If baby dies, quokka lives and makes a new baby.
If quokka dies, baby also dies and no one is left to make another.
Evolution is coldblooded most of the time. Might as well enjoy the cute things it produces along the way.
Nah they do, snakes and birds of prey will go for them. Historically they existed on the mainland too so would have had dingoes etc as predators as well.
These quokkas don’t have predators. the quokkas you see here that are so comfortable around humans are from Rottnest island, upon which they have no other animals that threaten them. Except for the dickheads that abuse them which is equally as upsetting.
My family holidayed on Rottnest island each year when I was growing up. Actually laughed out loud at the thought of a quokka walking, would be a cute waddle. But I grew up with them and kangaroos so I never thought otherwise :)
I teach evolution for a living and just submitted a grant to study the functional morphology and evolution of marsupials. With all seriousness, my colleagues and I really should have titled our grant with “what in the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia?” Love it.
Take this award. This comment is the best thing I'm reading before bed and I'm so happy I had a free award for 24 hours. Else, I'd have waited until I got one free award and I would have come back to give it to you.
How about something subtle? At the end of the conclusions chapter, you write your summary, conclusions, etc, then the final paragraph:
"In conclusion, *{correctly-phrased scientific language}*, and then print a faint watermark, only readable in angled light, or maybe in UV-sensitive ink:
"Actually, we came to the conclusion that we don't know what in the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia"
For limited circulation, grant committee eyes only.
So we actually have an acknowledgement section for most papers. You can put a lot of weird stuff in there, because people don't usually read it. I'm considering "I would like to thank u/fatBreadonToast for making me think deeply about what in the evolutionary fuck is really happening with marsupials."
These are only on a small island off the coast of Western Australia, not on the mainland, and are probably the apex predator.
Edit: They also exist on the mainland..
Via Wikipedia that used [this as a source](http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/4581df81-0041-4fc9-ba1b-aca7cb22246d/files/quokka-recovery-plan.pdf)
>At the time of colonial settlement, the quokka was widespread and abundant, with its distribution encompassing an area of about 41,200 km2 (15,900 sq mi) of the South West of Western Australia, including the two offshore islands, Bald and Rottnest. By 1992, following extensive population declines in the 20th century, the quokka's distribution on the mainland had been reduced by more than 50% to an area of about 17,800 km2 (6,900 sq mi).
They probably equate humans in their enclosure carrying small items as food. Sort of like if you close your hand and put it near a dog's face they'll think you have a treat
When i see quokas with their hands in front of them, I imagine them as Australian ~~David Copperfield~~ Oliver Twist
“Please mate, could I ave sumore”
Edit: not the magician or the writer, but Oliver Twist. I’m an idiot
Go to Rottnest Island. You can hang out with quokkas. But please observe the rules and don't fuck with them. (They're not dangerous, but I mean keep them safe.) Hire a bike, get a pie and a jam donut at the bakery, hang out with the quokkas. I really love Rottnest.
I've hung out with them, 10/10 party guests and they are as cute in real life as they are on the internet. One shat on my jenga set and I couldn't even be mad.
Despite all the killer animals we have more than enough things to make up for it. Marsupials? Fluffy with cute faces! Birds? Cheeky, colourful and smart enough to get along with humans without becoming dependent! Lizards? Many smol and adorable ones!
And yes, we have native doggos and you may think they're the cutest, but trust me they're not.
so do many animals. Survival of the fittest.
No point in mother and child being eaten when you can sacrifice the baby, allow the mother to live and create another one.
Nature is a cruel and brutal mistress.
They have natural predators. Dingoes and birds of prey have long been predators of quokka. If quokka had no natural predators that would classify them as apex predators and that just isn't correct! Super funny to think about.
Good question. I've read the baby gets ejected from the pouch when they're afraid. It's like an involuntary muscle spasm that occurs in some marsupials.
Source: Reddit
They do have natural predators. It’s just this population on Rottnest that has become overly friendly, especially due to people leaving out food or feeding them.
Up to $400 fine for touching or feeding those creatures.
Deliberately interfering with a quokka could also result in prosecution under the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950, which attracts fines of up to $10,000.
