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Lesser bilby

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The lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also known as the yallara, the lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, was a rabbit-like marsupial. [1]

36 relations: Acacia aneura, Animal, Ant, British Museum, Burrow, Cat, Central Australia, Chordate, Desert, Dune, Endemism, Extinction, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Greater bilby, Indigenous Australians, Lake Eyre basin, Macrotis, Mammal, Marsupial, Natural History Museum at Tring, Neontology, Nocturnality, Northern Territory, Oldfield Thomas, Omnivore, Peramelemorphia, Rabbit, Rabbits in Australia, Red fox, South Australia, Spinifex (genus), Termite, Triodia (grass), Wedge-tailed eagle, Zygochloa.

Acacia aneura

Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia, such as the Western Australian mulga shrublands.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Burrow

A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation, temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.

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Cat

The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.

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Central Australia

Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Dune

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Gibson Desert

The Gibson Desert, an interim Australian bioregion, is a large desert that covers a large dry area in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an almost "pristine" state.

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Great Sandy Desert

The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, data located in the North West of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions.

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Greater bilby

The greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), often referred to simply as the bilby since the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) became extinct in the 1950s, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the order Peramelemorphia.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Lake Eyre basin

The Lake Eyre basin is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia.

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Macrotis

Bilbies, or rabbit-bandicoots, Unabridged are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Natural History Museum at Tring

The Natural History Museum at Tring was the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild; today it is under the control of the Natural History Museum.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oldfield Thomas

Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist.

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Omnivore

Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.

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Peramelemorphia

The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies; it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).

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Rabbits in Australia

European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet and eventually became widespread.

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Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Spinifex (genus)

Spinifex is a genus of perennial coastal plants in the grass family.

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Termite

Termites are eusocial insects that are classified at the taxonomic rank of infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamily Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.

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Triodia (grass)

Triodia is a large genus of hummock-forming bunchgrass endemic to Australia.

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Wedge-tailed eagle

The wedge-tailed eagle or bunjil (Aquila audax) is the largest bird of prey in Australia, and is also found in southern New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.

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Zygochloa

Zygochloa is a genus of desert plants in the grass family known only from Australia.

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Lesser Bilby, Macrotis leucura.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_bilby

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