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	Brush-tailed Bettong
		Bettongs feed mainly on roots, tubers and legume pods, but there are reports of them feeding on carrion, meat and marine refuse.
		The bettong’s tail is somewhat prehensile and is used to carry nesting material.
		The bettong constructs a nest of grass or sticks and bark.
	www.lpzoo.com /tour/factsheets/mammals/bettong.html

	Animal Info - Brush-tailed Bettong
		The brush-tailed bettong formerly ranged from Shark Bay in Western Australia south and east, covering all of southwest Western Australia, most of South Australia except the far southeast and northeast portions of the state, the northwest corner of Victoria and across the central portion of New South Wales, almost to the Queensland border.
		The brush-tailed bettong formerly ranged over all of southwest Western Australia, most of South Australia, the northwest corner of Victoria and across the central portion of New South Wales.
		In common with many other kangaroos, the brush-tailed bettong mates shortly after giving birth and can keep embryos in embryonic diapause until they are needed.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/bettpeni.htm

	South Australia: Case Study Bushcare Projects: Habitat Restoration for the Brush-tailed Bettong - Venus Bay
		There are also a number of monitoring sites established to measure changes in Brush-tailed Bettong numbers, weed cover and pest numbers and regeneration and revegetation success.
		In addition they have been released at Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula as part of the reintroduction program of Brush-tailed Bettongs to mainland South Australia.
		The Brush-tailed Bettong is listed as Rare in South Australia.
	www.nht.gov.au /nht1/programs/bushcare/saproj.html

	Brush-Tailed Bettong - BREEDING
		As is common with many other kangaroos, the Brush-Tailed Bettong mates very shortly after giving birth, and stores the embryos until they are needed.
		The Brush-tailed Bettongs breed right throughout the year.
		Their maximum age in captivity is approximately 8 years and 9 months.
	www.psbeonline.com /demos/btb/Breeding.htm

	Threatened Species - Brush-tailed Bettong
		With the successful de-listing of the species from State and Commonwealth Threatened Species Schedules, the focus of Brush-tailed Bettong recovery in South Australia has now become the trial reintroduction of the species to areas of its former range that are not geographical isolates.
		Bettongs favouring taller shrublands over grassy areas, low shrubland and mutton bird burrow sites.
		The successful establishment of bettong populations in South Australia, coupled with similar successes experienced in Western Australia, resulted in the species being down listed from Endangered to Lower Risk (conservation dependent) in 1996.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/bettong.html

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	Brush-Tailed Bettong - HABITAT
		The Brush-tailed Bettongs have adapted well to their habitats that are subject to frequent fires.
		The Brush-tailed bettong lives mainly in semi-arid scrubland and grassland in South Australia.
		They build a nest of grass or sticks and bark, usually located at the base of an overhanging bush.
	psbeonline.com /demos/btb/Habitat.htm

	Woylie, or Brush-tailed Bettong
		The woylie is also known as the brush-tailed bettong.
		Its tail is able to curl around nesting material so that it can carry it.The habitat of the woylie is forests of southwestern Western Australia and South Australia.
		Its tail can carry grass for its nest.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/woylie.htm

	Answers about Kangaroos - ChristianAnswers.Net
		This remarkable phenomenon occurs in the red kangaroo, the eastern grey kangaroo, the common wallaroo (euro), the brush-tailed bettong, and several of the larger wallabies.
		In between are the tree kangaroos (a specialized group comprising nine species that live and move about in the trees), and those commonly called wallabies.
		In some species, a doe [the female] is able to delay the development of a fertilized egg inside her until an older joey dies or vacates the pouch.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-aig/aig-kangaroos.html

	Short-Eared Rock Wallaby
		Burrowing Bettong to Black-flanked Rock Wallaby : Onychogalea unguifera.
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/S/Short-Eared_Rock_Wallaby.shtml

	Featherdale Wildlife Park - About Featherdale - Brush-tailed Bettong
		Featherdale Wildlife Park - About Featherdale - Brush-tailed Bettong
		The Bushtailed Bettong has felt the full force of the introduction to Australia of the feral fox and cats.
		Breeding: Breeding is continuous, a single young is born and remains in the pouch for 90 days.
	www.featherdale.com.au /featherdale/featherdale.ns4/Animals/Brush-tailed+Bettong

