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Jack Ashby

2 years

I am beyond exicted that my baby, " #PlatypusMatters : The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" is released into the wild TODAY. People are saying nice things about it, so I hope you like it. Here's a little 🧵to share what it's all about...

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1 year

OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum . None of the objects in here look like glass. Readers, they're all glass.

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6 months

After 20 years working in natural history #museums , I still get surprised with things like, "Oh look, there's a box of #penguins ". 📦🐧🐧

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5 years

I love watching #echidnas walk. It's like someone is learning how to operate a remote-controlled robot. #fieldwork #Tasmania #echidna #MammalWatching #WildOz #FieldworkFriday

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2 years

BIG THYLACINE NEWS! The remains of the last known thylacine have been found at @tasmuseum . Researchers have found: - the animal in the famous photos was *not* the last #thylacine at the zoo. - the last animal was female, not a male called Benjamin. 1/2

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5 years

MIND BLOWN: a #fungi expert sampled fifteen pieces of mushroom from a supermarket jar of porcini mushrooms. They found that there were three species in the jar, NONE of which were porcini mushroms, and ALL were unknown to science. 🤯🍄🤯🍄🤯🍄 @curataceae at #NatSCA2019

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11 months

ECHIDNA NEWS! Scientists have captured the first images of Attenborough's long-beaked #echidna . It was first described from a flattened skin with a crushed skull collected in 1961 but has not been seen since. This footage proves the population survives.1/2

Species of mammal named after David Attenborough believed extinct rediscovered

Long-beaked echidna with spines of a hedgehog and snout of an anteater photographed on last day of expedition

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

A #platypus clambering her way up a waterfall, foraging all the way. #Platypuses are surprisingly good climbers. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

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1 year

Nature is joy. This #platypus gave me possibly the most joyful 6 hours of my life as she foraged alongside me. She's using her bill to pick up the electrical signals given off by her prey's nervous system, sweeping her head like a metal-detector. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

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1 year

The #Blaschkas became famous for making glass models of sea creatures for #museums , because these soft-bodied animals could not be easily preserved. They shipped them to institutions across the world. Then @HarvardMuseum commissioned them to make the flowers exclusively.

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1 year

If you've ever wondered the anatomy behind #hamsters ' amazing ability to store so much food in their cheeks, this nifty preparation at @HarvardMuseum shows us how they do it. 🐹

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1 year

Because of the unique arrangement of their limbs, a #platypus can scratch itself between its shoulders with its back feet. #PlatypusLife #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses #MonotremeMonday

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4 years

84 years ago to the day, the last known #thylacine died of exposure - it was accidentally locked out of the indoor part of its zoo enclosure in Hobart on a cold night. #ThreatenedSpeciesDay #thylacines #ThylacineDay

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4 years

Mother and baby matching wombat bums. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

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@JackDAshby

4 years

Platypuses just keep surprising us - a new study finds that they fluoresce under UV light. But we don't know why. #MonotremeMonday #platypus #platypuses [📷Anich et al., Mammalia, 2020]

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5 years

As we release an eastern #quoll , he looks back as if to say, "I will remember you." And then he was gone. #fieldwork #Tasmania #quolls #marsupials #MammalWatching @davidghamilton1 #WildOz

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1 year

It's all glass. I can't get over it. 🤩 When I used to work with #Blaschka invertebrate models in my previous job at @GrantMuseum , it would terrify me to move them. They were nothing like as fragile and finely detailed as these plants. Hats off to the curators.

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2 years

This is quite probably the best book I've ever read about #museums (and I say that as someone who's written books about museums), and the best book I've ever read about art. I can't recommend it enough. Thanks for writing it, @aaprocter ! 📖

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1 year

The #Blaschkas ' work is incredible and unsurpassed. From root to petal to stamen to leaf. This gallery is unquestionably the greatest botanical display in any #museum on the planet. Only in rare instances that there is a tiny break in the glass is the illusion interrupted.

