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female Tasmanian Bettong foraging for food.
Photograph by unknown. License: GNU Free Documentation License.
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TASMANIAN BETTONG FACTS
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Description
The Tasmanian Bettong is brownish grey above with whitish underside.
Other Names
Eastern Bettong, Gaimards Bettong
Size
Head and body length about 32cm. Tail length also about 32cm.
Environment
dry forest with grass ground cover.
Food
Fungi, seeds, roots. Also eats insects.
Breeding
Makes nest of dry grass in bushes or under log. Gestation takes 21 days. The joey remains in pouch for about 105 days, and is fully weaned within 2 months of leaving pouch.
Range
Tasmania. Used to be found on mainland but now extinct there.
Conservation Status
The conservation status in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals is "lower risk/near threatened".
Classification
| Class: | Mammalia | | Order: | Diprotodontia | | Family: | Potoroidae | | Genus: | Bettongia | | Species: | gaimardi | | Common Name: | Tasmanian Bettong |
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