Your New Favorite Animal: Numbats!

    Allow me to introduce the sweetest li'l secret on this fine earth: the NUMBAT. These endangered little marsupials are Australian, adorable, useful (they eat as many as 20,000 termites per day!), and they are also known as Walpurti. Walpurti!

    Summer Anne Burton
    by Summer Anne Burton

    BuzzFeed Staff

    This is a numbat

    Hand-raising baby numbats at the Perth Zoo

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    Baby numbats

    Collared numbat

    Sassy prance you got there, numbat!

    Loungin' numbat

    Numbats standing on branches

    Numbats play-fighting

    Numbat stare-down

    Curious numbats

    YAWN!

    A Numbat Bento Box

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    Love You, Numbats!