Miro doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to change. The one-year-old Numbat has lived at Perth Zoo since birth under the watchful eyes of keepers, who have had to met his challenging diet ...

Zoo nutritionists these days have to do more than try to keep displayed animals happy and healthy. Sometimes the goal is to bring endangered... To make the New Numbat Artificial Diet, mix together ...

Lyn Alcock is known as the 'Numbat whisperer', spending hours every day observing and photographing the tiny, endangered marsupials, recording behaviours that have never been seen before.

Captive-bred endangered numbats find a new home in the wild of WA. FIFTEEN CAPTIVE numbats have been released into Dryandra Woodland south-east of Perth, in an attempt to boost the region’s wild ...

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More than a dozen critically endangered numbats are adapting to their new home inside a predator-proof zone in Western Australia's outback. Australia's numbat population has been decimated by ...

It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence, or genome. It’s not quite as straightforward as ...

To make the New Numbat Artificial Diet, mix together powdered cat chow, hen's eggs and water. Cook on low heat for 10 minutes and cool. Add calcium carbonate, a vitamin-mineral supplement, cellulose ...

The Perth Zoo's numbats have produced 25 babies this year — a new record. To make the New Numbat Artificial Diet, mix together powdered cat chow, hen's eggs and water. Cook on low heat for 10 minutes ...