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pademelon

NOUN
  1. small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea

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  • The dusky pademelon is the only macropodid (kangaroo) found in the Banda Sea islands (Kai), although it is also found in the Aru Islands and the Trans Fly of New Guinea. Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests
  • It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia.
  • Red-legged pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica), Australia. Queensland tropical rain forests
  • It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
  • These tours provide many visitors with their first sight of native species such as the potoroos; their larger cousins, the pademelons and the brush-tailed bettongs or woylies; and the pointy-nosed bandicoots.
  • The term pademelon varies regionally in its application but may be taken to be a small wallaby. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
  •     Her mate would normally have done the hunting then, bringing whole birds or a pademelon or the bloody haunch of a kangaroo to the lair. Hunting the Thylacine
  • The Tasmanian pademelon was once found on mainland Australia but was eradicated due to loss of habitat and overhunting for meat and pelts. Tasmanian temperate rain forests
  • These forms include the tree-kangaroos (genus Dendrolagus), which are excellent climbers; pademelons (genus Thylogale), which often walk with a quadrupedal gait; and the relatively short-tailed quokkas (genus Setonix).
  • At dusk pademelons and wallabies come out while sugar gliders float through the forest canopy.
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