Which small mammal interests you more: The potoroo or the Malagasy giant jumping rat? (poll)

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

In dutch a very nice one is witgezichtpenseelaapje, witoorpenseelaapje and zwartoorpenseelaapje translating to white-headed, white-eared (common marmoset) and black-eared brush-monkey (black-tufted marmoset). With brush I am talking about something like a painting brush referring to their tails.

Wish it was that simple with some of the other marmosets and the tamarins in terms of names across languages but it isn't unfortunately (particularly the lion tamarins) so the scientific names do come in use sometimes.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Long-nosed Potoroo is fairly straight forward in a couple of places. I saw at least three while spotlighting on Bruny Island, TAS. One hopping about within a metre of myself.
For Gilbert's Potoroo I joined a Parks and Wildlife survey in Two People's Bay, WA. We caught several individuals over a four day period. Pretty impossible to see otherwise. Obviously got fairly close to that one.^^
With Long-footed Potoroo I got lucky on my second night drive in East Gippsland, VIC, where I saw a single individual on the road. It stuck around for maybe a minute before turning around and hopping off.

Thank you for your comment @Najade !

So you have had experience with all three of these species, that is pretty amazing !

I'm particularly impressed with the Gilbert's potoroo trapping, I have to ask how did it feel to see up close such an endangered species ?