Ok, so I was doing this word search puzzle..
...while waiting for someone who was having a medical procedure done.
The page theme was 'Marsupials'.
There were a LOT of them I'd never heard of.
So when I got back home I looked them up .
And OMG, this one is just adorable!
It's called a Quokka.
Do an image search on it - you won't be disappointed.
They're as cute as a button, and look like they're smiling! 
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Those critters are fascinating for sure. Nowhere near as cute as the quokka 
but definitely fascinating.
Random piece of trivia: In Platypus: the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world by Ann Moyal, the author reveals that "When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax."
That's right, because it was just so dang bizarre, the guys back in England thought they were being pranked by someone who had attached a duck's bill and feet to the pelt of some fur-bearing animal. 
Of course, we now know that Australia is a treasure trove of unique animals (including a host of marsupials like our friend the quokka, a genus of which few species exist in other parts of the world). But that was not known to anyone except the indigenous people of Australia until the Brits started poking around down under, and the emerging science of zoology got turned on its ear for a while there. 
