SPRING RETURNS & ARRIVALS

Recently landed: Spring returns & arrivals

Coco Spinifex came into care at Tiny but Wild late June, with suspected neurological trauma. Her movements were impaired and she struggled to eat, such was her coordination. We tore up leaves for her and placed them in a bowl, like a salad befitting a possum, and slowly but surely she showed signs of improvement. Her actions became steadier and more confident, and, as such, she began to use her full range of movement, in glorious flexibility. We popped the night camera up, upon occasion, to check how she carried herself, and delighted in seeing her perform beautiful, controlled possum dangles with the aid of her prehensile tail. We marvelled in seeing her grow to paw and munch at fresh browse in her enclosure.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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18th of September, 2026

Following the rule of one out, four in, please meet our next quartet of joeys.

Owing to their adventurous natures, the orphaned ringtail joeys have been named with this in mind. And so we have Nellie, named after Nellie Bly (1864–1922), who was known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character Phileas Fogg; Augusta, named after Augusta Van Buren (1884–1959), who rode across the continental United States in 60 days with her sister Adeline, the second and third women to do so; Amelia, named after Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), the first woman to fly solo across Atlantic; and rounding out the next group and bunking off school, Ferris, after Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986).