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?

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

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

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

Wut dat noolbenger do doh?

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

The numbat looks so noble 😍

Whats that middle one?

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.

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

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.

Where's Muad'Dib?

No Phascogale? 🤔😁

What about bandicoots?

Tell me more about ant tech anuses.

Take a look at that snout!