Quokka
The quokka ( Setonix brachyurus ; in English: The Quokka ) is small a Marsupial of the family of the Macropodidés (most known being the Kangourou S). It is the only member of the kind Setonix.
Description
It is rather small; it weighs of 2,5 with 5 kg and measurement of 40 with 54 cm length, with a small tail - for a marsupial a length from 25 to 30 cm. Its fur, with the coarse hair, is of a brown gray on the back transfering with the chamois under the belly. It is a squat animal, with round ears, a short and broad head. Its back legs are less powerful than those of the other kangaroos and it moves either while jumping on its back legs, or while going on its four members. It can climb in the small trees and the shrubs.
Distribution and habitat
He lives only in the State of Western Australia, mainly on two islands without predatory introduced by Europeans: the island of Rottnest close to Perth and the island of Bald, close to Albany. One also finds it in the surroundings of Perth, on the continent.He lives mainly in group and in the grassy zones and the marshy thickets.
Food
He nourishes plants, the graminaceous ones, fatty plants, sheets but also of roots which he unearths or of small insects. There can remain several months without drinking.
Lifestyle
It is a night animal which leaves its shelter in the undergrowth where it spent the day to sleep with fallen the day. It gathers in bands of more than one hundred individuals to nourish itself. It will turn over in its shelter at daybreak.
Reproduction
The couplings take place in winter and gestation lasts 27 days. With its birth the small one weighs only 0.6 G. It crawls then to the marsupium where it clings to tétine. It starts to leave the marsupium at the 6 months age but it still takes refuge there until the 10 months age.
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