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[–] FuglyDuck 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Numbats? Dunnarts?

These names aren’t all Australian colloquialisms for “dumb”… are they??

Also… no love for the Cult of Quoka? I mean seriously, look at these guys? How is anything that cute?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think I've ever heard any of these used to mean "dumb", apart from "numbat".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was so sure some of these names were made up.

[–] FuglyDuck 11 points 7 months ago

If you think about it… all names were made up at one point or another.

All words, even.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.

[–] spittingimage 8 points 7 months ago

Careful - some of these are Australian and will try to kill you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The numbat looks so noble 😍

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Fuzzy slinky

[–] FilthyShrooms 6 points 7 months ago

Whats that middle one?

[–] JayJLeas 6 points 7 months ago

I was shocked an Aussie to learn that my American boyfriend had never heard of bilbies...

[–] Acedia 6 points 7 months ago

Wut dat noolbenger do doh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

No Pika? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Australia used to have the "Easter bilby" in addition to the more common overseas Easter bunny. Sadly I think stores stopped selling chocolate Easter bilbies; I don't recall seeing any this year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.

From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I are a choccie Bilby this Easter so definitely still around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

What's funny with all these small, narrow-snouted bug-eating mammals is you can never guess what bigger mammal they're more closely related too by a pic alone because this body plan is present in all therians, possibly because it was the best suited to survive the KT-extinction. So while you'd be tempted to call all of them rodents, you've got tree shrews closer to primates, tenrecs closer to elephants, and possums closer to kangaroos than they are to mice.

Edit: Also I checked those from the pic and they're all marsupials, like possums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

as an aussie, it’s pretty safe to assume marsupial… basically everything here is a marsupial

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No Phascogale? 🤔😁

[–] TheBat 2 points 7 months ago

Where's Muad'Dib?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Take a look at that snout!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What about bandicoots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Tell me more about ant tech anuses.