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6 years

Life is divided into two parts: Before you were stared down by three #SnowLeopards , and after you were stared down by three snow leopards. #MammalWatching #WildIndia

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7 years

Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached peak museum. It is not going to get better than this.

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11 months

There really is no doubt - #wombats are among the greatest things there have ever been. Even just stood around eating grass, they are glorious. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombat #WildOz

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6 years

I have never seen a lawn mower that can cut grass more efficiently (or adorably) than a wombat. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #MammalWatching #WildOz #Tasmania

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2 years

I was lucky enough to be shown the skin in the collections in July. This #thylacine was captured in 1936 and died months later at Hobart Zoo, but its acquisition was not recorded by the zoo, as trapping #thylacines was illegal at the time. This really shakes up thylacine history.

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@JackDAshby

2 years

I'm VERY EXCITED to share the news that I’ll be writing a new book with @PenguinUKBooks on the secrets of the world’s natural history #museums , exploring: 🪰what you see (& don't see) when visiting 🪓honest histories of how collections were made 🌍how they can help save the world

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3 years

85 years ago today, an entire branch was cut off the tree of life, when the last known living #thylacine died of exposure: it was locked out of the indoor part of its enclosure at a Tasmanian zoo. The event is commemorated as #ThreatenedSpeciesDay , lest we forget. #extinction

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2 years

Big #rewilding news: #cheetahs became extinct in India 70 years ago, but today they are being reintroduced, with eight animals on their way from Namibia. India is home to tigers, lions, leopards & snow leopards, and now cheetahs once more. #CheetahIsBack

India reintroduces cheetahs to wild after big cats airlifted from Namibia

PM Narendra Modi to welcome the eight animals amid fears that they may struggle with Kuno national park habitat or clash with leopards

www.theguardian.com

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@JackDAshby

6 years

Some classic examples of a female animal displayed in a submissive pose relative to the male (which has no link to their natural history). 🤔 #MuseumBias

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@JackDAshby

2 years

This is heinous. The BBC is censoring not only itself, but David Attenborough, by pulling an episode of its new flagship series on British wildlife as it focuses on UK wildlife declines... in case it upsets right-wing politicans and media. #WildIsles

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@JackDAshby

5 years

A splotchy, battle-scarred old Tasmanian devil lollops casually off into the bush. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #TasmanianDevils @davidghamilton1 #WildOz

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@JackDAshby

6 years

My big news is that I'll be the new Museum Manager at Cambridge University's amazing @ZoologyMuseum 🤓! Not sure what I'm more excited about: the team or the collection.

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@JackDAshby

4 years

The most marvellous micro-mammals are marsupial meat-eaters. Meet the Wongai ningaui, a six centimetre-long predator from central Australia. #fieldwork #SimpsonDesert #marsupials #MammalWatching #WildOz #marsupial

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@JackDAshby

2 years

Let's talk about thylacines. The last known #thylacine died on this day in 1936 - it was accidentally locked out of the indoor part of its enclosure at a #Hobart zoo, and died of exposure. A 🧵based on stories of how we've represented thylacines, from my #PlatypusMatters book...

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11 months

A baby #wombat (a wombatlet) in the snow. You're welcome. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

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@JackDAshby

6 years

The anatomical wax models at #LaSpecola are immense works of art. It's amazing how much work the 18th century modellers put into them (and how many bodies they must have studied).

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@JackDAshby

2 years

Platypuses are hyper-flexible - they can scratch almost every part of their bodies with their feet. [This one put on an incredible show for 2.5 hours today - thank you @HobartRivulet #platypus ! There couldn't have been a better start to my #Tasmania trip] #MammalWatching #WildOz

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@JackDAshby

3 years

This has been one of the most amazing, and heartbreaking, times I've spent in a museum: researching the extinct #thylacine skins at @ZoologyMuseum . They're among the best preserved, in terms of retaining their true colours with little fading, of any of the world's #thylacines .

