#marsupial
#Repost @cam_shoots_stuff with @make_repost
・・・
Two Northern koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) spend some quality time together in a eucalyptus tree.
Northern Koalas
Phascolarctos cinereus
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism @glamadelaide @australia @southaustralia
#koala #northernkoala #koalas #phascolarctoscinereus #marsupial #australia #australianwildlife #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide #cutenessoverload
#australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #australianwildlife #naturephotography #cute #fluffy #koalasofinstagram #iconic
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYc2jBRpWeQ/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
#Repost @cam_shoots_stuff with @make_repost
・・・
Why should the kookaburra have all the fun? A Southern Koala peeks out from behind eucalyptus leaves.
Southern Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism @glamadelaide @australia @southaustralia
#koala #southernkoala #koalas #peekaboo #phascolarctoscinereus #marsupial #australia #australianwildlife #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide
#australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #australianwildlife #naturephotography #cute #fluffy #koalasofinstagram #iconic
https://www.instagram.com/fangirlshandbag/p/CYaAtjeviUg/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
#Repost @cam_shoots_stuff with @make_repost
・・・
I know you guys have been waiting for this one!
Southern Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism @glamadelaide @australia @southaustralia
#koala #southernkoala #koalas #phascolarctoscinereus #marsupial #australia #australianwildlife #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide
#australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #australianwildlife #naturephotography #cute #fluffy #koalasofinstagram #iconic (at Cleland Wildlife Park)
https://www.instagram.com/fangirlshandbag/p/CYVUeLarLxb/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
#Repost @cam_shoots_stuff with @make_repost
・・・
A red kangaroo gets comfy on the slopes of Mount Lofty near Adelaide, South Australia.
Red Kangaroo
(Macropus rufus)
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park, Mount Lofty
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism @glamadelaide
#kangaroo #redkangaroo #Macropusrufus #kangaroosofinstagram #australia #australianwildlife #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide
#australianwildlife
#marsupial #wildlifephotography #australianwildlife #nap #naturephotography (at Cleland Wildlife Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPu1FMPvLz/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
RePosted @cam_shoots_stuff • A red kangaroo scours the slopes of Mount Lofty for its mid-morning snack.
Red Kangaroo
(Macropus rufus)
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park, Mount Lofty
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism @glamadelaide
#kangaroo #redkangaroo #Macropusrufus #australia #australianwildlife #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide #mountains #mountlofty
#australianwildlife
#marsupial #wildlifephotography #breakfast #naturephotography #repost4ig (at Cleland Wildlife Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNfQlPruNo/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
RePosted @cam_shoots_stuff
• Fred, the Cleland Wildlife Park’s Wombat Ambassador, bellies up to the trough for breakfast.
Fred passed away at the ripe old age of 20 in May 2021.
Common Wombat
(Vombatus ursinus)
Location: Cleland Wildlife Park, Mount Lofty
Photographed: October 2019
Adelaide, South Australia
@visit.adelaide @visit_adelaide
@cityofadelaide @clelandwildlifepark @adltourism
#commonwombat #barenosedwombat #coarsehairedwombat #wombat #Vombatusursinus #clelandwildlifepark #mountlofty #cityofadelaide
#australianwildlife
#marsupial #wildlifephotography #australianwildlife #breakfast (at Cleland Wildlife Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYDA_dTpo7G/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.
The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.
Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!
https://zoop.gg/c/almostrealvol5
Post link
Procoptodon - The giant short faced kangaroo
Mounted skeleton on display at Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia
Reconstruction by Peter Trusler.
When: Pleistocene (~ 2 million to 15,000 years ago)
Where: Throughout Australia
What:Procoptodon is a giant fossil kangaroo. Exactly how ‘giant’ it is has been a bit exaggerated, heights of up to 10 feet (~3 meters) have been reported, but this would have been its maximum height when it reared up fully on its hind legs, with its arms reaching up for high branches. Procoptodon was capable of this posture, but (like living kangaroos) it did not stand fully upright most of the time. In its normal feeding (and most everything else) poster it would have stood about 6.5 feet (~ 2 meters) tall; about the same height as the largest of the modern red kangaroos. Procoptodon was not the same size as these animals though, it was much more massive and would have been over twice the weight of a red kangaroo of equivalent height.
