The discovery of Australia’s largest mainland carnivorous marsupial on a local property is seen as a good sign for the future of the threatened species.
When local resident, Meg Walton was woken in the early hours with a commotion in her duck pen, she thought at first that a large possum was responsible for the racket.
“I had never seen anything like it before,” Meg said. “It took one of the ducklings and climbed up a tree in the back garden. I had to look up a spotted brown animal on the internet to find out that it was a spotted-tail quoll!”
However, Meg says the next night the quoll returned killing a total of two ducklings and three turkeys…