quoll
Noun
Meaning
A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
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Examples
In addition to these two sites, there was a third site located at the East Alligator ranger station, and this site was used as a control site, where the cane toads would not interact with the northern quoll population.
During the next phase of the experiment, researchers presented the quoll offspring with the leg of a cane frog, which was too small to cause them any harm.
One of Tasmania’s most prominent tiger-hunting groups, the Thylacine Research Unit, or T.R.U., looked at the images and pronounced the animal a quoll, a marsupial carnivore that looks vaguely like a weasel.
Monitoring of the quoll population began at the Mary River ranger station using radio tracking in 2002, months before the first cane toads arrived at the site.
The devil and quoll are especially vulnerable as they often try to retrieve roadkill for food and travel along the road.
In terms of its body mass, the devil eats only a quarter of the eastern quoll 's intake, allowing it to survive longer during food shortages.