I photographed the smile of the quokka.

我拍下了短尾矮袋鼠的笑容。

This quokka is not afraid of human contact at all.

这只短尾矮袋鼠一点都不怕人接触。

Quokka lives on small islands off the coast of western Australia.

短尾矮袋鼠生活在西澳海岸的一些小岛上。

It's called a quokka. It's the size of a cat, and it lives in Australia.

这只萌物叫短尾矮袋鼠，形如猫咪，居住在澳大利亚。

Meet the Quokka, a marsupial that seems to have come straight from an animator at Disney, but is actually native to a small corner of south western Australia.

短尾矮袋鼠是种有袋类哺乳动物，看起来就好像是迪士尼里的卡通形象一样，而它实际上是澳大利亚西南角一小块区域的一种特有动物。

Unlike a frightening number of Australian animals, the Quokka poses no threat to humans, and — as these pictures make abundantly clear — can be quite friendly.

在澳大利亚，能对人类构成威胁的动物多得可怕，但短尾矮袋鼠却不具有威胁力，而且，正如照片里看起来的那样，它们非常友好。

That friendliness may partially explain why, according to the Perth Zoo, the once-plentiful Quokka was drastically reduced in number after the dingo and foxes found their way to Australia.

根据澳大利亚珀斯动物园的说法，正是因为它们很友好，也在一定程度上可以解释了：为什么在澳洲野狗和狐狸来到澳大利亚后，一度众多的短尾矮袋鼠数量急剧下降。