| Older classifications divide the bilbies and bandicoots into two families, Thylacomyidae and Peramelidae, respectively. |
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| Aborigines and white men alike hunted bilbies for their fur in earlier times. |
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| Well, introduced species have devastated species such as bilbies on the land, and we believe that the same sort of thing is happening in the sea. |
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| The first captive-bred bilbies were released into their new home at Currawinya National Park. |
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| If wildfires continue we will see the added disappearance of bilbies, mala, long-tailed dunnart and the Centralian rockrat from our rangelands. |
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| Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots. |
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| When we started, people didn't know what bilbies and boodies and bettons and numbats were, and now they do. |
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| Part of the proceeds from the sale of Easter bilbies go to the RFA's work to protect the environment from wild rabbits. |
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| Paisley had a gecko to release and we saw two bilbies and two burrowing bettongs. |
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| The Shark Bay project covered all aspects of conservation concerning bilbies, dugongs and other flora and fauna in the area. |
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| This marsupial family includes 4 genera and 10 species of bandicoots and bilbies. |
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| Australian chocolate manufacturers could not keep up with the demand for gift-wrapped chocolate Easter Bilbies. |
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| The diet of bandicoots and bilbies is made up mostly of insects, but they also eat lots of plant material, and sometimes also rodents and lizards. |
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| You can buy chocolate Easter Bilbies and toy Easter Bilbies. |
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| Marsupials include the kangaroo, the koala, the Tasmanian Devil, wallabies, bilbies, quolls, and the opossum. |
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| Dad-of-three Jason will play the guitar-strumming head of a family of bilbies, which look like large rabbits and live in the desert. |
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| Before English settlement, bilbies inhabited most of the Australian mainland. |
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| Environmentally it will create a 52 kilometre dead zone, the clearing of rare vine thickets and disturbance to natural habitat including bilbies. |
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| Ben is the bounciest of bilbies and Callum is the cuddliest cockatoo in the countryside. |
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| The bilbies are endangered, but are now making a comeback due to government protection. |
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| Around 40 bilbies and 15 possums have been released in Western Australia's biggest native fauna release project to restore wildlife and healthy ecosystems in the rangelands. |
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| Easter Bilby then provides each child with a story book of the forest experience, information sheets about bilbies and ways to support Save the Bilby Fund. |
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| The first animals to be released will be Bilbies, followed by Bush-tailed Bettongs and Numbats. |
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| The bilbies are part of an ongoing captive breeding and release program being carried out by the Monarto Zoological Park and the South Australian Bilby Recovery Team. |
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| Greater bilbies, nocturnal marsupials who hide in burrows during the day, are rabbit-like creatures with large ears that pick up sounds of insects. |
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