November 27, 2006

What's hairy, hops, and is fun to say? potoroos and bettongs and bilbies and numbats and quolls
posted by BlueHorse 18 years ago
  • And BlueHorse's Australian bestiary streak just rolls on. Have a quokka, okka.
  • does quoll rhyme with hole or with wall? we would look in Macquarie's if only we could access that Ozziest of dictionaries
  • I lika the quokka, he's fuzzy and cute. As far as the quoll, Bees I have to be mute. Oh, look, a quoll. How droll. OR Does a quoll catter-wail? 'stralia's full of nifty cri'ters Some are fuzzy, Some are biters. There's no such thing as a drop bear. No, there is not!
  • That's wot people said about the vampyres, too. the potoroo is not like me or you but more like rabbits with nocturnal habits However, I question the statement that potoroos were not discovered until the 1980s. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Potoroo \Po`to*roo"\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.
  • I question the statement that potoroos were not discovered until the 1980s. I normally don't use grade school science projects as references either. "Thomas" probably found a single species or genus which was found in 1980 and mistakenly thought it applied to the entire family. I'm sure he still got an A.
  • The nocturnal Pandemelon doesn't look too vampyric, or much like a panda, but he eats shoots and leaves.
  • Think we need to get our potoroos straightened out, mates. The long-nosed potoroo is doing OK in Tasmania, and not quite so well on the mainland. Gilbert's potoroo has got serious problems. The long-footed potoroo is rarely seen and was identified as a species only in recent times. The Broad-faced potoroo, alas, is no longer with us.
  • these potoroos aren't very big alas, they know not how to dig if they could learn to climb a tree then potoroos might safer be under the foliage nibbling herbage potoroos learn to settle deep inside some ferns before they sleep
  • What's hairy, hops, and is fun to say? I like my answer better.
  • the numbat has a long thin snout for rootling hidden termites out your hounds and terriers keep at home lest they seek to drag him down his coat is striped with brown and white he's active during broad daylight
  • Thank you, Darling, for keeping our potoroos straight. Would a potoroo eat pototoes? If he eats beans, would he be a pootoroo? If he gets cranky and fights is he a potorow?