Waychinicup National Park
Waychinicup National Park is in Western Australia, 404 kilometres (251 mi) southeast of Perth and 65 kilometres (40 mi) east of Albany, along the coast of the Southern Ocean.
Waychinicup Inlet
Waychinicup NP
Southern right whales in the park
Gilbert's potoroo or ngilkat is Australia's most endangered marsupial, the rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's rarest critically endangered mammals, found in south-western Western Australia. It is a small nocturnal macropod that lives in small groups.
Gilbert's potoroo
Illustration by Richter in Gould's Mammals of Australia (1863)
Illustration by H. C. Richter, accompanying Gould's 1841 description
Dorsal skin (Natural History Museum, London, 1841)