Dr David Hamilton

@drdevildave.bsky.social

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Conservation Equollogist | Lutruwita, Tasmania | Tasmanian devil advocate & accidental quoll scientist, posting mainly science & quoll puns

A long-nosed potoroo, tiny T-Rex arms displayed proudly
An eastern quoll cautiously walks up to the person holding the camera, sniffing all the way
A Tasmanian devil standing pensively outside a tube containing food. The tube is CLEARLY too small for the devil to fit into…
A marsupial pouch full of tiny, pink eastern quolls. Their distinctive spotted pelage is starting to become apparent
A nesting box full of quolls, with both colour morphs (dark & fawn) represented.
An adult male light-morph eastern quoll about to be released
An eastern quoll in the hand, after having a small genetic sample taken
A dark morph eastern quoll darting off
An eastern quoll peeking out from a nest of dry grass
A person looking to the sky through binoculars, diligently searching for eagles
A Tasmanian devil standing in front of a camera. Suddenly, a poo appears behind it!
A view of a forested valley from a bird hide in Samoa - most wreaths the hilltops
An absolute unit of an antechinus - he knows he’s the king. Pic - @catmyoung
A ptunarra brown butterfly sitting on a paper daisy in the midst of a grassland
An eastern quoll dashing past the camera in slow-motion
A group of quolls denning together in a nest box at a wildlife sanctuary
An eastern quoll bounding off
The tail of an eastern quoll - the rest of her body is black with spots, but her tail has turned completely grey
A hand pictured next to a Tasmanian devil poo to indicate size - it’s big!!
Japanese macaques sitting in a thermal pool to keep warm in snowy conditions
Mount Asama in Honshu, it’s summit covered in snow & wreathed in cloud
A tiger snake curled up in a tight coil
A curled up she-oak skink - it has a long body, with tiny legs
A warning sign on a road, picturing a Tasmanian devil. Someone has spray-painted a pair of wings onto the devil
A young male elephant seal in shallow water, attacking a piece of driftwood
A swift parrot, sitting amongst the branches of a flowering black gum
A brushtail possum, waving at then messing with a camera
A brushtail possum VERY close to a remote camera - one hand is up as though the possum were waving
A pair quoll toys hanging from the mirror in a car
An owl, looking sceptical
An eastern quoll on a wooden deck, wearing a festive scarf
A flying duck orchid with 3 flowers on the same stem. Each flower resembles a duck in flight!
A brushtail possum holding a stick, Gandalf-style
A Flying Duck Orchid in flower
Camera trap image of a bettong with their prehensile tail curled around a bunch of dry grass
A platypus with bill just raised out of the water
The feet of an eastern quoll
Footprints of an eastern quoll in the sand, next to an Australian 20 cent coin for scale
A small black & yellow banded snake, winding across red sand
An emu crossing the road next to a sign warning of emus crossing!