	Brush-tailed Bettong - Wiktionary
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	South Lakes Wild Animal Park - Brush Tailed Bettong
		South Lakes Wild Animal Park - Brush Tailed Bettong
		This animal is now being bred in captivity and slowly being re-introduced back into its natural home of Western Australia after feral animal culling programmes.
		Welcome To South Lakes Wild Animal Park, the UK's unique open zoo
	www.wildanimalpark.co.uk /animals/australia/bettong.htm

	International Zoo News No. 294
		Future introductions are planned for greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii), koala (Phascolarctus cinereus) and burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur).
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		Adults and cubs older than 80 days were given ox tails weekly.
	www.zoonews.ws /IZN/294/IZN-294.html

	Brush-tailed Bettong Population Monitoring
		Database contains results of Brush-tailed Bettong (Bettongici penicillata ogilby) population monitoring exercises on Bird Club Island, Venus Bay Island A, Baird Bay Island, St Francis Island, St Peter Island, Wedge Island, and Venus Bay Peninsula.
		The data is used to monitor the status of each population of this once endangered species, for assessing the current progress of recovery actions in relation to the species recovery plan.
		Note: this dataset description is metadata (data about data) which describes the actual dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) Core Metadata Guidelines Version 1
	www.asdd.sa.gov.au /asdd/ANZSA1022000006.html

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	Nature Australia — Volume 24 Index
		GILMOUR, J. Earthwatch and Burrowing Bettongs [Letter] 12/7
		MILLAR, T. Zebra stripes and swatting tails [Letter] 9/7
	www.natureaustralia.net /indexes/volume24.htm

	Animal Info - Brush-tailed Bettong
		The brush-tailed bettong formerly ranged from Shark Bay in Western Australia south and east, covering all of southwest Western Australia, most of South Australia except the far southeast and northeast portions of the state, the northwest corner of Victoria and across the central portion of New South Wales, almost to the Queensland border.
		The brush-tailed bettong formerly ranged over all of southwest Western Australia, most of South Australia, the northwest corner of Victoria and across the central portion of New South Wales.
		In common with many other kangaroos, the brush-tailed bettong mates shortly after giving birth and can keep embryos in embryonic diapause until they are needed.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/bettpeni.htm

	Brush-tailed Bettong
		Brush-tailed Bettong populations in Western Australia are expanding where foxes have been reduced to low numbers.
		Once covering mainland Australia south of the tropics, the Brush-tailed Bettong's range contracted to a small area of southwestern Australia.
		The Brush-tailed Bettong has been re-established in South Australia on several islands that are free of foxes and cats.
	www.samuseum.sa.gov.au /extinctions/btbett.htm

	Education Fact Sheets Bettong
		The Brush-tailed Bettong�s fur is dense and long with a rich greyish-brown grading to a pale brown or white on its underparts.
		Since the Brush-tailed Bettong is a nocturnal animal it spends the daytime resting in its domed nest.
		Attempts have now been made to control these foxes in Western Australia and the Brush-tailed Bettong population there is increasing and spreading over a wider area.
	www.arazpa.org.au /Education_FactSheets_Bettong.htm

	Natural Heritage - The Journal of the Natural Heritage Trust (Number 9) - Children on a Mission to Protect the Brush-tailed Bettong
		The Natural Heritage Trust's Bushcare Program has provided more than $29,000 in the past three years to help restore a key area of natural habitat of the Brush-tailed Bettong so they can be released safely outside the fenced areas of South Australia's Venus Conversation Park where they are currently protected.
		The Brush-tailed Bettong is a small ground dwelling marsupial that was extremely common throughout South Australia at the time of European settlement.
		Due to threats from introduced predators such as foxes and feral cats, and the loss of natural vegetation, the hopping marsupial is now considered 'conservation dependent': without concerted intervention the Bettongs will become increasingly threatened.
	www.nht.gov.au /publications/journal/nht9/story5.html

	Brush tailed bettong
		During the day the Bettong rests in well made and hidden nests made of grass and shredded bark.
		The remaining habitat of this animal is open gum tree forests with lots old fall timber and clumps of grasses with some open areas as well as woody scrub areas.
		It’s body length is 300mm - 380 mm and it has a tail length of 290mm - 360mm, giving a total length of 590mm - 740mm.
	www.frenchviss.eq.edu.au /endangeredbrushtailedbettong.htm

