Australia has plenty of cute animals that get attention. Koalas, kangaroos and quokkas are talked about all the time, but there’s a new creature that deserves the limelight.
That would be the little-known eastern bettong, a short-nosed marsupial, which until only recently had been extinct on the Australian mainland.
Once ubiquitous around the northern fringes of the city of Canberra, they were eradicated in the early-20th century thanks to introduced predators such as foxes and cats, as well as humans who saw them as a threat to agriculture. Luckily, there was still a population of eastern bettongs in the state of Tasmania. Read more…
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