Bilbies in Sturt National Park
September 26, 2020 5:27 PM Subscribe
Bilbies have been released into NSW’s Sturt National Park, 100 years after being declared extinct. Video.
Bilbies and Bandicoots, sitting in the bush,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
Good for those fucking Bilbies, Mate!
(Been watching lot of Ozzy Man vids lately)
(No dickheads in this lot of cute as fuck wankers)
posted by Windopaene at 7:35 PM on September 26, 2020
K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
Good for those fucking Bilbies, Mate!
(Been watching lot of Ozzy Man vids lately)
(No dickheads in this lot of cute as fuck wankers)
posted by Windopaene at 7:35 PM on September 26, 2020
Go on little dudes.
I started reading up on them and they have a gestation period of 12-14 days, wild.
posted by Sulk at 7:39 PM on September 26, 2020 [2 favorites]
I started reading up on them and they have a gestation period of 12-14 days, wild.
posted by Sulk at 7:39 PM on September 26, 2020 [2 favorites]
Oh Bilbies... Not Bibles.
posted by Hicksu at 8:07 PM on September 26, 2020 [20 favorites]
posted by Hicksu at 8:07 PM on September 26, 2020 [20 favorites]
Question 1: So are bilbies just armadillos who have taken their armor off?
Question 2: was this National Park named thusly?
Surveying Geologist: wow, this is a locally unique soil type. Do you have a name for it?
Local Guide: -shrugs- S'dirt.
posted by bartleby at 9:13 PM on September 26, 2020 [5 favorites]
Question 2: was this National Park named thusly?
Surveying Geologist: wow, this is a locally unique soil type. Do you have a name for it?
Local Guide: -shrugs- S'dirt.
posted by bartleby at 9:13 PM on September 26, 2020 [5 favorites]
Bilbies! Australian desert bunnies.
posted by Merus at 9:41 PM on September 26, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Merus at 9:41 PM on September 26, 2020 [2 favorites]
OHH I LOVE THEM VERY MUCH FOREVER
Which is also, oddly enough, the song of the feral cat.
Hope the fences hold.
posted by flabdablet at 11:16 PM on September 26, 2020
Which is also, oddly enough, the song of the feral cat.
Hope the fences hold.
posted by flabdablet at 11:16 PM on September 26, 2020
If I could make a suggestion: if you ever are visiting AUS, try to get down to Melbourne, then
Healesville. There is a lovely thing there, Healesville Sanctuary. You get to see all the lovely animals such as Bilbies. They are nocturnal so the enclosure is in a tunnel you walk through.
You get to see them doing Bilby sort of stuff 2 feet away.
Even though I'm local I still love to go to H.S. every couple of years. It's a good place.
posted by poida at 1:31 AM on September 27, 2020 [8 favorites]
Healesville. There is a lovely thing there, Healesville Sanctuary. You get to see all the lovely animals such as Bilbies. They are nocturnal so the enclosure is in a tunnel you walk through.
You get to see them doing Bilby sort of stuff 2 feet away.
Even though I'm local I still love to go to H.S. every couple of years. It's a good place.
posted by poida at 1:31 AM on September 27, 2020 [8 favorites]
Australian desert bunnies.
They even have chocolate Easter Bilbies rather than Easter Bunnies in Australia, because rabbits are regarded as pretty much irredeemable vermin there.
posted by acb at 3:56 AM on September 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
They even have chocolate Easter Bilbies rather than Easter Bunnies in Australia, because rabbits are regarded as pretty much irredeemable vermin there.
posted by acb at 3:56 AM on September 27, 2020 [7 favorites]
If the bilbies are vulnerable to cats and foxes, will they be able to manage out in the wild?
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:09 AM on September 27, 2020
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:09 AM on September 27, 2020
My backyard (mind the tomato and strawberries!) have been officially declared a bilby-safe-space!
posted by SPrintF at 10:14 AM on September 27, 2020
posted by SPrintF at 10:14 AM on September 27, 2020
Hicksu: Oh Bilbies... Not Bibles.
Found in your motel drawer, distributed by Giedons.
posted by clawsoon at 12:12 PM on September 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
Found in your motel drawer, distributed by Giedons.
posted by clawsoon at 12:12 PM on September 27, 2020 [3 favorites]
Hopefully the area will soon be a thriving Bilbie Belt!
posted by erattacorrige at 5:13 PM on September 27, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by erattacorrige at 5:13 PM on September 27, 2020 [4 favorites]
Thanks, Fiasco, lovely story that I'd missed. Love in the video the focus on looking after country by returning the Bilbies. There are some nice moments of culture that are just included without explanation in the video, such as walking through the smoke with the bilby cages. It's just the way it is, rather than something "other".
posted by freethefeet at 5:37 PM on September 27, 2020
posted by freethefeet at 5:37 PM on September 27, 2020
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Me: [clicks through] OHH I LOVE THEM VERY MUCH FOREVER
Oh my gosh, the ears! the noses! Bilbies, you have dug your spiralling burrows into my heart. Also they are related to the Bandicoot, which is fun to say.
posted by Pallas Athena at 6:39 PM on September 26, 2020 [9 favorites]