Dasyurus viverrinus

Reasons vary with species and include hunting, burning, poisoning, habitat loss and alteration, disease (Eastern Quoll), roadkill, and competition with and predation by novel predators.

It is surrounded by a predator-barrier fence and contains a variety of mammals including the eastern barred bandicoot, southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus, long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus, rufous bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens, Tasmanian pademelon, eastern grey kangaroo, swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor, common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula and eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus.

* the word's largest and most intact group of marsupial carnivores, made up of the endangered Tasmanian devil, the vulnerable spotted-tailed quoll and the near-threatened eastern quoll;

The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), now extinct on the mainland, and Mitchells hopping mouse (Notomys mitchellii), presumed extinct in New South Wales, were investigated for their suitability as pets for the purposes of the study.

You can't go far without a close encounter with a wallaby, wombat, possum, bandicoot, bettong, pademelon, eastern quoll, duck-bill platypus, echidna and not forgetting the elusive Tasmanian Devil.

The kangaroos were friendly, the koalas gave us a smile and the spotted eastern quoll (a bit like a furry weasel) nibbled our fingers playfully.

Until the extinction of the thylacine this century, there were four species: the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), the spotted-tailed quoll (southern subspecies, D.

So a wombat opossum was a quoll--but whether the Spotted-tail Quoll Dasyurus maculatus or Eastern Quoll D.

Threatened species include the eastern barred bandicoot, the southern brown bandicoot, the eastern quoll and a dozen other bird and mammal species.