Each name sounds more Australian than the last.

Numbats? Dunnarts?

These names aren’t all Australian colloquialisms for “dumb”… are they??

Also… no love for the Cult of Quoka? I mean seriously, look at these guys? How is anything that cute?

Careful - some of these are Australian and will try to kill you.

I was shocked an Aussie to learn that my American boyfriend had never heard of bilbies…

Whats that middle one?

Wut dat noolbenger do doh?

No Pika? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Where’s Muad’Dib?

What’s funny with all these small, narrow-snouted bug-eating mammals is you can never guess what bigger mammal they’re more closely related too by a pic alone because this body plan is present in all therians, possibly because it was the best suited to survive the KT-extinction. So while you’d be tempted to call all of them rodents, you’ve got tree shrews closer to primates, tenrecs closer to elephants, and possums closer to kangaroos than they are to mice.

Edit: Also I checked those from the pic and they’re all marsupials, like possums.

Take a look at that snout!

Tell me more about ant tech anuses.