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@JackDAshby

5 years

What a great way of displaying the impact of domestic #cats on nature, each killing an average of 34 birds and mammals each year. ( #FeralCats have a far greater kill-count). #MuseumNerdsAbroad

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2 years

Sigh. Cloning a dodo is absurd. Here's a couple of tweets about why: 1. The idea of editing a pigeon's genome until it "becomes a #dodo " is as ridiculous as it sounds. The odds of success are so vanishingly tiny that it's incredible anyone is funding it.

Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’

Company is raising further $150m to pursue research on dodo which became extinct in 17th century

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

After a little scratch, this #platypus heads up the bank to leave a scent mark on a tree root, all the while chewing food she's kept in her cheek pouches. #MammalWatching #Tasmania #WildOz #platypuses

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7 years

Ball of baby hyena floof. #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica #hyenas

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@JackDAshby

5 years

I understand the feeding and touching rules, but I'm not sure why @TasmaniaParks have outlawed giving your heart to a #wombat . 😍❤ #GUILTY 😍❤ #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #Wombats

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@JackDAshby

4 years

My first time back in @ZoologyMuseum - we closed five months ago to the day. Can confirm: the specimens are still dead.

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5 years

I think he spotted me. 🕵👀 #TasmanianDevils #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching @davidghamilton1 #WildOz

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1 year

A #platypus takes a little over-land detour before continuing her foraging upstream. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses

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1 year

Possibly the world's calmest quoll release. #fieldwork #Tasmania #quolls #MammalWatching #WildOz #quoll

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@JackDAshby

5 years

It can get cold in #Tasmania , and the echidnas there are so furry that their spines only just poke out beyond their thick coats. #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #echidnas #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #echidna

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@JackDAshby

5 years

This is incredible - cassowaries catch fish by wading into water, enticing the fish into their fluffed-up feathers, then closing them shut. Back on land they shake the fish onto the ground and eat them. Great article by @john_pickrell for @ausgeo :

Jungle royalty: the enigmatic cassowary - Australian Geographic

Australia’s cassowaries aren’t as rare as we thought, but there’s still much to discover about these enigmatic rainforest birds.

www.australiangeographic.com.au

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5 years

Is anyone else uncomfortable with cutting down over 100 mature oaks, which are hundreds of years old, to rebuild #NotreDame ? There must be alternatives for replacing the timber, while replacing the ecosystem provided by centuries-old trees takes centuries.

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5 years

Taxidermy is no friend to the sloth. #MuseumNerdsAbroad #sloths #taxidermy

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5 years

A suckling Tasmanian devil boops his brother on the nose. #FieldworkFriday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #fieldwork #TasmanianDevils #marsupials

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7 years

Wakey wakey, tiny pygmy possum. #fieldwork #kangarooisland #mammalwatching #wildoz #marsupials

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7 years

Someone at @NHM_London is *really* good at folding snakes. #Venom

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3 years

Here's a young seal flipper. Under the skin, they look a lot like human hands, particularly if you have fabulous nails. 💅🦭 #seals

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6 years

Giant deer have *huge* neural spines on their vertebrae to allow for massive neck muscles that can support the weight of their 4m-wide antlers. #FossilFriday

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4 years

Today is the day to celebrate these glorious creatures which crush their enemies with their buttocks, dig burrows tens of metres long, constantly regrow their teeth and have babies called wombatlets. Happy #WorldWombatDay . #wombat #NationalWombatDay #WombatDay #fieldwork

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@JackDAshby

5 years

Russia may be using whales as weapon-carrying spies... 🐳Licence to Krill🕵 🐳For Your Ice Only🕵 🐳Live and Let Dive🕵 🐳Never Sei Never Again🕵 🐳GoldFINger🕵 🐳From Russia with Cod🕵 🐳A View to a Killer Whale🕵

Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts

Fisherman in Norway raised alarm after white beluga whale sporting unusual strapping began harassing their boats

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

The typical facial expression of every live #hyena I've ever met, vs. the typical facial expression of most taxidermy #hyenas . #MammalWatching #taxidermy #MuseumBias

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@JackDAshby

7 years

A wolf has trekked into Belgium - the first there in 100 years - meaning that #wolves have returned to every country in continental Europe. #rewilding

Pioneering wolf becomes first sighted in Belgium for a century

Researchers have tracked Naya from eastern Germany into the Netherlands and now Flanders

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

@IanLuke72 @GrrlScientist I see the problem. It's disappointing for a biology book: it should say "what distinguishes our higher mental functions from those of OTHER animals". Humans *are* animals. Bad.

