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.

Over recent years, large bushfires in the southern regions, including the town of Northcliffe, took out a big chunk of the quokka habitat. Before the fire, the area was inhabited by at least 500 quokkas. The bushfire took the number down to only 39. Because of the fires, the animals fled to the edges of the burned out areas. Unfortunately, predators that had learned to stalk those areas were waiting for the animals foraging for food in the bush. The quokkas couldn't hide as they normally would, and so predators became a real threat. Some good news! Since the 2015 Northcliffe fire, the quokkas have returned, and there are now at least 300 of them across the north-west fire area.