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	Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Numbat is a small 35-45 cm (1/2 body 1/2 tail approximately) animal with a reddish brown coat banded with white stripes (6 or 7), and a paler underbelly.
		Numbats have a pointed snout, short ears and fl stripes, which run from mid snout to the base of their ear, which passes through the eye, on a delicate tapering head.
		Numbats use their long snouts to "snuffle" the ground in search of food, and then they use their front feet to dig for the termites in the soil and extract them with their long, sticky tongue.
	www.home.no /australiaweb/Numbat.html (252 words)

	Numbat - BIRD
		Numbats synchronise their day with termite activity, which is temperature dependent; in winter they feed from mid-morning to mid-afternoon; in summer they rise earlier, take shelter during the heat of the day, and feed again in the late afternoon.
		At night, Numbats retreat to a nest, which can be in a hollow log or tree, or in a burrow, typically a narrow shaft one or two metres long which terminates in a spherical chamber, lined with soft plant material: grass, leaves, flowers, and shredded bark.
		Adult Numbats are solitary and territorial; an individual of either sex establishes a territory early in life, defends it from others of the same sex, and generally remains within it from that time on; male and female territories overlap, and in the breeding season males will venture outside their normal home range to find mates.
	bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Numbat (939 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The characteristic coloring of a numbat is reddish brown coat which blends from darker shades on the back to light on the stomach.
		The entire population of the numbat used to spread across southern Australia, but now, due to forest destruction and predation of animals such as foxes and cats, the marvelous marsupial can only be found in small pathes of forest in West Australia's southwest.
		Numbats are not strong enough to break into the termites' home, so it just lives by the schedule of the termite.
	www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us /hhs/endspeci/Mammals/numbat.htm (428 words)

	Animal Info - Numbat
		Numbats usually shelter in fallen hollow logs or dead tree trunks and sometimes in burrows.
		Reasons for the numbat's decline include introduced predators such as foxes and the clearing of land for agriculture, which eliminates dead and fallen trees which can be used for shelter and from which termites can be obtained.
		The numbat formerly occurred in semi-arid and arid woodlands (Eucalyptus and Acacia) and grasslands.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/myrmfasc.htm (772 words)

	Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Numbat is a marsupial because of the stage its young are born, however it has no pouch.
		As the young Numbats develop and become too large to be carried, the female will dig a burrow for them whilst she searches for food.
		Numbats, along with Echidnas, are unusual in that they live on a pure termite diet.
	fly-away.netfirms.com /numbat.htm (229 words)

	numbat - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NUMBAT [numbat], small marsupial, of SW Australia, also known as the marsupial anteater.
		Like other marsupials, numbats give birth to very undeveloped young, which crawl to the mother's teats and remain attached to them for several months; unlike most marsupials, however, numbats do not have pouches surrounding the teats.
		Numbats are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Marsupialia, family Dasyuridae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-numbat.html (238 words)

	Education Fact Sheets Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Numbats normally live in eucalyptus forests and woodlands with a grassy understorey.
		The Numbat has around 50 teeth, a high number for a marsupial, but only uses them when it is young.
		This policy produced by the education group is a formulation of principles, guidelines and minimum standards for education for the many different sectors involved in zoos, parks and aquaria.
	www.arazpa.org.au /Education_FactSheets_Numbat.htm (507 words)

	Plants & Animals: Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Only a few years ago numbats were critically endangered, but CALM researchers have established new populations and given greater protection to existing populations by baiting for foxes.
		Numbats are active during the day, and in the few areas where they are found, these delightful creatures are now seen more often.
		Numbats have a narrow, pointed snout, used to extract termites from the soil, and a dark stripe across their eyes.
	www.calm.wa.gov.au /plants_animals/mammal_numbat.html (556 words)

	Numbat
		The insects stick to the numbat's tongue and are taken into the mouth.
		The numbat's body is about 24 cm long, and it has a brushy tail about 17 cm long.
		The numbat is unusual because it is a marsupial without a pouch.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/Numbat.htm (209 words)

	Numbat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Numbat is a small, colourful, highly photogenic creature between 20 and a little under 30 cm long, with a finely pointed muzzle and a prominent, bushy tail about the same length as its body.
		The Numbat has the appropriate type of tongue and, like other mammals that eat termites, a degenerate jaw with non-functional teeth, but it does not have especially strong forelimbs or particularly large claws, and is in any case too small to make much impression on a termite mound.
		Until European colonisation, the Numbat was found across most of the area from the New South Wales and Victorian borders west to the Indian Ocean, and as far north as the southwest corner of the Northern Territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Numbat (973 words)

	Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Numbats are ground dwelling anteaters, although they may climb trees if the need arises.
		Numbats once ranged widely throughout Western and Southern Australia, but are now confined to a few small populations in the south-west of Western Australia.
		Numbats are the only marsupials in the world which feed exclusively on termites.
	www.westernwildlife.com.au /western/mammals/numbat.htm (625 words)

	endangered animals - introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Numbats are mostly a reddish brown colour with a fl horizontal stripe running through their eyes.
		The length of the adult numbat is about 20 to 25cm long and their tail length is about 15 to 18cm long.
		Numbats have a small flat head with a long nose, pointed ears and have around 50 to 52 small teeth.
	www.tenan.vuurwerk.nl /reports/frenchvi/numbat.htm (327 words)

	Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Numbat is the mammal emblem of Western Australia.
		Another of the Numbat's notable features is that it is one of the few diurnal (active during the day) marsupials.
		Numbats are now breed in sufficient numbers to allow some introductions into protected wild habitats.
	www.edsite.com.au /perthzoo/numbat.html (706 words)