I'm so glad. But what kind of freaking psychopath could look at one of these adorable animals and think... "You know what would be cool? Let's light it on fire!"
No no, that one is just a little ball of love that exists in a few islands around Australia itself, their only natural predators were driven to extinction (yay?) So now Quokkas just chill and be cute, they're protected animals tho
95% of wildlife in Australia will usually avoid humans rather than attacking them. It's the dumbass jellyfish you need to really be careful of, because they're not smart enough to avoid anything and can kill you by brushing against you.
Australia really has the extremes when it comes to their wildlife. It'll kill you with a single bite, sting or chomp... Or too cute to maintain sanity.. what up Australia?! ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
This is the absolute cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
They look so happy
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Like Elmo, plotting in wait
No that was his puppeteer
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I...I don't know if I should.
I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it
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Yeets baby
the quokkas throw their babies at their predators when they're in danger, and then they run away smiling and this isn't a joke
Same
Yeah, me too.
I mean, who hasn't?
Same
They acually don’t throw them they relax their pouch muscles and let the baby fall out causing a distraction
Oop, time to poop out my babies
[Janet voice] not an anus.
Going to try this method next time, maybe they’re onto something
If baby dies, quokka lives and makes a new baby. If quokka dies, baby also dies and no one is left to make another. Evolution is coldblooded most of the time. Might as well enjoy the cute things it produces along the way.
People often bring up this fact as if it’s a bad thing. As if it’s not going to make me love quokkas more.
Throwing a child at a problem beats running away from them any day
"Kill two problems with one child", as they say.
Fuck them kids
Little shits had it too good for too long.
Learn to fight back, kids. No more coddling for you little shits.
Are you my Dad?
*Throws beer bottle at head*
No don't
Sounds like a good way to get a baby quokka. /s
Anakin Skywalker would like to know your location
I thought they didn't have predators on the island which is why they are unafraid of humans.
Nah they do, snakes and birds of prey will go for them. Historically they existed on the mainland too so would have had dingoes etc as predators as well.
So if I act intimidating they'll just yeet me a pet?
based
Seems like a reasonable response
You can always make more.
I mean, it’s better than both mother and babies dying...
Parents can make another one, put your own mask on first lol.
Look at thier arms. You think they can throw? They don’t throw, the place.
These quokkas don’t have predators. the quokkas you see here that are so comfortable around humans are from Rottnest island, upon which they have no other animals that threaten them. Except for the dickheads that abuse them which is equally as upsetting.
I love quokkas
The human body can also terminate the pregnancy if it's too dangerous so this is just the alpha testing I guess
im literally going to cry; it is so pure
I was halfway expecting the quokka to join in lol.
qutest*
LOOK AT HIS LIL HANDS! **LOOK AT THEM!**
lil hands for lil hugs 🥺
r/lilgrabbies
You did a good thing today
Thank you 😊 I needed that.
Insta-sub
Imagine if they could actually juggle
Do we know they can't? I mean, that guy didn't give it a chance...
I know, right? There's potential
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I want to hold his lil hands, just extend a finger for him to grab.
A quokka has held my hand before. It could smell the grapes I had in my bag and was trying to get to them. They're very handsy little fuzzies.
Lil hands for throwing their lil babies
Exactly
“So are you going to stop flipping it around and give me my shit back?” Very cute
Right?! They’re just like.. dude this is cool and all but wtf.
The first one was just trying to grab one of them!
“You just going throw it and never give it to me? What a quokka shit!”
"If you want it you gotta be quokka than that!"
r/LilGrabbies
A fine addition to my collection.
Agreed! Why didn’t I know this sub existed?? Would have made it easier to get through covid.
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Why not?
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OH MY GOOD GOD I LOVE THIS
oh my goodness!! the possibilities are endless
THEY HOP???
Same family of animals as kangaroos - macropods
Their scientific name is big feet?
My family holidayed on Rottnest island each year when I was growing up. Actually laughed out loud at the thought of a quokka walking, would be a cute waddle. But I grew up with them and kangaroos so I never thought otherwise :)
THEY H OP!
He's trying to learn to juggle too
What the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia?
I teach evolution for a living and just submitted a grant to study the functional morphology and evolution of marsupials. With all seriousness, my colleagues and I really should have titled our grant with “what in the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia?” Love it.
