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– A hairless pink rim appears around the eye. The weight range is from 2.5 to 3.5 kilograms.

– Rufous bettongs usually emerge shortly after dark to forage and primarily eat herbs, roots, tubers and fungi. They can cover up to 2km – 4.5km a night when foraging. The rufous bettong is a solitary species that shelters during the day in «nests’, shallow excavations with a dome of fibrous vegetation across the top and a single entrance.

– Rat kangaroo, any of the 11 living species of Australian and Tasmanian marsupials constituting the families Potoroidae and Hypsiprymnodontidae, related to the kangaroo family, Macropodidae.