Later research has identified her as an Agile Antechinus native to the south eastern Victorian coastal area and not to be confused with almost identical brown antichinus that lives in the southern NSW coast, and various other varieties described by the Museum Victoria
While she was not terribly agile when we saw her, we are reliably informed by Wikipedia that she prefers to eat beetles spiders and cockroaches, choosing fruit only when these are scarce. Perhaps her first name has been given because the agile antechinus has a short and violent breeding season, after which the males all die, and the female gives birth after 27 days.
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