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5 years

This 309 million year-old plant fossil is pretty cool in its own right, but *can you see the tiny squished spider* on one of the fronds?! 🤓🕷 #FossilFriday

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5 years

Baby #wombats (wombatlets) stick with their mums until they are about a year old. They tend to stay *very* close, rarely leaving her side. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

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8 years

Elephant shrews are not real shrews. They are related to elephants and aardvarks. FAKE SHREWS. Sad.

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4 years

Baby wombats (wombatlets) resemble a furry bean with a face drawn on one end. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombat #WildOz #wombats

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5 years

What an absolute privilege to unwrap the #thylacine in store at @NMIreland 's @DublinDeadZoo . A genuinely beautiful specimen from 1883, five years before #Tasmania 's government put a bounty on their heads. #thylacines #taxidermy

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5 years

A terror bird: still terrifying despite being dead for 15 million years. 😵🐤 Look at it! It's eye is nearly as big as my head! 😲 They were once South America's largest predators. #FossilFriday

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1 year

87 years ago today, the last known #thylacine died at #Hobart 's zoo, marking the #extinction of the largest marsupial carnivore of modern times. #Museums are their only remaining habitat: the tragic reality of extinction is crystallised into their specimens. #ThreatenedSpeciesDay

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5 years

A good view of an #echidna 's backwards-pointing feet.👇👇 #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #echidnas #MammalWatching #WildOz

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4 years

Remember kids, in museums it's Halloween every day.

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1 year

In my opinion the Hall of African Mammals at @AMNH is the absolute pinnacle of #taxidermy displays. Taxidermy is intended to allow us to forget the animals are dead, & these dioramas use every trick in the book to make you think you're watching real live scenes. Let's explore...

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5 years

This #echidna is ticking all the boxes: he has a scratch, looks into the camera, then waddles off and sticks his nose into the earth in search of ants. 😍 #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #echidnas #WildOz

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6 years

We all look better from certain angles. Happy #TaxidermyWeek everyone. #tarsier #taxidermy

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10 months

Brilliant news! Platypuses may be reintroduced to the River Torrens around #Adelaide - where pollution drove them to extinction around 130 years ago, but the river is healthy again.

Monotreme dreams: the plan to reintroduce platypuses into Adelaide’s once ‘noxious’ river

Platypuses have not been seen in the Torrens since the 1880s, but now the river may be healthy enough to support the species again

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

The joy of #taxidermy pufferfish is that they really do look like this in life. 🐡🐡🐡🐡

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4 years

This is a thorny devil. It is very, very thorny. #fieldwork #SimpsonDesert #lizards #reptiles #herping #WildOz

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1 year

Very pleased to find this at an antiques stall - a 240-year-old print of a #GreatAuk , from more than 70 years before their #extinction . It was labelled "King Penguin" (their French name is Grand Pingouin - #penguins were named after them). It's from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle.

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2 years

Like all sensible people, the first thing I do when entering a natural history museum is to check how fat their #platypus is. And for Marseille, the verdict is.... FATTYPUS. #taxidermy

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6 years

Dear taxidermists, please remember that if you don't use inaccurate googly eyes, your #kiwis won't look comedically startled. #taxidermy

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4 years

Oh wow. Most hooved mammals have eyes on the sides of their heads, allowing them to watch for predators from all angles. But without predators, they end up looking like something from the NeverEnding Story. #FossilFriday

Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈

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4 years

sure the miniature goats that lived on Majorca until ~3,000 years ago sound really cute, until you find out that because they had no predators their eyes moved from the side of their heads to forward-facing which is just horrific, frankly #FossilFriday (📸 Nachosan, unknown)

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Look how hard an #echidna rams its ant-eating snout into the ground to try and find the insects. 👃🐜🐜 #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #echidnas #MammalWatching #WildOz

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5 years

Little bright stars! 🌟 Eastern #quolls are covered in spots like stars in the night sky. ✨ #fieldwork #Tasmania #marsupials #quoll #MammalWatching #WildOz

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4 years

Thank you, America. You deserve a wombat.

