The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials

2nd place! Not too shabby when I've only visited Australia twice in my life. Keep up the great work Najade! So impressed (and jealous haha) with all the species you've been able to see in the wild! My next trip down under I'll be sure to visit some national parks in the footsteps of Najade.
 
More marsupial goodness in the Aussie wildlife gallery.

(My camera mucked up the SD card again, so I can't access any of my own pictures taken between Uluru and the day after we left Mt Isa.)
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Are there any Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombats on public display in Australia or are they all in private breeding centers?
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The ZAA has a managed breeding program for the southern hairy-nosed species as an analogue for the northern species. As mentioned elsewhere, breeding any wombat species is not yet a mastered art so rather than sacrifice critically endangered animals it was wisely decided to master the art with an analogue species first in combination with high-level protection of the wild population. Its a slow process but considerable progress is being made in both fronts.

Australian zoos have also stepped up research and attempts to master breeding short-beaked echidnas as an analogue for any of the critically endangered long-beaked species. Being a very different genera this is a much bigger leap, but I do hope we see some more long-beaked echidnas brought into captivity soon. They need help very badly.
 
Najade said:
Added a pic of Sharman's Rock-wallaby to the Aus Wildlife gallery.
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That's excellent. There are now only two rock wallaby species left undepicted in the thread (!): the Monjon Petrogale burbidgei and the Cape York Rock Wallaby Petrogale coenensis.
 
Added a pic of what I'm reasonably sure to be Cape York Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon peninsulae) to the wildlife gallery.
 
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