Image: Moore's numbat

Description: This is a reproduction of the first ever drawing of a Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus). George Fletcher Moore drew it in his diary on 22 September 1831, after seeing one of the animals for the first time during an expedition to the Avon Valley under Ensign Robert Dale. The relevant accompanying text is: "... chase another of those little animals into a hollowed tree, succeed in getting it, suppose it to be an ant eater from the length of its tongue & other reasons - its colour is yellowish barred with black & white streaks across the hinder parts of its back - length about 12 inches."
Title: Moore's numbat
Credit: It was scanned from a reproduction in Shoobert, Joanne (ed.) (2006) Western Australian Exploration Volume One December 1826 – December 1835: The Letters, Reports & Journals of Exploration and Discovery in Western Australia. Victoria Park: Hesperian Press
Author: George Fletcher Moore
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