{"id":479,"date":"2014-06-08T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=479"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:35:30","slug":"quokka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/quokka","title":{"rendered":"Quokka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quokkas are marsupial,<\/p>\n

and live where it is hot,<\/p>\n

they have a jumping habit,<\/p>\n

are small, and smile a lot,<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

those Australian dingoes<\/span><\/p>\n

will scoff them on the trot –<\/span><\/p>\n

Oz was chock-a-block-a-quokkas,<\/span><\/p>\n

but now they’re hard to spot!<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Liz Brownlee 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quokkas look like tiny wallabies, with round, smiling faces. They are macropods, in the same family as kangaroos and wallabies.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are nocturnal (awake at night) herbivores, eating grasses, seeds and roots which they swallow and regurgitate to chew later, like a cow or other ruminant.<\/span><\/p>\n

They used to be very common but their numbers have dwindled and now their main population is on a small island offshore of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting fact about quokkas is that they can survive without water – if it is there they will drink it, but they can go months without it. \u00a0They can, despite being a jumping animal,\u00a0 climb trees!<\/p>\n

If you would like to see a picture, here is one, taken by David Burton, on Flikr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Poem \u00a9 Liz Brownlee<\/p>\n

Image \u00a9 David Burton<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back to poems<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Quokkas are marsupial, and live where it is hot, they have a jumping habit, are small, and smile a lot, . those Australian dingoes will scoff them on the trot – Oz was chock-a-block-a-quokkas, but now they’re hard to spot! . \u00a9 Liz Brownlee 2014 . Quokkas look like tiny wallabies, with round, smiling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[26,32,60,74,186,187],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-poems","category-poems-animations","tag-the","tag-as","tag-where","tag-poetry","tag-quokka","tag-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}