For the threatened and endangered native animals in breeding programs at the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary at Barrington Tops, New South Wales, the weekend’s unusually cold snap proved quite a curiosity. The sanctuary is home to Tasmanian devils, eastern quolls, parma wallabies, brush-tailed rock wallabies, long-nosed potoroos, rufous bettongs, southern brown bandicoots and Manning river turtles

Main image: A frosty look from an eastern quoll – an animal which is widespread in Tasmania but has been extinct on the Australian mainland since the 1960s. Recently they were released into the wild on the mainland, more than half a century after they were wiped out. Photograph: Lachlan Gilding/Aussie Ark