Editing Quoll (section)

==Behaviour==
Quolls are [[carnivore|carnivorous]] [[marsupial]]s. They are primarily [[nocturnal]], sleeping in hollowed-out logs or rocky dens and coming out to hunt during the night, though on rare occasions they can be seen looking for prey during the day.[[File:Spotted-tail quoll sleeping at Sydney Wildlife World.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Photograph|Spotted-tailed quoll sleeping at [[Sydney Wildlife World]]]]

They are mostly ground-dwelling, but it is not uncommon to see a quoll climbing a tree. Quolls [[territorial marking|mark their territory]] several kilometres away from their dens. A male's territory often overlaps many females' territories, and male and female quolls only meet for mating.<ref name="ADW">{{cite web |title=Dasyurus geoffroii |publisher=University of Michigan Museum of Zoology |author=York Fei Leung |url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Dasyurus_geoffroii.html |access-date=31 October 2011}}</ref> Some quolls use communal [[Animal latrine|latrines]], usually on an outcropping used for marking territory and social functions, which may have up to 100&nbsp;droppings in them.<ref name ="Mammalian Species">{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Menna E. |last2=Rose |first2=Robert K. |last3=Burnett |first3=Scott |year=2001 |title=Dasyurus maculatus |journal=Mammalian Species |issue=676 |pages=1–9 |url=http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/676_Dasyurus_maculatus.pdf |access-date=25 October 2011 |doi=10.1644/1545-1410(2001)676<0001:DM>2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=198968522 }}</ref> Quolls are mostly solitary, limiting contact with other quolls to mating or other social activities.<ref name="NPA">{{cite web |title=Eastern Quoll |publisher=Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment |url=http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/wildlife-management/fauna-of-tasmania/mammals/carnivorous-marsupials-and-bandicoots/eastern-quoll |access-date=9 March 2018 |archive-date=21 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021180818/https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/wildlife-management/fauna-of-tasmania/mammals/carnivorous-marsupials-and-bandicoots/eastern-quoll |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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