I believe so! Definitely a small marsupial and not a rodent if that's what you were wondering. I might be able to narrow it down to species... Roughly what area are you holidaying in?

Hmmm I can totally try replicating this with my 80-300mm. I'll scour UQ I remember you saying there was at least one regular there.

What's your camera equipment for these shots?

Yeah absolutely. I'd probably categorise that as altering life instead of creating as well. I'm simply wondering if we can get to a point where we can create "biological" life shall we say from complete scratch. Code a whole organism if you will.

That's true, there's plenty of unique organisms around because of us, but I'd argue that is less so "creating" than it is "guiding" pre-existing life.

And what if we start making things with specific chemical systems that are also brand new?

Oh wow I haven't seen someone online talk about hEDS unprompted in a while. I also have hEDS. Once dislocated my shoulder trying to reach for something..... With my other arm lmao.

Gutsick Gibbon is my go to cooking dinner YouTuber

Rats are cool but hear me out.... Antechinus?

God the horrible political ads were what made me leave twitter. Infuriating.

While at a much lower rate than the males, many of the females still die after only one year of life. Oh yeah, maturity is reached at less than one year! Meaning a whole generation of Antechinus' comes and goes every single year! That might be the end of the thread for now. Thanks for the read.

With the biggest litter of any Australian marsupial, 8-10 babies is quite the task for an Antechinus mother. Like any marsupial, the young are born as a more... jelly-bean like entity, who are raised in the pouch for a while before maturing a bit. From here, the mothers are still likely to die :(

A massive surge of stress hormones flood the male, causing them to go into a mating frenzy. They simply start falling apart, from stress. Not eatin', not sleepin', only bangin'. Their immune systems fail and eventually... they die... But only the males! The females live on to produce the young...

Okay. Let's move on to the big one. Reproduction. The males are almost universally "semelparous," meaning that after reproduction, basically every single male dies except in extremely rare cases. The cause of death? Extreme horniness.

But enough about mice, back to my homeslices. Antechinus' have a very broad range across Australia, you can expect to find them in any major population center, and basically anywhere with a decent covering of vegetation. The east coast, like many Aussie animals, is wehere they truly thrive, however.

One of the best ways to tell them apart, is just by looking at their teeth! The characteristic "two long front teeth" of a rodent is nowehere to be found in Antechinus', with fare more smaller and sharper teeth lining their mouths. To be honest, you wouldn't want to get bitten by either.

Antechinus are small, mostly insectivorous marsupial found across Australia. Despite their appearances, Antechinus’ are barely related to rodents like mice and rats. In fact, any given rodent is more closely related to you than any average Antechinus.