Glad I'm not alone in not know about these cute little critters! And so glad people are working on their survival!

Your primary school teachers failed you.

New to me as well. quirky little things.

Yes, first I thought "what are those cute spotted rats, is it a new breed?"

Not the same species.

Find a s person who’s willing to read a script. Find mouse . Spray paint spots . Ask for donations. Next ex stink animal

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​@@Redoption19 15 watts on a good day!

That's a good comment, Zoe. Very well put.

She said animals are the biggest threat to these little guys, but I’m wondering if humans are part of the reason for them becoming nearly extinct...

@@greendiamonds8047 Yes people were the reason they are endangered by hunting them, now unfortunately gotta fix the mistake humans have made. Right now the animals are the ones who are dangerous for the youngsters, that is what she said. Those animals are just so cute! Have a great day.

@Jesse Porter It was never global cooling my dude.

@@greendiamonds8047 she literally said we hunted with the Goal of Extinction

Austin Major I was thinking the same thing, but I couldn't think of how it would be done.

These are marsupials and having multiple litters at once is common with them. We have sugar gliders that follow the same birthing system. They could have 3 litters all at the same time. Inside the womb, inside the pouch attached to the teets, and ones outside the pouch. Not all survive and if something knocks them off a teet they pretty much die as its very difficult and nearly impossible to reattach as they practically lock jaw on. And cats and even rabbits(rabbits require meat to increase the odds of first litter survival so we have found giving them uncooked bacon solves that issue sometimes) follow the same process and will eat the young if they wont survive. After all you cant have decaying meat in your den and the mother needs to regain as much energy as possible. Its nature

@@mikep8080 thanks, that's really interesting, l knew that many animals ate the placenta following a birth, and that animals such as cats would eat those young that died, but not that an animal like a rabbit would also eat their young

no kidding

@@helentee9863 The other thing with Marsupials is that the mother has the ability to put the one's in the womb "on hold" as it were if the resources are not about for them to survive. During a drought etc. Basically what that means is that as soon as it rains, mum pops out young'un's and then mates again. Marsupials are the quickest to produce young when times turn good.

Mice breed WAY too quickly, no way even a massive federal cat population could keep up. Mouse gestation is about 20 days and mother can give birth to litters 25 days apart, up to 14 pups per litter. Up to and exceeding 10 litters per year in good conditions. Baby mice become fertile at around 6 weeks old and while there is food (including other mice) they will keep breeding.

As an island species, I think it'd be too sheltered from unforeseen circumstances, island species tend to specialize at what they do, and don't tend to have a variety of options when it comes to defending themselves against species they've never encountered before.

Certainly, if the human-introduced cats and foxes didn’t pose such a threat.

Yes, they're marsupials.

They are the mid range size between the rat sized antichinus and the small dog sized Tasmanian devil.

Yes, most Australian mammals are.

You've beaten me by four years! I'm sixty-six and until I saw this video I was a quoll virgin too. I can't imagine why this came up in my recommendations but it's the most interesting thing I've seen this year so far.

I am lucky enough to have a nature reserve with eastern quolls right next door to where I live in Canberra. The enclosure has a large tall fence that is dug 10 feet into the ground to keep pests out - rabbits, cats and foxes as well as Roos as they are in destructive numbers around here. It is the only reserve that has been successful in completely eradicating invasive species from a wild enclosure in Australia. The quolls are doing really well along with Bettongs who are now extinct from the mainland but still have small populations in Tasmania. Each evening I go for walks in the reserve and occasionally run into these adorable little guys living as they should, without being bullied or eaten by nasty foreigners.

Oh my gosh, that's so cute, "once I showed it where the door was" 😍💕💕💕 I love them. They're so beautiful and important.

Not the same species.

Yes, they're the second largest extant marsupial carnivore, after the Tasmanian devil.

Just clone them. Or arm your populace like any intelligent western country and have an good ole fashion culling of foxes with a bounty system.

@@buttbiter3139 Unfortunately that's probably what's needed & while they're at it they need to hunt down all the truly feral housecats in the bush. I love cats but they're doing untold amounts of damage & I saw a video of one. It no longer even looked like a housecat anymore & could never be rehabilitated like a few city ferals can be. Just uh don't tell my cats on me.

@@buttbiter3139 Bounties don't always work, unfortunately. In some places in the past, bounties were put on rats and venomous snakes, but that quickly stopped once it was found out that people were breeding them to turn in for cash instead of trapping. And of course, when those people released their then-useless breeding stock into the wild, the initial problem became much worse. I think Australia's best chance against foxes might be TNR, actually

@@Nirrrina the problem with hunting down the cats is that more cats will come because there is then space for them. Unless you manage to kill thousands at a time you are just inviting new cats into the area.

Poor rabbits ..rabbits are just as adorable

Studies have also shown that humans do the most damage to our planet's flora and fauna than any other species.Don't blame cats for doing what comes naturally. Blame ignorant, irresponsible humans for not having their cats neutered and kept inside.

@@kalayne6713 Thank you well stated.

@@kalayne6713 You are right that the feral cat problem is the fault of humans. Humans now have a duty to try to fix the problem, and the sad truth is that killing the feral cats is sometimes the only way to save the animals they are hunting. There are way too many to adopt and TNR lets them keep destroying the habitat and attracts irresponsible people who want a place to dump their cats. I love cats and have two in my house. Indoors only because I also love wildlife.

Yeah, thanks to "cat lovers" that let their "pets" roam free, uncontrolled and unneutered, millions of these animals that they claim to love had to be brutally poisoned and killed. Good job. If you're against "caging" an animal, don't get any pets at all, its really simple.