bilby

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It's the bilby, which is an endangered marsupial that lives in the desert.

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  • Rabbits also threaten some of our native burrowing animals, such as the bilby and the burrowing bettong, by moving into their existing burrows and competing for food.
  • It's the bilby, which is an endangered marsupial that lives in the desert. —  BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content
  • Instead, the nation uses the Easter holiday to celebrate one of its most endemic, and most endangered species, the greater bilby ( —  Scientific American
  • Easter bilby, "Australia's Environmental Minister Peter Garrett, former frontman for the band Midnight Oil, recently told schoolchildren. —  Scientific American
  • Another bilby species, the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura in the 1950s. —  Scientific American
 

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