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What is a bettong?

What is a bettong? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.
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A program in northern NSW is helping to save the endangered rufous bettong, a macropod that plays an important part in forest ecosystems.
Before final insulation, the assemblages contain a wide range of terrestrial fauna including wallaby, bettong, possum, bandicoot, bilby, snake and lizard.
The winery has a wetland centre in South Australia where it is also intended to release brush-tailed bettong and numbats later in the year.
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.
A related species, the burrowing bettong, will scavenge sheep carcasses.
Though chiefly a root and fungus eater, today's rufous bettong is in fact frequently observed to chew on animal bones.

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