leece on Nostr: Drawtober 21st - The prompt was Black Cat, but I'm trying to lean into Kambarang and ...

Drawtober 21st - The prompt was Black Cat, but I'm trying to lean into Kambarang and Nyoongar Boodja here and the domestic feral cat has contributed to so many extinctions here it's not really appropriate.

So here is W.A's largest endemic terrestrial carnivore, which in Nyoongar Boodja is called the Djooditj and even most folks around here into nature might have heard the term Chuditch. Folks over East have their own Quolls, but this one varies significantly and is most closely related to one recently discovered in Papua New Guinea.

Anyway, I have seen these little hunters many times in the Western Shield Camera project on Zooniverse, for which I am a moderator. When they're walking along the ground they carry their tails like this, and it's one of the fantastic identifiers, nothing else does that on the cameras, so it's nice to have an easy tell.

And exploration of names -Djooditj (Nyoongar) Anglicised to Chuditch. Western Quoll, another commonly used name. The Arrente might call them Ateyelpe & Chilpa The Western Desert mob -Kuninka and the Adnyamathanha - Idnya

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