Image credit – Juvenile numbats (Myrmecobius fasciatus) in the Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia. September 2015. © John Lawson / WWF-Aus

Numbats are one of the more unusual Australian marsupials – unlike most of our native species they’re active during the day, are carnivorous, have an incredibly long tongue and their diet is almost exclusively termites.

Numbats are extinct in the wild throughout Australia with the exception of WA, where they are the faunal emblem of that state. Reintroduced populations of numbats have been established in recent years at a few protected sanctuaries in South Australia (e.g., Yookamurra Sanctuary) and New South Wales (e.g., Scotia Sanctuary), behind predator-proof fences.

You can find out more fun facts about numbats in The Murray Darling Basin informative colouring book due to be released in late August.

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