oh! we have those here. theyre a bit rarer in the foothills but if you head up the mountains a bit you can find them

It must be neat having such diversity in mammals! Most of our marsupials here are rare, endangered, or extinct, so we don't have much in that kind of mid-range tier of the ecosystem where skunks and other musteloids are in NA.

ohhh i get really heartboken over aus ecology like all the time... having a lot of aus friends who share wildlife pics w me doesnt help haha. theres a fair amount of mammals we are missing here too tho, we should have both mexican wolves and jaguars in range but theyve been largely exterminated. theres a museum/zoo here that caters specifically to the ecoregion we live in and they just recently got a group of mex wolves which has been very exciting

Ahh, that would be super exciting! We still have extant dingoes where I am (which isn't 'the outback') and it's always good to see them. One of these days I'd love to actually see a numbat and a devil in the wild - I've seen quolls and possums a plenty, but those two would be something special indeed. I've also been lucky enough to see some of our smaller, more obscure marsupials like phascogales and antechinus!

one of my pals is out in tasmania, theyve seen wild devils and gone out to catch velvet worms and i think those are one of the weirdest little things you got over there. i know theyre not exclusive to australia but they dont have any range in north america outside of the most southern reach of mexico ;__;

AAUUUUGH I'd cry of joy seeing velvet worms!

Beautiful illustration! Was this done with watercolors and pens or a mix of oils and digital?

Thanks! Fully digital, painted from scratch.

oh my god this is so freakin' gorgeous! <3<3

Thanks Nire ^^ I had such fun with it