN

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