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A farmer set a trap to catch whatever was killing his chooks. He caught a quoll extinct in SA for 130 years (www.abc.net.au)

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When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. "I've given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls."

But he said the spotted-tailed quoll was "considered extinct" in the region.

Mr Anderson said his team was keen to determine where the animal came from and whether it is part of a larger population.

Critically endangered population drops The spotted-tailed quoll is the largest quoll species in Australia, approximately twice the size of the western quoll, which was reintroduced into the Flinders Ranges in South Australia as part of Operation Bounceback in 2019.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Chook= chicken in australianese. (I had to look that up.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you. But what the hell is a quoll? It looks like a something out of Dead Alive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A nocturnal carnivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea, 300 g (11 oz) to 7 kg (15 lb) depending on species -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll

That's a new word to me too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this knowledge. So cool! I swear Australia gets the best damn critters, deadly or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you sure you're not thinking of Drop Bears?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to wikipedia it's related to a Tasmanian devil.. so sort of like this.. tazmanian devil

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I too have watched that excellent documentary series.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

BRB gotta choke me chook

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought I was falling back asleep or having a stroke

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

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The original quoll escaped the cage Mr Tsai put it in but another one — or most likely the same one — was caught in another trap set by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) on Wednesday.

Following his incredible discovery, Mr Tsai has laid pieces of fish around his farm and set up a video camera overnight on Wednesday to see if he could get footage of other quolls.

Limestone Coast district ranger Ross Anderson said NPWS was "blown away" by the animal's re-emergence in the state after 130 years.

"Part of the reason they're thought to have become extinct here in the South East is due to a loss of habitat, but they can survive anywhere from forests to more open country," he said.

We wouldn't recommend people try to trap them or interact with them themselves, however – but trail cameras are a really good way of recording and monitoring any suspected quoll populations or activity in the local area."

They are mainland Australia's largest marsupial predator; a stealthy, elusive nocturnal hunter and scavenger that preys on small kangaroos and wallabies to possums, birds, reptiles, frogs and invertebrates.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How magical!!! Love that the farmer went out of his way to figure out what it was. Such an amazing recording... wonder how they how got there? Growing fat on his chooks though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also part of the "had to look it up" gang.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They're back... FOR REVENGE!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's incredible news!