Marsupials

Yes. Gamba Grass is one of the introduced weeds which poses a threat to native wildlife. It is highly invasive, out-competing native grasses. It affects the Northern quoll because it is a high biomass pasture grass that tends to promote very hot, intense fires during the late dry season. Gamba Grass fires are eight times hotter and more intense than those produced by native grasses. This poses a risk to the Northern Quoll by either killing them directly in the fires, or removing the availability of shelter and habitat to protect the quoll from predators.

Marsupials are mammals generally with pouches in which they rear their young. Marsupial young are characterised by being extremely small and undeveloped at birth. At birth, they take a long, arduous journey from the birth canal, driven purely by instinct, grabbing hold of the mother marsupial's fur which she has cleaned and made easier to traverse with saliva, to reach the pouch. Upon reaching the pouch, they latch onto a teat which swells in their mouth to prevent them from being accidentally dislodged during the mother's movements. There they stay for months, to complete their development.

Not all marsupials have pouches, e.g. the numbat has a mere flap of skin, but in animals where the pouch is absent, the young are still born undeveloped, and they cling by instinct to the underside of their mother's belly, still firmly attached to teats which swell in their mouths.

Female marsupials have two vaginas, or what are called paired lateral vaginae. These are for the purpose of transporting the sperm to the womb, but there is a midline pseudovaginal canal for actually giving birth. As well as two vaginas and two uteruses, female marsupials have two fallopian tubes and two cervixes. Most male marsupials, with the exception of the largest species, the Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey and Western Grey Kangaroos, have a "bifurcated" or two-pronged penis to accommodate the females' two vaginas

No. Mammals are divided into three infraclasses: monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. A giraffe is a placental mammal. This means that the baby is born live, and that it is born developed enough that it will not have to immediately crawl onto the mother's nipple and attach itself. In fact, baby giraffes can walk seconds after being born.

The quoll is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a native cat.

Not at all. Both sugar gliders and bats are mammals, but that is where the connection ends.

Sugar gliders are marsupials and members of the Australian possum family, while bats are placental mammals. Sugar gliders are also not capable of free flight. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

Of the four species of quoll in Australia, only the Western quoll and the Northern quoll are found in western Australia.

The Western quoll is found in wet sclerophyll and dry sclerophyll bushland and mallee remnants in the southwestern corner of the state. It used to be found right across arid and semi-arid regions, with the exception of the far north of the state.

The Northern quoll is restricted to just the Hamersley Range and Kimberley of northwest and northern Western Australia. It used to be found in a much greater range through the north.

A wallaby, a rock-wallaby, a nail-tail wallaby, a wallaroo, a dorcopsis wallaby, a tree-kangaroo, a Quokka, a Swamp Wallaby, a pademelon, and a hare-wallaby are all smaller relatives of the kangaroo.

However, the only ones to fit the description of "small" are the quokka, pademelon, potoroo and the bettong. The smallest of all the kangaroo family is the musky rat-kangaroo, which is an average of 23 cm in length.

its 1 in 10,000 chances so it really hard to get by breeding them.

Actually, you can find a breeder with them for sale. Like Priscilla Price! She is located in Houston, Texas. Her website is

http://www.thepetglider.com

There are a bunch of breeders out there that have Leuscistic gliders as pets, breeders and for sale.

Koalas can live up to 18 years if they live in secure, protective captivity where the habitat emulates their native environment. Here, they are free from predation by domestic dogs; there is no risk of them being hit by a car; and little chance of them being infected by a disease such as chlamydia. These three things are the leading causes of koala deaths.

Golden bandicoots are omnivorous. They dig for arthropods and tubers in the topsoil of their habitat.

Given that sugar gliders live in both bushland (dry sclerophyll woodland) and rainforest, there are many animals which may live in the same biome. They can include various other possums and gliders, koalas (eucalyptus bushland), quolls, short-beaked echidnas, wallabies and bandicoots.

No. Numbats feed almost exclusively on termites, although they do sometimes eat ants as well. They do not eat any vegetation.

Koalas are not bears.

And yes they do, as they are marsupials. (It should be noted that not all marsupials actually have pouches.) Marsupials generally have pouches in which the young develop. An exception to this is the numbat.

No. there are more koalas than numbats. Koalas are found over a wider ranging area than numbats. Estimates of the koala population in Australia range between 80,000 and 100,000. Estimates of the numbat population, by contrast, are between 900 and 1500.

Quolls, sometimes incorrectly referred to as native cats, can be found in Australia and New Guinea. There are four types of quoll in Australia.

1. Spotted tailed quolls, or tiger quolls, live in bushland, coastal heathland and

rainforest along the eastern coast of Australia.

2. Northern quolls live in rocky areas and eucalyptus bushland from southeast Queensland right along the northern coast to northwestern Western Australia.

3. Eastern quolls live in a range of habitats, from heavily wooded bushland and rainforest, to grasslands and even agricultural fringes in Tasmania. They are extinct on the mainland.

4. The Western quoll, also known as the Chuditch, has retreated to just the far southwestern corner of the Australian continent. It used to be found in Queensland, but has not been sighted there for decades.

Within their habitat, quolls shelter in hollow logs, rock crevices or burrows in the sand.

A numbat is a small, squirrel-sized, insectivorous marsupial of Australia, now only found in the far southwestern corner of the mainland. Unlike most marsupials, it does not have a pouch for the young, but they cling to the mother's underbelly fur whilst attached to a teat. The numbat has red-brown fur with six or seven white stripes across its back. It has a relatively long, bushy tail. The numbat feeds primarily on termites, so is sometimes referred to as a banded anteater. It has a lifespan of 5-6 years in captivity, but it is highly endangered, and its lifespan in the wild is shorter.

Little is known about the pig-footed bandicoot. Given that it lived in the deserts of central and Western Australia, the most likely cause of its extinction was the introduction of non-native predators such as foxes and feral cats. The pig-footed bandicoot relied on certain environmental conditions, and it is certain that, as the aboriginal population declined and fire regimes subsequently changed, that this impacted on the animal's environment, as there was little new growth of vegetation. Also, the introduction of non-native herbivores such as rabbits, sheep and cattle greatly impacted on its food supply.

All mammals feed on mothers' milk when they are babies. Marsupials are a sub-group of mammals, so they also feed on mothers' milk. the other sub-group of mammals are the monotremes, or egg-laying mammals (platypuses and echidnas). Although they lay eggs, they are also classified as mammals because they feed their young on mothers' milk.

Sugar gliders are not regarded as exotic within Australia, because they are native to Australia.

Sugar gliders are only exotic to countries outside of their native habitat. This would include the UK or the USA.

Exact numbers of Eastern Quolls are not know. The animal's population is believed to have declined in the past decade, and they have been extinct on the mainland since 1963. They are now found only in Tasmania.