Outfoxed: How well do you know your native animals? Australians’ questionable quoll knowledge exposed

An eastern quoll. The animals were once found in Melbourne and Sydney as late as the 1960s. Photograph: Aussie Ark

Most people identify wombats and kangaroos as Australian animals, but one in six people surveyed in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria think red foxes are native wildlife.

The polling commissioned by the Invasive Species Council also revealed that one in three Australians on the east coast did not know that quolls were native.