Speckled Marsupial marten (quoll)
Dasyurus viverrinus is the size of a small cat - body length 45 cm, tail - up to 30 cm, weight - up to 1.5 kg.
The Latin name of the quolla translates as: "A ferret-like animal with a fluffy tail." Quoll has nothing to do with real European martens, but the first settlers of Australia were almost entirely convicts, among whom for some reason there were no biologists...
For this reason, we now have an Australian magpie, which is not a magpie at all - and many similar other curiosities.
The lifestyle of the Quoll is solitary and nocturnal. They usually hunt on the ground, but they are good at climbing trees. The main food of the quoll is insect pests.
After the colonization of Australia, they began to hunt poultry, rabbits, rats and mice and were exterminated by farmers for ruining poultry houses - and now the quoll is found only in Tasmania.
The main food competitor of the quoll is the Tasmanian devil, as well as human-introduced foxes, feral cats and dogs
