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Tiger Quoll - Coggle Diagram
Tiger Quoll
polygynous, one male mates with mutiple females
Breed in April-July
Gestation Period last 21 days
5 young
Pouch of mother, 2 weeks, they grow
Feeding, food into the pouch
Dont carry them on her back
Tend to rest on her and cling if threatened
Full independence-18 - 21 weeks
Sexual maturity 1 year
Femal will vocalise when in estrus to attract a male
Young are blind 50-60 days after birth
Apperance
Males are larger than females
Males- 2.5 - 3.5 kg
Females- 1.5 - 2 kg
Largest Quoll speices
Females= 1 Litter per year=5 young
Largest of the 4 speices in Australia
Reddish-brown, dark brown, light brown
Body and Tail, white markings
Females, smaller
Short legs
Tail=Head and body combied
Diet
important predators in the environment
small Antechinus species and native rats to possums, birds, reptiles, invertebrates
feed on carrion when avalible
small wallabies, rats, bandicoots, rabbits,
Carnivores
insects, crayfish, lizards, snakes, domestic poultry, small mammals, platypus, wallabies, pademelons, wombats
find possums and birds at night
catch the prey they pin the animal and bite the skull or neck.
Threats
Biggest threat- habitat loss
Tasmanian Devils
Dingoes
Masked Owls
Large Pythons
Wedge tailed Eagles
Foxes cats wild dogs taking their food
Threatened and deacreasing
Habitat
rainforest to wet and dry eucalypt forest and woodlands
Females defensive of home range
Occupy exclusive territory
resting in underground hollows
den in an underground burrow, cave, tree hollow, hollow log, rock crevices and even under people’s houses
Males larger home range than females
Habits/ lifestyle/ social
Solitary and nocturnal
Hunt at night
Females defend their home reanges against other females
Mothers communicate with their babies with a special clucking call, the babies respond with the same
Noises such as huffs, coughs, hisses, pericing screams.
They are silent most of the time