What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before? Peter Banks + Finn Parker from University of Sydney have the answer: theconversation.com/unique-study-s…

The tiny native chuditch - all but wiped out 100 years ago - are now breeding at a protected site in WA's Wheatbelt.Phoebe Pin ABC Perth ABC News abc.net.au/news/2023-08-0…

Golden Bandicoots return to Central Australia after 56-year absence abc.net.au/news/2023-08-1… via ABC Australia

Introducing the newest member to the Taronga family – Matilda 💚💛 Named in honour of our incredible women’s soccer team the CommBank Matildas and their record breaking representation at the @fifawomensworldcup 🏆 Thank you for inspiring a nation. Chris Minns Penny Sharpe

QUOLL BABIES! Here's a fawn-coloured & a dark-coloured eastern #quoll, both with full pouches of mini-quolls just starting to get their spots, but we don't know what colours they'll be yet. #Quolls can produce a mix of colour babies (a litter of 6 can have 6 fathers). #fieldwork

Talk about a JUMP scare! The Bilby population at Mallee Cliffs National Park (NSW) is growing in leaps and bounds - more than doubling since their reintroduction in 2019. 📈 🎥 J Holding/AWC

There’s a new wild population of #takahe in NZ! With Ngāi Tahu and supported by Fulton Hogan we’ve released 18 takahē to the Greenstone Valley near Queenstown - a site where they haven’t lived for over a century. Here’s the last pair heading off to their new home. #conservation

We were trying to survey bandicoots this week at Mt Gibson, but ended up catching more hopping mice (both Mitchell's and Spinifex) like this one. It's not quite what we hoped for, but it's hard to complain when the hoppers are this cute and are clearly doing well. 🤷 #WildOz

Your friendly reminder that Australia gets to share the quoll love with our nearest neighbours. There are two endemic species found in PNG and West Papua - the Papuan or New Guinea quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus) and the bronze quoll (D. spartacus)

I just realized I never posted this to Twitter and I apologize for y'all almost missing out on sleeping baby beaver content (said beaver is getting treatment for a broken leg at a wildlife rehabber, do not try to treat wildlife on your own!)

Much more than a house mouse 🐭 This little, fragile fellow is a New Holland Mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae). Read 'The threatened species we don't talk about' to learn about other threatened species that exist beyond the spotlight 👉bushheritage.org.au/blog/threatene… 📷Bruce Thomson

Get smart: Are #Bilbies developing anti-predator behaviour? 🤔 Bilbies may not be as naïve to feral cats as previously thought, according to #research undertaken at #AWC's Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary (WA)👇 australianwildlife.org/get-smart-are-…

I LOVE BANDICOOTS! This week we're checking up on them one month after their re-introdution to Newhaven's feral predator-free sanctuary. #ecology #conservation

Using their mouth and paws, Eurasian harvest mice weave tiny spherical nests out of grass and reeds. Sometimes they use these structures as a shelter, but when a female mouse is expecting a litter, she will build a special nest to house her young. 📸Assistant Supervisor Veronica

A new study by Ph.D. candidate @SarahLJacobson1 and her advisor Prof. Joshua Plotnik (@CCCAnimals) shows that wild elephants have unique puzzle-solving skills – which could have implications for conservation gc.cuny.edu/news/wild-asia… GC CUNY Psychology Hunter College

Elliott trap or bandicoot snack machine? Love these images captured from a camera trap set by a student on my recent University of Southern Queensland wildlife field trip! #wildoz #ecology #bandicoot

I don't know about you, but nothing would make me happier than a toilet FULL of frogs. 🐸🐸🐸

Construction never stops for the #GreaterStickNestRat! When their babies are born, they latch securely onto Mum's teats to be carted everywhere, before being carried on their backs until they are weaned at one month. 🎥Mt Gibson (WA). Renée Firman's Furee Lab/UWA

Do you like solving puzzles? Woylies and koomal do too! Dr Misha Rowell and I documented their problem solving attempts for the first time in Dryandra National Park. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/aec.13…

Great to work with Tash Harrison on this 😁 OA article can be read here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aec.13…