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?
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Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of these used to mean “dumb”, apart from “numbat”.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
I was so sure some of these names were made up.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you think about it… all names were made up at one point or another.
All words, even.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Careful - some of these are Australian and will try to kill you.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Whats that middle one?
RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 7 months ago
The numbat looks so noble 😍
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Fuzzy slinky
JayJLeas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was shocked an Aussie to learn that my American boyfriend had never heard of bilbies…
Acedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wut dat noolbenger do doh?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Australia used to have the “Easter bilby” in addition to the more common overseas Easter bunny. Sadly I think stores stopped selling chocolate Easter bilbies; I don’t recall seeing any this year.
Sternhammer@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.
From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.
veroxii@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I are a choccie Bilby this Easter so definitely still around.
SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 7 months ago
No Pika? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 7 months ago
as an aussie, it’s pretty safe to assume marsupial… basically everything here is a marsupial
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where’s Muad’Dib?
About12@aussie.zone 7 months ago
No Phascogale? 🤔😁
robdor@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Tell me more about ant tech anuses.
maculata@aussie.zone 7 months ago
What about bandicoots?
sunoc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Take a look at that snout!
MamboGator@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Each name sounds more Australian than the last.