Tasmanian Quoll Joeys Engage in Really Cute Play-Fighting

August 11, 2023 3:04 AM

Tasmanian Quoll Joeys Engage in Really Cute Play-Fighting (Youtube video). While mum’s away hunting, her six little joeys engage in endless play-fighting, wrestling matches and general mischief. It’s a valuable training ground for when they grow up and must deal with other quolls.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (17 comments total)

🅦🅞🅦 🅥🅔🅡🅨 🅢🅟🅞🅣 🅜🅤🅒🅗 🅢🅟🅔🅒🅚🅛🅔 🅢🅞 🅑🅛🅞🅣🅒🅗
posted by lalochezia at 3:40 AM on August 11, 2023 [13 favorites]

Little tiny things being GGGGR I’M FIERCE! is my morning sweet spot. Thanks for posting!
posted by Silvery Fish at 3:58 AM on August 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

QUOLL MISCHIEF is the name of my new metal band
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 4:30 AM on August 11, 2023 [9 favorites]

Those spots!
posted by leslies at 5:32 AM on August 11, 2023

OMG
THE TAIL BITING
THE SPOTS
THE SPOTS

Thank you, I needed this! Best of the web!
posted by obfuscation at 6:12 AM on August 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

yes the spots
but also
the little pink noses!
posted by martin q blank at 6:34 AM on August 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

Oh, a wise guy huh?

Why, I oughta...
posted by Naberius at 7:11 AM on August 11, 2023

This is the Quolls Dance Party I was hoping for!
posted by Windopaene at 7:28 AM on August 11, 2023

squee!

For more quollity content, Dr David Hamilton on the birbsite has it. Plus Tasmanian devils and entirely unrepentant possums raiding devil traps
posted by scruss at 7:57 AM on August 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

this propaganda campaign by Big Australia is really winning me over!
posted by supermedusa at 8:40 AM on August 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

It always makes me happy when I see new posts by you, chariot pulled by cassowaries.
posted by virago at 8:42 AM on August 11, 2023 [9 favorites]

Two Quoll Enter! Two Quoll Leave!

Who is the cutest in Bartertown?!?!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:22 AM on August 11, 2023

OMG. The S P O T S!!!!

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

After a horrible day yesterday, I so needed it.

And did they all stop and look over at the entrance at the same time when they heard mom?
posted by kathrynm at 10:37 AM on August 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

Who is the cutest in Bartertown?!?!

Auntie Entity, by law.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:15 PM on August 11, 2023

Thank you so much, this is just what I needed this morning.

spots!!!
posted by bettafish at 11:43 PM on August 11, 2023

Quollity content
posted by BinaryApe at 12:58 AM on August 12, 2023 [1 favorite]

I like the spotty not-rat cuteness on display here. Do they grow up to be spotty with dark, like mum, or is their coloring the one they'll have from now on? Quoll watchers want to know.
I was coming home from a job today and saw a fairly plump but obviously scarred rat in the subway. It had no tail, only a scarred stub.
The guy next to me on the platform leaned over and said, "what is that?!" and I said, "a fighter".
posted by winesong at 6:04 PM on August 12, 2023