Procoptodon was very well adapted for the semiarid conditions that characterized much of Australia during the Pleistocene, but fossil remains have also been found in the more hospitable regions of prehistorical Australia. The marsupials of Australia are well known for their convergence evolution upon forms from other continents (such as the tasmanian tiger and the marsupial mole), but the kangaroo does not look like any placental mammal known. However, in terms of its lifestyle, the ecological niche that it inhabits, the group is convergent upon hoofed animals, such as deers! Procoptodon overlapped with human habitation of Australia, and it is thought some Aboriginal folktales are about this massive kangaroo.
Procoptodon is a member of the group Sthenurinae - the shortfaced kangaroos. As you probably guessed these kangaroos had much shorter snouts than the modern species of kangaroos. This group is completely extinct. It is one of the subgroups of the Macropodidae, the clade of marsupials that contains all kangaroos and wallabies, as well as a few other groups. It has been proposed that within the Macropodidae the closest living relative of Procoptodon is the Banded hare-wallaby, though this is not universally accepted.
In the prehistoric outback Procoptodon would have co-exsited with the largest marsupial of all time Diprodoton and was a hunted by the marsupial lion Thylacoleo. And the second link you can see this marsupial predator hunting a close relative of Procoptodon!
Post link
Rock Wallaby, Taronga Zoo Sydney
Nothing to see here. Just Gidgee, a juvenile rednecked wallaby, staring balefully at the intruding camera while holding onto a nipple she doesn’t want to lose track of. While that thought may have you thinking “ouch!”, marsupial nipples are highly specialized and are meant to extend that far when the joey is close to permanently leaving the pouch! When a joey is born and manages to crawl into the pouch, the nipples it finds there are also super tiny - once it latches on to one, the nipple actually grows so that it fills the joey’s mouth and they can’t disengage. This works really well since marsupial babies are born very premature and do most of their development in the pouch, so they need to be kept latched on to a food source until they’re functional enough to find the nipple again on their own. As the joey grows, the nipple changes size in parallel - and the concentration of the nutrients in the milk adjusts too - always staying large enough to fit in their mouth. Joeys continue to nurse during the period when they’re exploring outside of the pouch, and often after they’ve grown big enough they’ve had to pretty much leave it for good: and so the nipples adapt, to be long and flexible, so they can be easily accessed by a joey from the outside. After a joey weans, that teat will shrink back to being tiny, and wait for a new tiny bean baby to be born and start the process all over again! #sorrytointerrupt #marsupial #wallaby #redneckedwallaby #zoo #zooanimals #zooborns #nursing (at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Yd1YPhgPe/?igshid=1r0zmub7hx5md
Post link
Quokkas are to kangaroo rats as Man-Bat is to Batman. Which is to say, quokkas are rat kangaroos. They’re ugly, scruffy little sons of bitches, but I’ll be damned if they haven’t got something. They’ve got it, you know? That special something extra, that x factor. They look like they crawled out of an Australian sewer the morning after a mad scientist improperly disposed of some radioactive wallaby juice, but they kind of make it work. And since they’re from some of those random Australian islands with practically no predators, they aren’t afraid of people! So they’ll come right on up to you and get in your lap and let you scratch their little ears and obviously that can only mean something terrible. No matter how adorably curious they may be, if you even TOUCH one of those fuckers the Australian government will find out about it and ticket you for $300. That is so unfair! The quokka came on to me, officer. Make the fucking rat kangaroo pay the damn fine.
Post link
“Opposumology” and “underappreciated” combined! This little one is about to enjoy a jam-filled lemon poppy seed scone. (#ifyouknowyouknow)
Opposums are this strange mix of weird and cute, but they have reason to be appreciated as well! They are North America’s only marsupial, have prehensile tails and opposeable toe thumbs to help them climb. Opposums help keep tick populations down. They are immune to rabies, and also some snake bites because they eat snakes for breakfast! Valuable research for antivenoms is being done because of this.
