Rufous Bettong and Brush-tailed Bettong nesting together today at AAHQ :) | Animals Anonymous

What’s this? 👀 It’s a bettong! After an absence of more than 100 years, last week, a group of bettongs from Wedge Island were released in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park, South Australia to re-establish a colony! Find out more: https://www.wwf.org.au/news/news/2021/brush-tailed-bettongs-back-on-mainland-south-australia-after-disappearing-more-than-100-years-ago Join us in welcoming them in the comments below 🎉🎉🎉 #MarnaBanggara #NLP #NationalLandCare | WWF-Australia

One of Australia’s rarest marsupials, the brush-tailed bettong, has been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after being locally extinct for more than a century. 7NEWS Adelaide at 6pm | www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

Buttercup the Rufous Bettong joey is learning how to kickbox and build a den, as she prepares for a future in Aussie Ark’s breeding and re-wilding program! Wildlife Carer Riley Tydeman has cared for Buttercup since she was tragically thrown from her mother’s pouch six months ago, and is in charge of making sure she has all her ‘wild ways’ ready for the day she lives with her own kind. If you’d like to help Buttercup prepare to be an adult Rufous Bettong please donate today at aussieark.org.au |

A Little-Known SEQ Cutie: The Rufous Bettong 🦘❤️ Have you ever seen a rufous bettong in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)? Chances are, you haven’t – and you might not even know what one is! The rufous bettong (Aepyprymnus rufescens) is a small nocturnal, hopping marsupial with reddish-brown fur, often described as looking like a mix between a bandicoot and a wallaby. Despite being native to SEQ, these fascinating creatures were once more widespread. Now, their populations are scattered and fragmented