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5 years

Not only is this great news, it's also a great photo showing how #platypuses bunch up their webbing in their fists and walk on their knuckles on land. #platypus

Bindi Irwin

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5 years

I have the best news! Connie the platypus has been released back to the wild after treatment at our #AustraliaZooWildlifeHospital . She’s now living her best life in a lovely river that is safe from drought. This is why we have dedicated our lives to being Wildlife Warriors. 💙

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Wombats are one of those rare animals who actually look like the cartoons that depict them. Gotta love an animal whose cheeks are wider than their ears. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

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3 years

$5 million has just been donated to @UniMelb to develop genetic and reproductive technologies to clone a #thylacine . Science is very far off this being possible, and there's a good chance it's impossible. In the meantime, messages that #extinction is forever are undermined. 1/3

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2 years

Few people doubt that the #thylacine did not become extinct when the last known animal died in 1936, but the true date of #extinction has been a mystery. There's been a major development in answering this question. In this long-awaited study, led by @BraveNewClimate ... 1/2

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1 year

Every part of a #wombat is round. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

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5 years

Struck gold whilst fossiling at #LymeRegis today - a 200 million year-old chunk of ammonite completely mineralised with iron pyrite! 🐙⛏ 🤓 #fossils #molluscs #Dorset

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1 year

Releasing a quoll is a bit like letting go of one of those long balloons that flies around the room in every direction. #fieldwork #Tasmania #quolls #MammalWatching #WildOz #quoll

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1 year

DOUBLE QUOLL! These two adult female #quolls (both with babies in their pouches) went into this trap together. We don't know why they were hanging out - maybe they're just mates. #fieldwork #MammalWatching #WildOz #quoll #marsupials

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5 years

A single #echidna turns over 200 cubic metres of soil a year while hunting for ants and termites. ⛏🐜🐜🐜 This means that #echidnas are really important for healthy Australian ecosystems. #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

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5 years

No actually I think I'll just wait here. #TasmanianDevils #fieldwork @davidghamilton1 #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

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@JackDAshby

5 years

Eastern #quolls are one species that come in two flavours: chocolate and caramel. They are one of #Tasmania 's brilliant #marsupial carnivores. #fieldwork #MammalWatching #WildOz #FieldworkFriday

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

5 years

Squeaky wombat. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat #wombats

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

3 years

OTD in 1909 the Tasmanian government made its last bounty payment for the killing of a #thylacine : a M. Bryant of Hamilton was paid £2 for two #thylacines . Thylacines are extinct because #Tasmania 's farmers lobbied for a bounty, insisting thylacines killed sheep. They were wrong.

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

5 years

Releasing an eastern quoll is the best magic trick. #fieldwork #quolls #marsupials #Tasmania @davidghamilton1 #quoll #MammalWatching #WildOz

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

5 years

Off you go, little Tasmanian devil. Be good. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #TasmanianDevils @davidghamilton1 #WildOz

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

7 years

Check out the weirdness of a chinchilla skull. Their auditory chambers are so big that they make monstrous bulges *on top* of their skulls.

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

1 year

Platypus pull-ups. #Tasmania #platypus #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses

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Jack Ashby

@JackDAshby

6 months

Wow. Attending the ceremony for the return of spears taken by James Cook from Gweagal people was a genuine privilege. The spears are heading back to Country - it's one of the most meaningful pieces of museum work I've ever seen. Well done and congratulations to everyone involved.

National Museum of Australia

@nma

6 months

La Perouse Aboriginal community has been reunited with four spears taken by James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany Bay). The spears are being permanently returned to Country after 254 years. We're honoured to assist the community with their long-term care.

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