{"id":4937,"date":"2025-09-05T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:41:55","slug":"the-gang-discovers-unusually-spiky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4937","title":{"rendered":"The Gang Discovers Unusually Spiky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Species in Danger<\/strong><br>A species once near extinction now has new hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biologists in Australia are celebrating after a successful reproduction effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discovery at Mt Gibson<\/strong><br>Ecologists at Mount Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary found a litter of young \u201cwestern quolls,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a cat-sized marsupial carnivore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The species, also called chuditchs, had been largely wiped out since European settlement and now survives in small groups in southwestern Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ecological Role<\/strong><br>Western quolls help control populations of birds, reptiles, and tiny invertebrates, making them important for the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/view-wild-rodent_23-2150793371-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27418\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Signs of Success<\/strong><br>Researchers say the quolls are thriving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough regular monitoring, we can see the quolls are doing well at the sanctuary and encountering the first pouch young is a positive sign that they have adjusted to the new environment,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>said Georgina Anderson, AWC Senior Field Ecologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added, \u201cOne quoll that we\u2019ve named Aang is a regular at camera traps\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>often making rounds of multiple sites to collect the chicken we use as lures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chudith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27423\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Species in DangerA species once near extinction now has new hope. Biologists in Australia are celebrating after a successful reproduction effort. Discovery at Mt GibsonEcologists at Mount Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary found a litter of young \u201cwestern quolls,\u201d a cat-sized marsupial carnivore. The species, also called chuditchs, had been largely wiped out since European settlement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}