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n. - Bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit.

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  • It's the bilby, which is an endangered marsupial that lives in the desert.
  • The bilby is the Central Australian bunny.
  • The park protects important habitat for an isolated population of the vulnerable bilby (Macrotis lagotis).
  • They fill the same ecological niche as the bunny, only the bunny is better at it, and so since the introduction of the bunny to Australia, bilby numbers have dropped...
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