Comments on: Quokka

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:53:03 +0000

oh my god, they are so cute!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:03:17 +0000

Yet more quokka sightings: I’m reading Where is Here? 350 years of exploring Australia edited by (ta-dah!) Tim Flannery. Willem de Vlamingh, the first white fella to land on Rotto in 1696 observed “there are few if any birds to be seen and no animals except a kind of rat as large as a common cat, whose dung is to be found all over the island”. But of course they weren’t called quokkas then, were they?

Weird. Quokkas, like busses. None for ages then suddenly they’re everywhere.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:25:58 +0000

I want one for a pet, too.

By: MooseGuy

MooseGuy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:51:11 +0000

I’ve been to rottnest. i was so close to sneaking one into my backpack. they’re SO ADOWABLE!

By: sylvia_rachel

sylvia_rachel — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:05:22 +0000

oh! the cute!

By: robin cave

robin cave — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:49:06 +0000

Justine, I think you’ll find there is a law in New York State banning quokkas on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays… plus you would need a good supply of whitchety grubs to feed them.

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:24:03 +0000

ooh, ooh, i want to help ensure the survival of quokkas, too! i’d like a girl one, please.

~mary

By: Rosalie (no, seriously)

Rosalie (no, seriously) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:02:23 +0000

OMG!!!! so adorable!!! I want to kidnapp it and kiss it and dress it up in a bonnet!!!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:56:04 +0000

awwww!

It looks like a little mini kangaroo!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:35:09 +0000

As a lapsed West Australian it’s my duty to report that quokkas are native only to Rottnest Island near Perth, named by Dutch sailors who landed in the 18th century. The sailors thought the quokkas reminded them of an animal that may have been found in the hull of the ship…Guess which. Rottnest is the essential place to go for post-high school celebrations. Like now. Beautiful beaches.

By: Kadie-Wa

Kadie-Wa — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:45:35 +0000

OMG!! sooo cute! Holy cow, those are adorible!! Aw…cute!

Are they only in Australia?

By: margo

margo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:45:12 +0000

Weird that you mention this now. This was in the paper on Monday: http://www.smh.com.au/news/SPORT/Force-players-caught-with-quokkas/2007/11/26/1196036799171.html

And quokkas hardly ever make the news.

By: Kenina-chan

Kenina-chan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:44:52 +0000

Awwwww! It is so cute!

By: Dess

Dess — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:44:07 +0000

*gasp* i want one!

By: David Moles

David Moles — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:55:45 +0000

And it’s illegal to pet them? Unfair!

By: chrisbarnes

chrisbarnes — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:36:29 +0000

i agree. native animals should be pets (under properly managed conditions etc blah blah) and then we’d still have plenty of bandicoots and bilbies and such. I for one would like a pademelon, though a quokka would also be cute.

By: Patrick, The Space Lord

Patrick, The Space Lord — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:23:19 +0000

ooh that there looks like some good eatin’

By: calliope

calliope — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:16:13 +0000

i want one! they’re even cuter than a dog

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:25:15 +0000

very cute!! my cats wouldn’t eat it, they’d very likely be terrified of it. (i have scaredy cats. )

By: Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:08:29 +0000

CUTE! I’d get one only my cats would probably eat it.

By: janet

janet — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:23:02 +0000

awwww.

alice has a book called “diary of a wombat.” in it, the wombat concludes “have decided that humans are easily trained and make quite good pets.” perhaps this intelligence should be passed on to the quokka community.

good scrabble word, also.