Hidden within the tropical rainforests of North Queensland lives one of Australia’s most elusive marsupial predators — the northern spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus gracilis). The northern subspecies of the spotted-tailed quoll, it is restricted to North Queensland and is listed as Endangered. A powerful and highly mobile predator, it occupies rainforest and adjoining forest habitats […]
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‘Taking back the desert’: can Australia’s small marsupials learn how to live alongside their predator, the feral cat?
In the middle of the Australian outback’s arid deserts, many of the country’s distinctive small marsupials – the bilbies, bandicoots and quolls – have been missing for a century or more, wiped out by land clearing and the hunting prowess of feral cats. Felis catus – introduced by European invaders and settlers – was too […]