dunnart

[prettygoodword]

Okay, back in the saddle again -- and to make it interesting, another theme week: animals I learned about from Lesser Spotted Animals by Martin Brown, starting with


dunnart (DUN-art) - n., a mouselike insectivorous marsupial (20-odd species of genus Sminthopsis) of Australia and New Guinea.


Name is from the native Nyungar language, danart. This one is a slender-tailed dunnart, not that you can see that from the pose:


Thanks, WikiMedia!

---L.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

So cuuuuute.

[prettygoodword]

They are! Check out the fat-tailed version.