Male eastern quolls are about the size of a small domestic cat 
averaging 60 cm in length and 1.3 kg in weight; females are smaller. 
They have thick, soft fur that is coloured fawn, brown or black. 
Small white spots cover the body except for the bushy tail 
which may have a white tip. 
 
When they are born they are the size of a grain of rice. 
They attach themselves to their mother's nipples to drink her milk. 
They go everywhere with her.  
After about 10 weeks the young are left in grass-lined dens located in 
burrows or hollow logs leaving the female free to hunt and forage. 
If the female needs to move to a different den she carries the young 
along on her back. 
When the young are 18 to 20 weeks old, they are weaned and 
become independent of the female

The eastern quoll is largely solitary.
Eastern quolls are nocturnal. 
During the day they sleep in nests made under rocks in 
underground burrows or fallen logs. 

It is a savage little hunter eating anything from grubs and insects, 
ground nesting birds, small mammals such as bandicoots, 
mice, rats and rabbits.
The carcasses of larger animals will be scavenged and quoll will also eat 
grasses and fruit such as blackberries. 

Cats, dogs and foxes kill quolls.
The biggest danger for quolls is land clearing. 
They need natural bushland with lots of hollow trees and logs 
for their homes.
Their home range varies from over a kilometre in a night for the male 
to only a few hundred metres around the den for the females.
 
The species is wholly protected by law.