Definitely just had fun on this one, while attempting to shift towards a different technique.
#gouache #illustration #paint #art #sketch #creation #nature #sciartober2021 #sciartober #drawlogies #drawlogies2021 #opposum #opposumology #scone #ologies #ologiesart #inktober #underappreciated #paint #marsupial
https://www.instagram.com/p/CU3KlgrpLw1/?utm_medium=tumblr
Post link
Thanks for the feedback on these wallaby stickers! They’re now up for pre-order, links below!
$5 each, free shipping worldwide! All proceeds will go to rescue/rehab and long-term habitat recovery through @wildlifevictoria and @nswnationalparks.
One design reflects the night sky over Australia, the other recalls the sun, land and people of the land. All in a cycle long before with the wallabies, and hopefully those that are will continue to be.
The change behind the design was after someone let me know me that wallabies were endangered because colonization had enroached greatly on their habitats. Learning about their situation yet still wanting a tie with this specific cause, I went further back for symbols that truly represented this area of land and sky itself.
Etsy:www.etsy.com/listing/771800771/fundraiser-for-australia-wallaby-sticker
Paypal:https://tinyurl.com/wallabysticker
Post link
Edited versions of my old thylacine woodcuts :)
I got a few messages about the availability of prints and since my Etsy shop is still in a wip state, I added them to my Redbubble profile. (But I wanted them to fit my current style a bit better, that’s why i changed them up a little. I think they look better this way)
Post link
“GOLDEN” POSSUM
Color morph of the Brush Possum
Trichosurus vulpecula
©blacksnakeproductions
Thecommon brushtail possum(Trichosurus vulpecula, from the Greek for “furry tailed” and the Latin for “little fox”, previously in the genus Phalangista[4]) is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia, and the second-largest of the possums.
Like most possums, the common brushtail possum is nocturnal. It is mainly a folivore, but has been known to eat small mammals such as rats. In most Australian habitats, leaves of eucalyptus are a significant part of the diet, but rarely the sole item eaten. The tail is prehensile and naked on its lower underside. The four color variations are silver-grey, brown, black, and gold. The gold looks remarkably like Pikachu ;)
Another shot ©sreinisch
VIDEO:
Mama and baby Golden Possume here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTP201cG5zw
Post link
This week’s watercolor was a short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossusaculeatus) and a numbat (Myrmecobiusfasciatus).
Want to see more? I stream these paintings on twitch at https://m.twitch.tv/bonesthedestroyeroflegos
Griffin Migration, 2022
Wrap-around cover for the Almost Real Zine (Vol. 5 - Mythology). As a long-time fan of the zine, it was a true honour to work on this!
Campaign is available through Zoop here. Editors of Almost Real are Hye Mardikian and Jay Eaton (@jayrockin) of Fortuna Media.
Post link
Today I found out the earliest known rodents are from AFTER the K-T extinction event that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs.
The things you do for unnecessary details on the dinosaur project thingy.
(for the record, was thinking of a drawing with some dinosaur bones with a skull, like the one time when me and a friend found an old, mossy deer skull in the woods as kids, but then thought it should probably have some tooth marks, since rodents have a habit of munching on bones to get calcium, but were there rodents in Campanian? And it turns out no, there probably wasn’t, and wonder if there was anything with teeth strong enough to leave gnaw marks on a bone besides, like, tyrannosaurs, and oh, hey, look, someone’s overthinking things again! Remember when this was supposed to be just made up fantasy setting with some flavor of dinosaur once upon a time? Me neither)
Alright, so these probably aren’t the precise ones you’re after (I think the bone bed is a little early and a little too west) but Filikomys primaevus was a species of burrowing marsupials found in Montana during the Cretaceous. They have rather rodent-like front teeth that are deeply rooted, so plausibly could have gnawed in a similar way!
Also that whole genus (and it’s family) is mostly known from their teeth, but fossilised teeth have been found across all north america and asia from most points in the Cretaceous, so you can plausibly say that something SIMILAR existed in the area of your dinosaur project.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/11/19/fossils-reveal-sociality-in-early-mammals/
