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Erin Thomas

@erinbthomas.bsky.social

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Equollogist in training | PhD candidate @UTAS based in Lutruwita|Tasmania researching eastern quoll translocations | quoll pun and small mammal enthusiast 🐀 she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Erin Thomas @erinbthomas.bsky.social · Jul 10

juvenile quolls 🤝 banjo music

Reposted by Erin Thomas

Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · Jun 18

📣 New quoll science, looking at the genetic outcomes of a translocation of eastern quolls in Tasmania! 🧪🧬

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵Thread below ⬇️

An eastern quoll peeking out from a nest of dry grass

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Erin Thomas @erinbthomas.bsky.social · Jun 12

Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025

Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4

See you there!

Quollity Control
Identifying eastern quoll behaviours to increase translocation success

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Erin Thomas @erinbthomas.bsky.social · Jun 5

Dropped eastern quoll VHF trackers can be real sneaky and hard to find, dropped in burrows, in log piles and sometimes just camouflaged. Can you spot the VHF tag in this image?

This photo was taken while pinpointing a signal, without realising the tag was in frame!
#wildoz

A photo of grass and leaves on the ground with a vhf tag wrapped in tape visible

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University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au · Mar 3

Celebrating a wildlife win on World Wildlife Day, with quoll-ity conservation outcomes 🤩

Our scientists joined with several partners to kick off one of the biggest eastern quoll conservation efforts ever seen in Tasmania!

More: brnw.ch/quoll
(Follow @drdevildave.bsky.social for more quoll BEANS)

David Hamilton releases a quoll into the wild
Photo credit: Cath Dickson

A close up of quoll feet
Photo credit: David Hamilton

A close up of a quoll in an enclosure
Photo credit: Chloe Frick

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