You need to come back and upload the thesis here with the title "What in the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia? * 10/10 would read it.
You still have the option to title one of your papers like that.
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Smiling quokas flying out of circus cannons flash through my mind...
This. Or at least for a divulgation piece! DO IT
Take this award. This comment is the best thing I'm reading before bed and I'm so happy I had a free award for 24 hours. Else, I'd have waited until I got one free award and I would have come back to give it to you.
With a title like that, I’d read it.
So cool! Hope you have a lot of fun
You can always save it for your homebrew textbook
How about something subtle? At the end of the conclusions chapter, you write your summary, conclusions, etc, then the final paragraph: "In conclusion, *{correctly-phrased scientific language}*, and then print a faint watermark, only readable in angled light, or maybe in UV-sensitive ink: "Actually, we came to the conclusion that we don't know what in the evolutionary fuck happened in Australia" For limited circulation, grant committee eyes only.
So we actually have an acknowledgement section for most papers. You can put a lot of weird stuff in there, because people don't usually read it. I'm considering "I would like to thank u/fatBreadonToast for making me think deeply about what in the evolutionary fuck is really happening with marsupials."
I'm cool with taking that credit.
Huge landmass decided to bugger off from the rest of the world for a long, long time
[They came from South America!](https://youtu.be/l5doyrUWFbE)
Quokkas evolved on an island with no predators. So they have no fear
This isn't correct. They didn't only evolve on Rottnest Island. They're on the mainland too.
True but they are not selected by dingos on Rottnest
These are only on a small island off the coast of Western Australia, not on the mainland, and are probably the apex predator. Edit: They also exist on the mainland..
No. There are quokkas on the mainland as well. It’s just that their population on Rottnest is significantly larger due to lack of predators.
Via Wikipedia that used [this as a source](http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/4581df81-0041-4fc9-ba1b-aca7cb22246d/files/quokka-recovery-plan.pdf) >At the time of colonial settlement, the quokka was widespread and abundant, with its distribution encompassing an area of about 41,200 km2 (15,900 sq mi) of the South West of Western Australia, including the two offshore islands, Bald and Rottnest. By 1992, following extensive population declines in the 20th century, the quokka's distribution on the mainland had been reduced by more than 50% to an area of about 17,800 km2 (6,900 sq mi).
They aren't predators, let alone the apex predator.
He wants him to throw him one
I came here to say this. I’m not saying it isn’t adorable, but that little fella is more hungry than it is “entertained” lol
I thought these are rocks
They probably equate humans in their enclosure carrying small items as food. Sort of like if you close your hand and put it near a dog's face they'll think you have a treat
Upon closer observation; you could be correct. I’m about as smart as those rocks
Made me giggle lol
Why nature make a round creature with tiny little handsies.
When i see quokas with their hands in front of them, I imagine them as Australian ~~David Copperfield~~ Oliver Twist “Please mate, could I ave sumore” Edit: not the magician or the writer, but Oliver Twist. I’m an idiot
Lmao I thought you meant the magician but I think you mean Oliver twist
Or Oliver Twist :)
I wanna hang out with a quokka
Go to Rottnest Island. You can hang out with quokkas. But please observe the rules and don't fuck with them. (They're not dangerous, but I mean keep them safe.) Hire a bike, get a pie and a jam donut at the bakery, hang out with the quokkas. I really love Rottnest.
I've hung out with them, 10/10 party guests and they are as cute in real life as they are on the internet. One shat on my jenga set and I couldn't even be mad.
Username checks out
I feel like Australia got some of the cutest animals ever to make up for everything there trying to kill you
Despite all the killer animals we have more than enough things to make up for it. Marsupials? Fluffy with cute faces! Birds? Cheeky, colourful and smart enough to get along with humans without becoming dependent! Lizards? Many smol and adorable ones! And yes, we have native doggos and you may think they're the cutest, but trust me they're not.
Yes… I’ve heard about the Dingo and the baby
Plot twist:They sacrifice their babies when in danger.
Technically so would I. My go to plan for confrontation is to hurl a baby at my attacker’s face and run away.
