Tasmanian Bettong

About

The eastern bettong, also known as the southern or Tasmanian bettong, is a small, hopping, rat-like mammal native to grassy forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it is active at night and feeds on fungi and plant roots. Like most marsupials, it carries its young in a pouch. The eastern bettong is under pressure by introduced predators and habitat loss. The subspecies on mainland Australia is extinct, but populations of the Tasmanian subspecies have been reintroduced there.

How to spot it

Real occurrence confirmed near Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (Atlas of Living Australia, 2020) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve — Canberra & Namadgi National Park hikes