Steve from Top End Explorer Tours posted:

Try this link.

Southern Brown Bandicoot.

Cheers Steve.

Motherhen posted:

Hi Steve - It does, but pictures of bandicoots i have found all have pinkish noses and claws, whereas this fellow has black. Bandicoots came to mind first, as when we were camped at Cape Tribulation a bandicoot came foraging around the camp sites in the evening.

My daughter described it as 'about the size of a possum'. It was at a Emu Point CP Albany. She has further photos of it's small tail from when it visited again, but she was having trouble with internet connection from her sister's tent so i haven't any more photos.

Motherhen

The Explorer posted:

Well there you go it was a Southern Brown Bandicoot for sure based on your location. 100% sure, no doubt.

Cheers
Greg

Motherhen posted:

Yes (overlapping replies), that is the site i was just on, but pink claws, whereas this one has very black claws. Almost all the small marsupials appear to have pink claws.

Mh

Steve from Top End Explorer Tours posted:

Just found this link: http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/biodiversity/bandicoot.html
I'd say the images show the same species.

Motherhen posted:

Thanks guys - I knew i'd get the answer here

Mh

Motherhen posted:

Hi Greg - As per my comments to Steve above, the pictures i have found of Southern Bandicoots have pink claws.

Mh

The Explorer posted:

Hello cant really see the claws that well and Im no expert of bandicoot claws but I can assure you it is a Southern Brown Bandicoot - I have caught many in my time doing fauna surveys in south west. Keep in mind these things dig for food so could be just darker because of dirt.

Cheers
Greg

Motherhen posted:

Ooops - a bit quick on the trigger finger

What is it?

It is tiny - about an inch tall at the most, found on the Eyre Peninsular

Mh

Steve from Top End Explorer Tours posted:

Anja thinks it's the wilted female flower of a yam of sorts, I think it's a cigarette butt. LOVL

Cheers Steve.

Motherhen posted:

Forget 'Pick this Place'. We could have a 'What is it' quiz!

Good try Anja; Steve is sort of closer - but truth is I still don't know.

Mh

Member - Dennis P (Int) posted:

Motherhen,
I think it is a form of toadstool or fungus similar to a 'puff-ball'.
Seen them in the Mallee.
Dennis

Motherhen posted:

Hi Dennis - it is clay - like mud-daub.

Motherhen

Member - Dennis P (Scotland) posted:

Hi Motherhen,
Must belong to some insect then, might be termite as some-one has suggested or could be spider or ant related.
Is there a big money prize for getting it right??

Motherhen posted:

Pity there is no prize. When i saw it i thought it looked like a wasp nest (mud dauber type), and called it a 'clay pipe wasp nest', but i have been unable to prove what it is. We have a lot of termites, but i have never seen anything like that in association with a colony.

Motherhen