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Definition of quoll in English: quollnoun kwɒlkwäl A catlike carnivorous marsupial with short legs and a white-spotted coat, native to the forests of Australia and New Guinea. Genus Dasyurus, family Dasyuridae: several species Also called dasyure, native cat, tiger cat Example sentencesExamples - We'd probably lose five to seven species, including the quolls, even the Tasmanian Devil.
- The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil.
- If you don't know what Tasmanian devils, numbats and quolls are, this is your chance to find you.
- Adding insult to ecosystem injury, the poisonous toad instantly kills any predator that attempts to eat it, particularly the quoll, Australia's marsupial cat, and giant native lizards.
- It's well known quolls and goannas will suffer when cane toads arrive in droves across the Top End, but, the impact on snakes is not as well documented.
- There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
- Where once the quolls population was secure, between feral cats and wild dogs and now the toads, they're disappearing at an alarming rate.
- For example, the Desert Park has some western quolls which were prolific in the Centre until about a hundred years ago.
- Many small carnivorous marsupials live there, and some of them - six species of quolls and one phascogale - grow to about the size of civets and mongooses [see photographs on opposite page].
- Alternatively, you might linger at the lodge, where the after-dinner floorshow is unique: on the porch a procession of quolls, possums and Tasmanian Devils arrive, politely waiting for you to hand-feed them.
- Oh well, we get the wallabies, devils and quolls, wombats, and then you get the wedge-tailed eagles and goshawks, and lots of owls and bats.
- East Point has nesting turtles, quolls, echidnas, goannas and other animals, and rich marine life.
- He says species threatened in the forest include the extremely rare Wielangta stag beetle, the swift parrot, Tasmania's wedge-tail eagle and the tiger quoll.
- There are even plans to bring back quolls, catlike native predators.
- Meanwhile, a PhD student is setting traps to collect hair samples from the park's population of spotted-tailed quolls.
Origin Late 18th century: from Guugu Yimidhirr (an Aboriginal language) dhigul. Definition of quoll in US English: quollnounkwäl A catlike carnivorous marsupial with short legs and a white-spotted coat, native to the forests of Australia and New Guinea. Genus Dasyurus, family Dasyuridae: several species Also called dasyure Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, a PhD student is setting traps to collect hair samples from the park's population of spotted-tailed quolls.
- There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
- Many small carnivorous marsupials live there, and some of them - six species of quolls and one phascogale - grow to about the size of civets and mongooses [see photographs on opposite page].
- It's well known quolls and goannas will suffer when cane toads arrive in droves across the Top End, but, the impact on snakes is not as well documented.
- He says species threatened in the forest include the extremely rare Wielangta stag beetle, the swift parrot, Tasmania's wedge-tail eagle and the tiger quoll.
- The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil.
- Oh well, we get the wallabies, devils and quolls, wombats, and then you get the wedge-tailed eagles and goshawks, and lots of owls and bats.
- Alternatively, you might linger at the lodge, where the after-dinner floorshow is unique: on the porch a procession of quolls, possums and Tasmanian Devils arrive, politely waiting for you to hand-feed them.
- Where once the quolls population was secure, between feral cats and wild dogs and now the toads, they're disappearing at an alarming rate.
- Adding insult to ecosystem injury, the poisonous toad instantly kills any predator that attempts to eat it, particularly the quoll, Australia's marsupial cat, and giant native lizards.
- East Point has nesting turtles, quolls, echidnas, goannas and other animals, and rich marine life.
- We'd probably lose five to seven species, including the quolls, even the Tasmanian Devil.
- There are even plans to bring back quolls, catlike native predators.
- If you don't know what Tasmanian devils, numbats and quolls are, this is your chance to find you.
- For example, the Desert Park has some western quolls which were prolific in the Centre until about a hundred years ago.
Origin Late 18th century: from Guugu Yimidhirr (an Aboriginal language) dhigul. |