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Brush-tailed Bettong
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Brush-tailed Bettong

Bettongia penicillata

The woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia ogilbyi) is a small, near threatened mammal native to forests and shrubland of Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and is active at night, digging for fungi to eat. It is also a marsupial and carries its young in a pouch. Once widespread across southern Australia, the woylie mostly died out from habitat loss and introduced predators such as foxes and feral cats. It...

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