posted Sunday, 30 March 2008, 10:30 (+0800), by Martin
One of the numbats at the Perth Zoo.
The Numbat is a small marsupial, found in Western Australia, with a diet consisting primarily of termites.
It is a threatened species (currently classified as "vulnerable"), and the Perth Zoo has been breeding Numbats successfully for release into the wild since 1986, as part of it's Native Species Breeding Program.
By early 2007, the Perth Zoo had provided 110 Numbats to the Department of Environment and Conservation for release into protected habitats.
The Department of Environment and Conservation, with its Western Shield program, is working to prevent the extinction of a number of native animal species by reducing the number of introduced predators, such as the fox and the cat, and to-date, this program has been quite successful.
Numbat
Perth Zoo, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 70-200mm f/4L @126mm, 1/320 sec, f/4, ISO100
Canon EOS 350D, 70-200mm f/4L @126mm, 1/320 sec, f/4, ISO100
The Numbat is a small marsupial, found in Western Australia, with a diet consisting primarily of termites.
It is a threatened species (currently classified as "vulnerable"), and the Perth Zoo has been breeding Numbats successfully for release into the wild since 1986, as part of it's Native Species Breeding Program.
By early 2007, the Perth Zoo had provided 110 Numbats to the Department of Environment and Conservation for release into protected habitats.
The Department of Environment and Conservation, with its Western Shield program, is working to prevent the extinction of a number of native animal species by reducing the number of introduced predators, such as the fox and the cat, and to-date, this program has been quite successful.
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Your website is fantastic, I made sure on my honeymoon we visited WA just to visit a live Numbat. This is my most favourite animal.
Well done. Excellent. Can't rave highly enough
Keep up the good work