	Numbat - Myrmecobius fasciatus: More Information - ARKive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Indeed it is difficult to mistake the numbat for anything else because of its distinctive appearance and because no other mammals of their size are active during the day (5).
		The numbat’s populations have dramatically suffered from predation by introduced mammals such as the red fox, and the clearing of the land for agriculture.
		The numbat is western Australia’s mammal emblem, a status which gives it widespread recognition and may well have saved it from extinction (5).
	arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Myrmecobius_fasciatus/more_info.html (1040 words)

	Numbat Conspiracy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		numbats, (Myrmecobius fasciatus) for the uninitiated one are really cute marsupials with a really big long tongues, about the size of a small kitten.
		since the introduction of cats, foxes and even rats, they have become very rare, which was very sad for the good people of western australia, cos the numbat is our fauna emblem.
		i think even the minster got into the act and these happy little numbats were taken to a very special place in the south west and put into their new homes and were so happy the skipped and froliked and did their special little numbat jumps.
	www.numbatconspiracy.com /moodle (496 words)

	Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Online Education Resource
		The numbat's better-known relatives are the kangaroos and koalas.
		Instead, the young are born very premature and must continue their development attached to a teat outside the mother's body (usually inside a pouch of belly skin, as in kangaroos).
		Numbats do not have a pouch, so the young, born blind and hairless, must simply cling to the belly fur of their mother while they grow.
	www.bagheera.com /inthewild/van_anim_numbat.htm (531 words)

	UNEP-WCMC - Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These vegetation types provide the Numbat with hollow logs and branches for its shelter and provide food and support for the termites that it eats.
		Numbats have proved difficult to breed in captivity, most of the animals released into other areas have come from wild populations.
		Numbats now occur in areas secure from clearing, mostly in state forests and nature reserves.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /species/data/species_sheets/numbat.htm (462 words)

	Numbat
		Numbats (also known as Walpurti) are small marsupials, which feed almost solely on termites.
		Numbats are one of the few marsupials who are active during the day.
		Numbats were critically endangered a few years ago, but populations have now increased.
	www.australianfauna.com /numbat.php (257 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for numbat
		numbat NUMBAT [numbat], small marsupial, of SW Australia, also known as the marsupial anteater.
		The numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus, resembles a squirrel in size and general appearance, but is adapted for eating insects, with a pointed snout and a long, cylindrical tongue covered with a sticky secretion.
		With the exception of the New World opossums and an obscure S American family (Caenolestidae), marsupials are now found only in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and a few adjacent islands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=numbat (204 words)

	Numbat
		Numbat is always prepared to stick his long tongue into termite wood in search of his food.
		The calm little Numbat gathers leaves to make himself a bed in the nearest hollow log when it is time to rest.
		If Numbat has leaped around you, you are obviously prepared to talk your talk and walk your walk.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/innerwisdom/numbat.html (181 words)

	CentralPets.com - Numbat Page (Printer Friendly Version)
		Numbats range between 35 and 45 centimeters in length, and about half of this is comprised of the bottlebrush tail.
		Numbats have a very small home range, and are found only in the Wandoo and Jarrah areas of western Australia where they prefer wooded areas.
		Around six months of age, the young Numbats may be left alone in a burrow or sheltered area while the mother Numbat scavenges food, and they may also ride on her back until they are around ten months of age.
	centralpets.com /phpscripts/PrintFriendly.php?AnimalNumber=4438 (512 words)

	Nature Feature - Numbat
		The Numbat, also known as the Banded Anteater and, in the Western Desert, the Walpurti, is red-brown in colour on its upper body and paler below with a rump which is is darker than the upper back and contains prominant white transverse bars.
		The head is narrow with a sharp snout and a dark horizontal eye-stripe.
		The Numbat is the only member of the family Myrmecobiidae and the only marsupial adapted to feeding exclusively on colonial insects.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/feature/nature/numbat.htm (994 words)

	Numbat Mine Reconnaissance Vehicle
		The Numbat is a remotely controlled vehicle that is used to provide information following an emergency in an underground coal mine.
		The size of the vehicle (2.5x1.65m) is largely dictated by the size of the obstacles it is intended to negotiate.
		The communications link is used to remotely control the Numbat as well as provide telemetry data, video and audio information to the surface.
	www.dem.csiro.au /mining_automation/research/projects/numbat (710 words)

	Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a marsupial, the numbat is unusual, since, unlike other marsupials, it has no pouch and is active during the day and not at night.
		It is now known that the numbat lives, at least for part of the year, in a family group.
		The numbat is born hairless, and only after a couple of months does it acquire hair and its stripes.
	users.tpg.com.au /users/resolve/endangeredspecies/numbat.html (586 words)

	Numbat
		The Name "Numbat": Most of the names for the animals of Australia are derived from the Aborigine languages.
		Description: The numbat is a squirrel-sized animal with a long pointed snout and long bushy tail.
		The numbat is methodical in its search for termites which, once located, it digs out quickly.
	www.americazoo.com /goto/index/mammals/11.htm (297 words)

	ESL - Numbat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Numbat is a small striped marsupial whose whole diet consists of termites.
		As part of an ongoing breeding program, 15 Numbats were relocated from Dryandra Forest, (Western Australia), to Yookamurra Earth Sanctuary (South Australia) in 1993.
		Numbats are one of the only diurnal marsupials in Australia (along with the Musky Rat-kangaroo), and one of the only colonial insect eating animals in Australia (Echidnas also feed on ants and termites).
	www.esl.com.au /numbat.htm (607 words)

	numbat Home Page - VirtualTourist.com
		Numbats or banded Anteaters are pouchless marsupials and are now mainly found in Western Australia.
		Numbats are most active during the day time hours and retreat to hollow logs for protection from preditors at night.
		Numbats are about 40cms long from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/30071 (688 words)

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