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- noun Australia A species of
bettong , Bettongia penicillata.
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The python ate the woylie, which is a small mammal, in the wild at Narrogin, complete with transmitter, and was brought to the centre so the tracking device could be removed from the snake.
WICKED THOUGHTS 2009
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The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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A number of other species are largely restricted to the mesic southwest and found in this ecoregion: the yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes leucogaster), southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), and the woylie (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi).
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As a result, several species, including the woylie have been removed from threatened species lists, although they remain conservation dependent.
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Some animals are casually named - tsessebe, greater bilby, boodie, tuatara, woylie - as if every reader knows what they look like.
NYT > Travel 2009
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COLONIES of the woylie, a critically endangered kangaroo-like marsupial, will be protected inside a 400ha predator-proof enclosure.
bilby commented on the word woylie
Image search thankfully does not conjure a country and western singer.
October 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word woylie
AWWWWW!!
June 9, 2010
bilby commented on the word woylie
Willy the wily woylie royally wheeled a white-walled red-wheeled wheelbarrow really well.
August 25, 2022