A program in northern NSW is helping to save the endangered rufous bettong, a macropod that plays an important part in forest ecosystems. |
The latter creature features a marsupial pouch containing two offspring, and the characteristically bent hind legs of a kangaroo or another member of the macropod family. |
It is a mammal and a macropod, a family of marsupials that includes wallabies and pademelons. |