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potoroo
a rat kangaroo in the genus Potorous. The most primitive and smallest of the kangaroos, they gallop instead of hopping, are the size of a rat, and one of the species has a long, pointed, ratlike snout. There is also a broad-faced species. Called also kangaroo rat.
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Wombats, quolls, potoroos, little penguins, giant lobsters and pademelons all populate the pages of this eco-adventure with Brooklyn nature writers Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, but it's the elusive, thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) they track that is at the mysterious center of it all.
Tiger tracks by Belli, Brita / E
How could I not be content here on this farmland in my isolation, with birds and bees and trees unlimited and all the wonderful annoyances such as potoroos and possums devouring any of my unprotected fruit and vegies?
BACK INTO THE WOODS by ROBERTS, BARNEY / Arena Magazine
`In contrast, potoroos, bettongs and other "rat kangaroos" have an enlarged stomach, full of the necessary bacteria.
Fungi, fast food of the forest by Bennett, Bryony / Ecos
 
 
 
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