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. |