To distinguish them from the marsupials and the placental mammals the monotremes are placed in their own class, the prototheria. |
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Dr Evans this week issued guidelines to locals living in the bush capital on how to steer clear of an attack by the cuddly looking marsupials. |
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It became home to a unique zoo of hoofed mammals, edentates, marsupials, and more giant flightless birds. |
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This laconic roller of his own cigarettes was an authority on Australian marsupials, especially the kangaroos. |
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The absence of homology between sex chromosomes in marsupials strongly influences their behaviour during male meiosis. |
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Molar polymorphism is probably a primitive mammalian character, conserved in marsupials and mustelids. |
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The angular process of the dentary is inflected medially in almost all marsupials. |
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The most ferocious biters among mammals aren't lions, tigers, or wolves, but meat-eating marsupials, a new study says. |
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Proteins in the milk of Australia's marsupials may hold secrets to fighting off deadly pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant staph. |
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At night, take a torch and you can get within yards of marsupials, including the faintly horrid Tasmanian devil. |
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Most drumming mammals are rodents, but drumming has also been described in carnivores, deer, rabbits, elephant shrews and marsupials. |
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Others later compared it to the sound of a kangaroo, or marsupials such as quolls. |
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This order of marsupials includes 2 families, the Peramelidae and Peroryctidae. |
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Phalangers, more commonly known as possums and cuscuses, are marsupials but with a vague resemblance to some monkeys. |
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He looks after the land as a private reserve for wildlife habitat, running marsupials and their predators instead of cows. |
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Foxes as predators prey on lambs and chickens and kill native small marsupials and rodents. |
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The embryo forms an allantoic placenta, as is true of at least some peramelids and koalas but not other marsupials. |
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More than 20 Eucalyptus species provide sustenance for koalas, but in any given region, the marsupials eat only a few species. |
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In some species of marsupials, females develop a pouch or marsupium in which the young are nursed. |
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The invasive species kill birds, small marsupials, amphibians, lizards, and snakes. |
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The diprotodonts, with ten families including 117 species, make up the largest order of marsupials. |
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The primary difference is that the young are not raised in a special pouch, as in marsupials. |
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The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals. |
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The DNA will also be used to establish evolutionary links to modern marsupials in Australia today. |
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Koalas are Australia's best known tree-dwelling marsupials, coming to the ground only to move from one tree to the next. |
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For unknown reasons, Australia was apparently originally populated entirely by marsupials rather than placental mammals. |
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In South America and Australia, however, marsupials continued to be an important group of land mammals. |
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Koalas are unusual among marsupials in that they briefly form a placenta during the gestation of their embryos. |
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They are marsupials, which just describes the fact that they carry their young in a pouch. |
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Their well-developed pouches open anteriorly, like those of most other marsupials. |
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Unlike other marsupials, the Tasmanian wolf's pouch was shallow and opened towards the rear of the animal. |
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These small to medium-sized marsupials all have a dark dorsal stripe that runs from the rump to the head. |
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Thus, relative to the primitive therian condition, marsupials have a distinctive, derived pattern of reduced dental replacement. |
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Wroe's team recognized that for marsupials brain size could be used to estimate overall body weight. |
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I had expected to find kangaroos, platypus and the various other marsupials. |
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However, the many lineages of gliding animals today, including a host of lizards, squirrels, marsupials, and colugos show no signs of turning into flappers anytime soon. |
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Split of therians into placentals and marsupials happens at this time. |
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A wide variety of birds, lizards and marsupials are depicted, including kangaroos, wallabies, goannas, leaf-tail geckoes and many other animals from the region. |
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The relationships of picrodontids were long a matter of uncertainty, with early workers allying these peculiar mammals with marsupials, bats, insectivorans, or dermopterans. |
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Australia once had many marsupials much larger than those remaining today. |
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During his career of nearly six decades, he published over 600 papers and more than a dozen books, on subjects ranging from Australian marsupials to gorillas. |
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Species were selected to include the full range of pedal diversity in syndactylous marsupials. |
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Some marsupials have a pouchlike structure or fold, the marsupium, that shelters the suckling young. |
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It is a mammal and a macropod, a family of marsupials that includes wallabies and pademelons. |
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This work shows that five marsupials, two hedgehogs, a shrew, a mole, four mongoose, a raccoon, two mtistelids, and 15 rodents have some form of resistance to venom toxins. |
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Carnivores, marsupials, monotremes, and cetaceans do not have seminal vesicles. |
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Wildlife includes many reptiles and such marsupials as the tree kangaroo and phalanger. |
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Common marsupials include various kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, and wombats. |
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Animal life includes marsupials, crocodiles, cockatoos, pigeons, doves, deer, monkeys, and snakes. |
