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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Richardson" data-source="post: 1918545" data-attributes="member: 43216">I remember driving through the night from Newcastle (NSW) to Brisbane (Queensland) hoping for some decent mammal sightings. Apart from rodents we saw nothing but foxes, including one unlucky individual which my friend ran over (not deliberately!). We probably saw a fair number of feral cats.In comparison, a short night drive around Bruny Island (Tasmania) yielded about 10 Eastern Quolls, an Echidna, bandicoots and countless macropods of several species.Tasmania is certainly better if you want to see small mammals!It’s an interesting point about Dingos not being present on Tasmania. I just hope Red Foxes never become established. There is certainly some paranoia amongst the conservationists, although I can’t think of any reason (e.g. economic) why there would be a deliberate release of Red Fox to Tasmania (at least not in this day and age!).</blockquote>