WESTERN PYGMY POSSUM Cercartetus concinnus

 DID YOU KNOW?

• Pygmy possums are nocturnal, which means they are only active at night. During the day they sleep in hollows, dense vegetation or even birds nests!
  
  
• A pygmy possums tail is covered in fine scales, not fur!
  
  
• Pygmy possums love to eat pollen, nectar, and occasionally insects.
  
  
• Pygmy possums are marsupials, which means mothers raise their young in a pouch.
  
  
• Pygmy possums have the ability to enter torpor (inactivity) during severe or cold weather, enabling them to conserve energy and food reserves.

BAUDIN’S BLACK COCKATOO Calyptorhynchus baudinii

DID YOU KNOW?

• Baudin’s cockatoos can live for a very long time, surviving for up to 50 years in the wild.
  
  
• Baudin’s cockatoos like to eat the seeds and flowers of Marri, Banksia, Hakea and Jarrah trees
  
  
• Baudin’s cockatoos mate for life. 
  
  
• Meelup Regional Park provides significant habitat resources for this species with food and hollow bearing trees suitable for breeding

(Source DBCA 2018, nth 2014)
Image by: Mark Oliver

QUENDA Isoodon obesulus fusciventer

 DID YOU KNOW?

• The Quenda is mostly nocturnal spending its nights sniffing the ground foraging for food and sleeping during the day in nests, under logs and thick vegetation.
  
  
• The Quenda eats insects spiders worms, roots, plants and fungi.
  
  
• Predators in Meelup Regional Park include owls, snakes, foxes and feral cats.
  
  
• Nest consists of a heap of ground litter over a shallow depression providing an internal chamber with loose regions at both ends for entry and exit. It is usually concealed next to or under logs, shrubs or piles of debris. Quenda can also use old rabbit burrows.