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Taste wine in Coonawarra and see the fossils of giant marsupials in World heritage-listed Naracoorte Caves. |
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Primates aren't the only ones to have flat nails, some marsupials also have them. |
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Australia's oldest koala sanctuary boasts the largest collection of these cute marsupials, along with other such photogenic wildlife. |
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These small kangaroos belong to the order of marsupials and are relative to the prairies and forests of Tasmania and southeast Australia. |
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The potoroids are a family of diprotodont marsupials believed to be closely allied with the kangaroos and wallabies and sometimes grouped as a subfamily within that family. |
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When I was a child I can remember I had kangaroo rats, wallabies, wallaroos, brush wallabies, all different marsupials as pets, and they were really very, very interesting. |
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The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil. |
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Macropodine marsupials offer unique insights into current theories expositing centromere emergence during karyotypic diversification and speciation. |
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Extensive mapping of the Y chromosome in the tammar wallaby had shown that the origin of the Y predated the divergence of marsupials from eutherian mammals. |
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Bilbies, or rabbit eared bandicoots, are attractive little marsupials with long rabbit-like ears and beautiful silky blue-grey fur and long well furred tails. |
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Molecular evidence now suggests that the marsupials and the monotremes branched off much earlier than the placentals did and that they are therefore the closer relatives. |
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We are familiar with the monotremes, marsupials and placentals of today, but there were also other kinds, such as multituberculates, which are now extinct. |
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There are three extant groups of mammals, namely, monotremes, marsupials and placentals. |
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Since European settlement of New Zealand began, over 80 species of alien vertebrates have been introduced, including three species of rodents, three mustelids, six marsupials and seven deer species. |
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Listen for the call of the rare Albert's Lyrebird, picnic amongst Antarctic beech forest, spot native marsupials or take a scenic rainforest drive. |
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So, to give a familiar example, a major distinction between a marsupial animal like a kangaroo or a koala, and other mammals, is that marsupials have a pouch in which infants spend part of their early life. |
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We have more mammals than anywhere else on earth and plenty of marsupials, from carnivorous Tasmanian devils to short-legged possums, sleepy koalas to powerful kangaroos. |
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The themed Australis house provides an insight into the unique reproductive strategies of a whole host of marsupials, birds, insects, spiders, reptiles and amphibians. |
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The age-old notion that marsupials are competitively inferior to placentals does not hold water. |
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The marsupials and the small artiodactyl, Leptomeryx, are the only portions of the fauna which have been studied in detail. |
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Larger mammals occurred in low frequencies and included young lagomorphs, caviomorphs, and marsupials. |
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A narrow pelvic outlet indicates that the young were very small at birth and therefore pregnancy was short, as in modern marsupials. |
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Placental mammals have a corpus callosum, unlike monotremes and marsupials. |
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The marsupials remained the dominant Australian mammals, with herbivore forms including wombats and kangaroos, and the huge Diprotodon. |
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Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials. |
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All marsupials, including but not limited to, Tasmanian devil, bandicoot, kangaroo, wallaby, opossum, wombat, koala bear, cuscus, numbat and pigmy, sugar and greater glider. |
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The contribution of fungus to the diets of three mycophagous marsupials in eucalyptus forests, revealed by stable isotope analysis. |
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Australian soldiers are to kill 15,000 kangaroos to stop a rural army base being overgrazed by the marsupials. |
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As well as understanding the unusual biological characteristics of these marsupials, the study reveals that the tammar kangaroo shares a gene with humans the scientists involved did not know humans had. |
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Besides the snakes, native mice, small marsupials and various goannas the team find each day, there is one species that Parkhurst is particularly keen to understand and protect. |
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Unlike those of other arboreal marsupials, its pouch opens rearward. |
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However, since South American marsupials had fewer retroposon updates, they are the older branches of the marsupial tree. |
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Driving north from Coonawarra, visit the World heritage-listed Naracoorte Caves National Park, where the 26 limestone caves house the fossilised skeletons of giant marsupials. |
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Absent in monotremes, marsupials, carnivores, cetaceans, and in some insectivores, chiropterans, and primates, seminal vesicles are exceptionally large in rhesus monkeys and small in man. |
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Dispersed among them are marsupials and birds. |
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Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart. |
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However, some fish have relatively large brains, most notably mormyrids and sharks, which have brains about as massive relative to body weight as birds and marsupials. |
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Brett Howland, a researcher from ANU, said that the large number of the marsupials could affect and destroy the habitats of the striped legless lizards. |
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Although marsupials are the most prominent mammals in Australia, many rodents, all belonging to the subfamily Murinae, are among the continent's mammal species. |
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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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Nocturnal marsupials, such as cuscus and bandicoots, make up the majority of the mammal species, and introduced mammals include Malayan civets and wild pigs. |
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The woylie belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the woylie are different species of bettong. |
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