1 Agile Antechinus at Doctor George Mountain, NSW
Identification history
| Antechinus agilis | 6 Jun 2020 | AndrewMcCutcheon |
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User's notes
The residents at the Dr George Mountain property thought the small droppings in a shed beside the house were from House Mice, and were planning to put out some poison bait. I thought otherwise, so I set my motion sensing camera to find the small mammals responsible for the droppings were Agile Antechinus. Needless to say no mouse poison was put out.
2 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
7 Jun 2020
I doubt they would have eaten it even if it had been, being carnivores. But if there were mice also present, they might have consumed the dead mice perhaps.
AndrewMcCutcheon
wrote:
7 Jun 2020
Thanks, Jackie, for the confirmation. After an experience in 2007 when a male Agile Antechinus was found dying (and died an hour later) in my brother's Gippsland farmhouse where some mouse poison was put out supposedly for house mice, I was concerned it may have eaten or just tasted some of the bait. But as the time of this incident was in early June, I also realized that male antechinus naturally die about this time of the year (they only live for about twelve months) to ensure there is less competition for food and the possibility of becoming a predator of the next antechinus generation when they are born. So, it may have died anyway, and it was just coincidental that mouse bait was placed nearby.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.905737-36.652881
- Places Doctor George Mountain, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 30 Mar 2015 02:45 AM Recorded on
- AndrewMcCutcheon Recorded by
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Collections
Mammals Small Marsupials Antechinuses AndrewMcCutcheon
Species information
- Antechinus agilis Scientific name
- Agile Antechinus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1666.88m Recorded at altitude
- 85 images trained Machine learning
