Animal tales

Animal tales



Here’s a few ani­mals that came to us each with a curi­ous tale to tell. Warn­ing: cute­ness overload.


Return to sender

This unstamped mail is a pygmy pos­sum (main pic­ture) which unex­pect­ed­ly turned up in a Min­la­ton mail bag. Our Dhil­ba Guu­ran­da-Innes Nation­al Park rangers cared for it overnight then returned it to its nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment in southern‪ ‎Yorke Penin­su­la. Pygmy pos­sums, although noc­tur­nal and hard to spot, are anoth­er great rea­son to vis­it Dhil­ba Guu­ran­da-Innes Nation­al Park.

Baby boom

Last year we cel­e­brat­ed the arrival of six­ty Idnya babies (west­ern quolls) to the Flinders Ranges. These Idnya are the first to be born in the Flinders Ranges for more than 150 years and are the off­spring of west­ern quolls that were rein­tro­duced to the park last year (pho­to: Han­nah Bannister).

Animal tales

A unique find

This juve­nile leafy sead­rag­on was spot­ted and pho­tographed by Carl Char­ter while he was div­ing Hal­lett Cove beach reef. It’s around 4 to 6 weeks old and mea­sures 8 cm. Carl says adult leafys haven’t been report­ed in the met­ro­pol­i­tan area for at least 10 years, mak­ing this a real­ly excit­ing find. If you see a leafy sea drag­on, report your sight­ing to help Reef Watch SA.

Animal tales


This con­tent was pro­duced in part­ner­ship with  Good Living