	Threatened Species - Brush-tailed Bettong
		With the successful de-listing of the species from State and Commonwealth Threatened Species Schedules, the focus of Brush-tailed Bettong recovery in South Australia has now become the trial reintroduction of the species to areas of its former range that are not geographical isolates.
		Bettongs favouring taller shrublands over grassy areas, low shrubland and mutton bird burrow sites.
		The successful establishment of bettong populations in South Australia, coupled with similar successes experienced in Western Australia, resulted in the species being down listed from Endangered to Lower Risk (conservation dependent) in 1996.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/bettong.html

	Answers about Kangaroos - ChristianAnswers.Net
		This remarkable phenomenon occurs in the red kangaroo, the eastern grey kangaroo, the common wallaroo (euro), the brush-tailed bettong, and several of the larger wallabies.
		In some species, a doe [the female] is able to delay the development of a fertilized egg inside her until an older joey dies or vacates the pouch.
		In between are the tree kangaroos (a specialized group comprising nine species that live and move about in the trees), and those commonly called wallabies.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-aig/aig-kangaroos.html

	Woylie, or Brush-tailed Bettong
		The woylie is also known as the brush-tailed bettong.
		The others are the burrowing bettong (endangered), the rufous bettong, the Tasmanian bettong and the northern bettong.
		Its tail is able to curl around nesting material so that it can carry it.The habitat of the woylie is forests of southwestern Western Australia and South Australia.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/woylie.htm

	Rural Reporter - 1/6/2002: Bettong release � Fleur Bainger � Renmark SA
		Reporter Fleur Bainger heads out to Calperum Station, just south of Renmark, to witness the successful release of about forty brush-tailed bettongs into the bush.
		Bettong release � Fleur Bainger � Renmark SA In the Riverland region of South Australia the rehabilitation of an old sheep station has been so successful ecologists have been able to reintroduce native species to the area.
		Fleur, and the other volunteers, get some tips on how to release the small kangaroo-like animals from wildlife officer Sonia Domenelli
	www.abc.net.au /rural/reporter/stories/s569452.htm

	International Zoo News No. 294
		Breeding has already occurred in the bush stone-curlews, the brush-tailed bettongs and the bridled nail-tail wallabies.
		Future introductions are planned for greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii), koala (Phascolarctus cinereus) and burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur).
		When it could be determined that these animals were surviving and prospering within the specially designed boundary fence, introductions of endangered species commenced.
	www.zoonews.ws /IZN/294/IZN-294.html

	Answers about Kangaroos - ChristianAnswers.Net
		This remarkable phenomenon occurs in the red kangaroo, the eastern grey kangaroo, the common wallaroo (euro), the brush-tailed bettong, and several of the larger wallabies.
		At the other end of the scale from the six large types mentioned above are the rat/rabbit-sized bettongs, potoroos and rat-kangaroos.
		In some species, a doe [the female] is able to delay the development of a fertilized egg inside her until an older joey dies or vacates the pouch.
	christiananswers.net /q-aig/aig-kangaroos.html (1643 words)

	Bridled Nailtail Wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata. No.14
		The Victorian populations of the Western Barred Bandicoot and the Brush-tailed Bettong were different subspecies from the extant populations (Strahan 1988).
		The Tasmanian Bettong was probably extinct on the mainland by about 1900 (Johnson and Rose 1983).
		The extinct mainland form of the Tasmanian Bettong is recognised as the subspecies
	www.nre.vic.gov.au /dse/nrenpa.nsf/childdocs/-A59F5093F6D6511D4A2567D600824A61-730F433356FA4CE14A2567D600824A63-BB0E97E481BC427BCA256BB300271ACC-A76ADC0C5715A42D4A2567D600824A65-983B9D0D130A6B5F4A256DEA00246843-CB0E26237C71928B4A2567D200032E62?open (2081 words)

	Woylie, or Brush-tailed Bettong
		The woylie is also known as the brush-tailed bettong.
		The others are the burrowing bettong (endangered), the rufous bettong, the Tasmanian bettong and the northern bettong.
		Its tail is able to curl around nesting material so that it can carry it.The habitat of the woylie is forests of southwestern Western Australia and South Australia.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/woylie.htm (188 words)

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