While everybody sounded pretty keen about saving the bilby at Currawinya, not everyone thinks large enclosures are a good idea. |
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The Easter bilby, not to be confused with the Easter bunny, scatters enough eggs so no one goes home empty-handed. |
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The video shows two-year-old Sultan nibbling and gnawing on Easter bilby chocolates and he soon gets quite frustrated with the wrapping. |
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Pete and Frank are two Aussies blokes who championed the endangered bilby, and four years ago, began a campaign to create a sanctuary. |
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Among the species being protected are the bilby, numbat and Gilbert's potoroo. |
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He was the focus of attention at Sydney's Taronga zoo over the weekend, meeting a bilby – a rabbit-like marsupial – named after him. |
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Haigh's celebrates the 20th anniversary of their Easter bilby this year. |
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Everyone abuzz about the bilby stamp, the latest stomach virus. |
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However, invasive species, such as red foxes, feral cats, and dingoes, are responsible for the bulk of bilby mortality. |
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The bilby is known for its long snout, blue-gray fur, white underbelly, and long, hairless ears that resemble those of rabbits. |
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Australia's equivalent to the rabbit, the bilby, was quickly pushed out by the rabbits. |
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Since the 1800s, habitat loss from land-use conversion and increased predation and competition stemming from species invasions have caused bilby populations to decline. |
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Before final insulation, the assemblages contain a wide range of terrestrial fauna including wallaby, bettong, possum, bandicoot, bilby, snake and lizard. |
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For each chocolate bilby sold during Easter, Coles Supermarkets donates 50 cents to the fund, administered by ACF and the Queensland Wildlife Preservation Society. |
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I knew this American site was great when I saw a special feature on the Easter Bilby. |
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The Anti-Rabbit Research Foundation of Australia wants everyone to say good riddance to the Easter Bunny and hello to the Easter Bilby. |
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It's an Outback Easter at the Workshops Rail Museum on the first Sunday of the holidays when The Easter Bilby and his wildlife friends come to visit. |
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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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Since the rabbit is a pest in Australia, the Easter Bilby is available as an alternative. |
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Studies have shown that the Greater Bilby is extinct and the Little Bilby is vulnerable, now living secretly in remote and semi-arid areas. |
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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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