Meet The Happiest Animals On Earth Named Quokkas

Everyone meet quokkas the happiest animal on world, there wasn’t many people outside of Australia to hear about those cute little animals, but it turned out the quokkas became an internet sensation.The quokkas live in clans and they fed themselves predominately with plants. A large part of their population lives on the Rottnest Island. There are around 12,000 individuals and less than 14,000 all over Australia.

History of the quokka Quokkas were first spotted in 1658 when a Dutchman named Volkerson said that they resembled an Asian civet cat, but with brown fur. He was the first European to record the sighting of a quokka. In 1696, Dutchman Willem de Vlamingh also discovered the quokkas and described them as large rats. He named the 19km square island just of the coast of Perth, "Ratte nest" which translated from Dutch to mean "rat's nest". As time went by, the island became known as 'Rottnest'.