The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials

Najade said:
Now you’ve got the real thing ;)
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There is now a Honey Possum photo in the appropriate place of the thread (here: The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials).
 
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Added Banded Hare-wallaby (the new pictures aren’t even close to being in the same ballpark as the ones I lost) and Western Barred Bandicoot pics, as well as different sub-species of Black-footed Rock-wallaby.
 
Does that northern Sugar Glider remind anyone else of that alien from the movie “Life”?
 
Added a pic of the Rothschild's Rock-wallaby I saw tonight. (Not sure why the pictures are so crappy. Still figuring out that new camera.:confused:)
 
Najade said:
Added a pic of the Rothschild's Rock-wallaby I saw tonight. (Not sure why the pictures are so crappy. Still figuring out that new camera.:confused:)
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Maybe try lightening it and re-uploading? It's a bit of a tricky photo to use in the thread otherwise.
 
Chlidonias said:
All I know is that it used to be labelled as being the "original" Feathertail Glider species, so they've obviously changed the name label since the split. Whether it was for a legitimate reason or not I can't say.
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From the museum,

"Unfortunately the specimens are too dried-out to really distinguish the species. Many of the mounts in the Discovery Centre had been on display for several decades, so this isn’t particularly surprising. I know that the label was changed from Acrobates pygmaeus to A. frontalis when the displays were partially refurbished in 2012. I spoke to our collection manager about why the label was changed, and apparently it was on the basis of geographic distribution (The specimens were from an area where A. frontalis is known to occur)."
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
From the museum,

"Unfortunately the specimens are too dried-out to really distinguish the species. Many of the mounts in the Discovery Centre had been on display for several decades, so this isn’t particularly surprising. I know that the label was changed from Acrobates pygmaeus to A. frontalis when the displays were partially refurbished in 2012. I spoke to our collection manager about why the label was changed, and apparently it was on the basis of geographic distribution (The specimens were from an area where A. frontalis is known to occur)."
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I thought the collection locality might have been the reason. In the original descriptions when the species was split, there are distribution maps which imply that they are largely separate, whereas it was later found that they occur together over wide areas.
 
@Chlidonias great to see you've added some of my recent trip photos! I believe we can add Ornate cuscus from Batu Secret Zoo. Unless you're not certain on the ID?
 
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