Four juvenile numbats have been spotted at Secret Rocks on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula for the first time, sparking new hope for the region’s reintroduction program.
“We reintroduced some numbats last November-December, and this is the first time they’ve bred since then,” Ecological Horizons ecologist Katherine Moseby said.
“We’ve got four juveniles we’ve spotted on camera outside one of our female’s burrows so it’s really exciting.”
They can be really sort of cryptic when they have pouch young, they deposit them in the nest and then they kind of hide the entrance of the nest so they’re quite hard to find."
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Four juvenile numbats have been spotted at Secret Rocks on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula for the first time, sparking new hope for the region’s reintroduction program.
The young marsupials were sighted outside their mother’s burrow in early September, nearly a year after a team of ecologists started reintroducing the animals to the Secret Rocks area.
“We reintroduced some numbats last November-December, and this is the first time they’ve bred since then,” Ecological Horizons ecologist Katherine Moseby said.
Dr Moseby, with partner John Read, released 16 numbats in an enclosure at Secret Rocks at the end of last year.
“Spring is a really good time, particularly for little carnivorous marsupials, to have raised young before the hot summer months,” she said.
Dr Moseby warned drivers visiting the Secret Rocks region to be careful of abundant malleefowl.
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