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• MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Each name sounds more Australian than the last.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of these used to mean “dumb”, apart from “numbat”.

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was so sure some of these names were made up.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you think about it… all names were made up at one point or another.

    All words, even.

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• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only for a little extra oomph in your scrabble game.

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whats that middle one?

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• RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The numbat looks so noble 😍

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  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuzzy slinky

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• JayJLeas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Acedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wut dat noolbenger do doh?

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Sternhammer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I are a choccie Bilby this Easter so definitely still around.

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• SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as an aussie, it’s pretty safe to assume marsupial… basically everything here is a marsupial

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where’s Muad’Dib?

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• About12@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No Phascogale? 🤔😁

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• robdor@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell me more about ant tech anuses.

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• maculata@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about bandicoots?

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• sunoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Take a look at that snout!

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