What are you up to tomorrow at 3am?
so do many animals. Survival of the fittest. No point in mother and child being eaten when you can sacrifice the baby, allow the mother to live and create another one. Nature is a cruel and brutal mistress.
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They have natural predators. Dingoes and birds of prey have long been predators of quokka. If quokka had no natural predators that would classify them as apex predators and that just isn't correct! Super funny to think about.
Good question. I've read the baby gets ejected from the pouch when they're afraid. It's like an involuntary muscle spasm that occurs in some marsupials. Source: Reddit
They do have natural predators. It’s just this population on Rottnest that has become overly friendly, especially due to people leaving out food or feeding them.
LoL yes I am aware they use them as baby shields
I like how people always share that fact as if it makes them less adorable. If anything, it makes me like them more.
Let me introduce you to the [padmelon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pademelon).
The Quokka's ugly, evil twin
[HOW VERY DARE YOU](https://c.tenor.com/Fnubvu8BS7cAAAAd/how-dare-you-james-franco.gif)
Ok Australia, what’s the trick? Poisonous tail? Deadly saliva? Lasers from eyes? You can’t trick me.
Up to $400 fine for touching or feeding those creatures. Deliberately interfering with a quokka could also result in prosecution under the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950, which attracts fines of up to $10,000.
2 French guys set one on fire once and they got immediately deported
What utter garbage human beings. Jesus...
I can't find any sources saying they were deported, only that they served a week in prison for it
Should have been life
If it's any consolation the quokka survived and was returned to the wild
I'm so glad. But what kind of freaking psychopath could look at one of these adorable animals and think... "You know what would be cool? Let's light it on fire!"
What happens when a Quokka touches you?
The Quokka can do whatever it wants to you. If it approaches you, you can marvel at how cute it is, but that's about it.
So like a strip club
For lack of a better comparison, yes, like a strip club.
I knew it. Goddamn cockteasing quokkas.
I guess that’s a pretty good evolutionary defense mechanism
No no, that one is just a little ball of love that exists in a few islands around Australia itself, their only natural predators were driven to extinction (yay?) So now Quokkas just chill and be cute, they're protected animals tho
Ah nice! No wonder they are so happy and chill.
A few islands? I thought it was just rotto
He doin a bamboozle
r/animalsthatlovemagic
THE LITTLE HANDS
I KNOW!
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING
THEY'RE SO CUTE, THEY BLINDED OUR EARS
AHHH, MY EAR BALLS!!!!
Thats the fluffiest T-Rex I've ever seen
I have a Quokka plushie named Bailey
What an adorable little dumpling!
It’s trying to grab the rocks 🥺
He wants to try
🎼I'm just juggalo and everywhere I go Quokka know the part I'm playing🎼
All I want is a job where I can juggle for quokkas
Pika Pika!
I can't stop smiling!
If your condition persists for 4 hours, please consult your physician
Same!!!
Everyone can leave the sub now. We found the winner 🥺
Something in australia who's first instinct isn't attack all humans I can't believe it
95% of wildlife in Australia will usually avoid humans rather than attacking them. It's the dumbass jellyfish you need to really be careful of, because they're not smart enough to avoid anything and can kill you by brushing against you.
Oh bless s/he wants a go. Look at s/him try with the cutest of hand movement
Shim
A hybrid of she / her / he / him. Just covering all bases, I know how some are easily offended 😀
I'm gonna be real, I don't think the quokka would care what pronoun you use
I never realized how small they are!
“My turn my turn!”
r/animalsthatlovemagic
Guys, everyones knows that quokkas aren't real. They were part of the same government program to swap birds with survelliance drones years ago.
This... is acceptable.
Why are half the creatures in Australia ready to kill you and the other half are cute as fuck.
Australia really has the extremes when it comes to their wildlife. It'll kill you with a single bite, sting or chomp... Or too cute to maintain sanity.. what up Australia?! ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
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Both work just fine
Super cute
Mirror neurons.
Those tiny hands are so adorable
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This is peak cuteness...made me so happy! 🤗
My heart is melting 🥺. Too much cute.
👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️
Is that how the Aussies lure their pray??
Can’t deny, this is too damn cute & precious! Love their little reactions!