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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

Visitors take photos of a quokka and her baby on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A visitor takes photo of a quokka on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A visitor poses for a selfie with a quokka on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen in the Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 4, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen on the Rottnest Island in Australia, Oct. 25, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Quokka At Featherdale Wildlife Park - Sydney

A quokka is seen in the Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 4, 2024. Often called "the happiest animal in the world", Quokkas are a small marsupial related to Kangaroos. They have grey-brown fur and small, rounded ears, feeding on fresh, young grasses, leaves and succulents, as well as plant roots. The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth. Quokkas there have become very accustomed to humans. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of threatened species due to habitat loss, climatic factors and predation by feral animals (cats and foxes). Photo by Ma Ping/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quokkas at Japan zoo

Photo taken June 29, 2020, shows a quokka, a marsupial from the same family as the kangaroo, shown to the press at Saitama Children's Zoo in Higashimatsuyama, near Tokyo. Presented from an Australian zoo, two male and two female quokkas will go on public display from July 1, making it the first time the animal can be seen at a zoo outside of Australia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quokkas at Japan zoo

Photo taken June 29, 2020, shows a quokka, a marsupial from the same family as the kangaroo, shown to the press at Saitama Children's Zoo in Higashimatsuyama, near Tokyo. Presented from an Australian zoo, two male and two female quokkas will go on public display from July 1, making it the first time the animal can be seen at a zoo outside of Australia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Marsupial fossil tooth unearthed in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Aug. 18, 2017, shows a fossil tooth of a marsupial relative unearthed in the Kumamoto Prefecture town of Mifune, southwestern Japan. It boosts hopes that the trove dating back some 90 million years can unravel the evolution of mammals in Asia, according to the Mifune Dinosaur Museum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo