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- noun Plural form of
bettong .
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Examples
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He glances at the stuffed kangaroos, wallabies and little potoroos and bettongs, the platypus and echidna, and a furry “sugar glider,” with webbing between its fore and hindfeet for sailing through the air, stuffed and suspended from wires as though in midflight, and gives even less attention to a gaudy array of dead beetles from around the world, before following the signs to the exhibit about the Tasmanian Aborigines.
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These include superbly preserved examples of the Australian Ice Age megafauna as well as a host of essentially modern species such as the Tasmanian Devil and Thylacine, wallabies, possums, bettongs, mice, bats, snakes, parrots, turtles, lizards and frogs.
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He glances at the stuffed kangaroos, wallabies and little potoroos and bettongs, the platypus and echidna, and a furry “sugar glider,” with webbing between its fore and hindfeet for sailing through the air, stuffed and suspended from wires as though in midflight, and gives even less attention to a gaudy array of dead beetles from around the world, before following the signs to the exhibit about the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009
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The rufous bettongs were out in force every night, and the white-winged choughs flew down to keep an eye on us wherever we worked.
Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007
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The rufous bettongs were out in force every night, and the white-winged choughs flew down to keep an eye on us wherever we worked.
Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007
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The Holts also have a captive-breeding permit for brush-tailed bettongs, which are endangered marsupials.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The Holts also have a captive-breeding permit for brush-tailed bettongs, which are endangered marsupials.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Along with many species of quolls, bandicoots, possums and marsupial rats, the bettongs had thrived for millions of years in northern Australia, surviving ice ages, surging sea levels and human hunters.
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The Holts also have a captive-breeding permit for brush-tailed bettongs, which are endangered marsupials.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The Holts also have a captive-breeding permit for brush-tailed bettongs, which are endangered marsupials.
The Seattle Times 2010
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