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quokka
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quokka
a small, nocturnal wallaby (Setonyx brachyurus) which is especially sensitive to nutritional myopathy. Called also Rottnest quokka.


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GALLAGHER, Debbie Goannas and Water Monitors ISBN 9781420264890; Quokkas and Quolls ISBN 9781420264852; Tree-Kangaroos and Wallabies ISBN 9781420264883 Macmillan (Australian Animals), 2009 32pp $22.
Just a ferry ride from Freo, however, takes you to Rottnest Island, where the increasingly rare quokkas (a tiny kind of wallaby) hop freely.
They were interested in the quokkas of Rottnest Island, off Western Australia, because these small, wallaby-like marsupials have been virtually free of predation for about 7000 years.
 
 
 
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