Meet a Pademelon

[Gem]

The first one, with its tiny little paws made me go "Awww." Mainly because I thought it was a baby kangaroo or something (before I read the post). Then in all the other ones, it looked like a rat to me Pretty much took the cuteness out of it for me. You got some cool animals down there, MA! I'm surprised you haven't been mauled yet

[tomorrowstreasures]

how cute!!!!

[Travis]

nice shootin

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks all.
Again being rainforest it was very dark. In places it was so dark you had to give your eyes time to adjust ... hence so much flash work in these photos.

JJ, yes they are timid as I mentioned in my first post. I've never been able to get this close to one before. Roo's and wallabies are easy if they used to people but pademelons usually don't seem to get trusting at all.

Gem, definitely not related to rats ... they are part of the marsupial family of macropods which of course includes kangaroos and wallabies. So there you go ... you can love him again.