I added the Santa hats to Lyn Alcock's** beautiful photo as a gesture towards the festive season and shared it on the FaBWA group page I manage. Not long after I noticed several other Numbats with Santa hats. I don't know whether they copied my idea, or whether this is something that appears on environmental group pages at Christmas time. In the end it doesn't matter whose idea it was - the more people who fall in love with these little guys and care enough to help us stop our government from burning them and their hollow log homes the better.
Here are a couple more. I don't think they are as well executed as mine - but I'm probably biased (she says as she pointlessly searches for a laughing emoji).
To be fair - the Conservation Council of WA claimed the Numbat as their mascot long before we did. We ended up with a Numbat because the devastating 'prescribed' burn of about 65 of them and their habitat really got our members fired up. The outrage was so intense our membership grew from about 500 to 1500 in a couple of months.
Ok so this isn't a Numbat - it's 13 year old Molly in a Christmas elf's costume. She was being such a good sport for our hosts and her owners at Christmas day lunch, I though she deserved some recognition.
Our capacity to anthropomorphise animals is boundless but so enjoyable (and funny).
**Thanks to Lyn Alcock for FaBWA's Numbat photo. Lyn allows us to use all of her photos for free. She has many and just wants to help us help them.
NOTE: No animals were harmed.
Your hatted numbats are definitely better executed but then, you're a professional! They look slightly glossy, like the hats are velvet, very classy.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are standing up for the numbats (trees/ forests/ wetlands) Let's cross our fingers it works.
Haha hadn't thought of them as 'classy' Kylie but yes! I thought the hat on the standing Numbat was way too small, and the other 2 were too big - I take care with those things so yes, I try to be professional, even when I'm mucking around.
DeleteWe have a long way to go saving our poor forests - they are under siege from prescibed burns, logging and mining. I am more of a Labor than an LNP voter, but WA's Labor government has a terrible track record re the local environment. We make too much money from mining for a start. It's always about money. Very disappointing.
Those Christmas-hatted Numbats are adorable. Wonderfully photoshopped. Your Molly is a very festive little elf as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robin. They are such cute little critters. And Molly is adorable too. She isn't our dog - she belongs to my partner's daughter-in-law's parents where we spent Christmas day. She is deaf and blind but always smiling, and at 13 can still jump up on that deck chair!
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