2026-07-23 16:00 UTC
Australia’s numbat is off the endangered list. The striped, termite-eating marsupial has been downlisted by the IUCN to near-threatened, capping a 40-year recovery. Sustained fox and cat control lifted numbers from about 300 in the late 1970s to around 3,000 today. Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/once-endangered-australias-numbat-is-making-a-hopeful-recovery/
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-23 16:15
@adapalmer@wandering.shop Bonus trivia: It is a coincidence that the names "wombat" and "numbat" sound similar. They are from unrelated languages spoken on opposite sides of Australia.
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@drewph@ieji.de 2026-07-24 03:19
@adapalmer@wandering.shop And I thought numbat was something invented by #Ubuntu. You live and learn.
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@nrmacdonald@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 13:36
@adapalmer@wandering.shop The Numbat & the Platypus https://youtu.be/RMo94KzAXXI