MARVELS, TAILED AND WINGED
Recently landed: Marvels, tailed and winged
Our fascination with entomology broadens as a new project continues to bubble in the wings, and just like our The Earth is Us contribution, it is but only fitting that the trio of ringtail joeys, newly arrived and super timid, as they settle, should be named after some of the artists whose work we have been admiring and discussing of late, in the collections of SLV and the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. Please meet Helena and Harriet, named after the clever Scott sisters, and Ed, named after Edward Donovan.
Continuing reading on Marginalia.
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20th of April, 2025
In further pages both tiny and wild, Hans, a juvenile Gould’s wattled bat, who came into care in the first week of the new year, and Arp, a fellow Gould’s wattled bat, who came into care recently, returned home to the top end of the city, all but wing in wing, the other warm night. Hans and Arp, while in the outdoor enclosure, had buddied up, and would eat their mealworms alongside one another, as if part of a medieval marginalia grapevine come to life.
