Burrowing Bettong
Bettongia lesueur
Family Potoroidae
Endangered — SA: Endangered, NT: Extinct
About
The boodie, also known as the burrowing bettong or Lesueur's rat-kangaroo, is a small, furry, rat-like mammal native to Australia. Once common throughout the continent, it is now restricted to a few coastal islands. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it lives in burrows and is active at night when it forages for fungi, roots, and other plant matter. It is about the size of a rabbit and, like most marsupials, carries its young in a pouch.
How to spot it
Real occurrence confirmed near Finke Gorge National Park (Atlas of Living Australia, 2001) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Finke Gorge National Park — Central Australia & the Red Centre, NT hikes