Recently landed: Bingo!
Bingo is a juvenile, mainland Dusky antechinus. He might look, at first glance, like a native rodent, but he is not. He is, like all antechinus, actually a small, glorious, carnivorous marsupial that belongs to the dasyuridae family, which includes the dunnart, the quoll and the Tasmanian devil.
Continuing reading on Marginalia.
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7th of December, 2023
Every inch of him alert, bristling with energy and inquisitiveness, on the 17th of November, after a feed of mealworms and crickets, we returned Bingo to the very site he was found. We released him at dusk, and can now happily report, Chum Creek Bingo is home!
