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bilby

or ²ú¾±±ô·²ú¾±

[ bil-bee ]

noun

plural bilbies.


bilby

/ ˈ²úɪ±ô²úɪ /

noun

  1. a burrowing marsupial of the genus Macrotis of Australia having long pointed ears and grey fur Also calledrabbit bandicootdalgyte
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bilby1

First recorded in 1900–05; from Yuwaalaraay (an Australian Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales) bilbi
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Later, analysis of DNA from the wound confirms Moseby’s suspicions: This bilby, a threatened species, was slain by a domestic cat.

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In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the bettong, or rat kangaroo, the brush-tailed possum and other medium-sized mammals all disappeared from the Western Desert.

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Flowers in the Australian desert, a wilderness that is the last stronghold of many marsupial species, such as the bilby.

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After those have been erected, locally extinct mammals like the greater bilby, burrowing bettong, Western quoll, and Western barred bandicoot, will be reintroduced.

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The greater bilby, a ground-dwelling marsupial, handles the heat by going, well, down under.

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