Older unburnt areas on their own appear unable to sustain a quokka population. |
The natural history of Australia was little recorded in early Dutch voyages of the seventeenth century, although there were observations of wallaby, quokka, and black swan. |
Next we encountered the three Australian q-marsupials, the quokka, the quoll and the quenda. |
The one image to survive with O'Neill's ringing endorsement is of a smiling quokka. |
A quokka, by the way, is a stocky Australian pademelon, or wallaby. |
The quokka is found primarily on Rottnest and in a few other Western Australia sites. |