{"id":4732,"date":"2016-07-05T17:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/05\/the-eastern-bettong-is-an-adorable-aussie-animal-that-just-wants-your-love\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:14:54","slug":"the-eastern-bettong-is-an-adorable-aussie-animal-that-just-wants-your-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/05\/the-eastern-bettong-is-an-adorable-aussie-animal-that-just-wants-your-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The eastern bettong is an adorable Aussie animal that just wants your love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

That would be the little-known eastern bettong, a short-nosed marsupial, which until only recently had been extinct on the Australian mainland. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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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…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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