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The rufous rat-kangaroo or rufous bettong (Aepyprymnus rufescens) is a small, jumping, rat-like marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the only species in the genus Aepyprymnus . The largest member of the potoroo/bettong family ( Potoroidae ), it is about the size of a rabbit.
Many marsupials undergo torpor as well as some birds and placental mammals. [26] There are two types of torpor: hibernation which is long term (weeks or months) and daily torpor which is usually only a few hours. [26] Daily torpor involves a less extreme lowering of body temperature and metabolic rate than hibernation. Antechinus undergo daily ...
Australia is home to two of the five extant species of monotremes and the majority of the world's marsupials (the remainder are from Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the Americas). The taxonomy is somewhat fluid; this list generally follows Menkhorst and Knight [ 1 ] and Van Dyck and Strahan, [ 2 ] with some input from the global list ...
Like other marsupial newborns, the newborn is altricial. About four months elapse until weaning. [4] After young leave the pouch, they take six to seven months to mature sexually. [13] Females mate the day after giving birth, and the fertilized egg arrests development until the young is weaned. This is an example of facultative embryonic ...
Potoroidae is a family of marsupials, small Australian animals known as bettongs, potoroos, and rat-kangaroos. All are rabbit-sized, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby .
This is a list of adaptive radiated marsupials by form; they are adaptively radiated marsupial species equivalent to the many niche-types of non-marsupial mammals. Many of the surviving species are from Australia. There are unique types, for example the extinct genus Nototherium, a 'rhinoceros-type'. [1]
The Hypsiprymnodontidae / ˌ h ɪ p s ɪ ˌ p r ɪ m n oʊ d ɒ n ˈ t aɪ d iː / are a family of macropods, one of two families containing animals commonly referred to as rat-kangaroos.The single known extant genus and species in this family, the musky rat-kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, occurs in northern Australia.
The bandicoot is a member of the order Peramelemorphia, and the word "bandicoot" is often used informally to refer to any peramelemorph, such as the bilby. [2] The term originally referred to the unrelated Indian bandicoot rat from the Telugu word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు) wherein pandi means pig and kokku means rat.