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pademelon

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pademelon: see kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials , or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus.
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Wombats, quolls, potoroos, little penguins, giant lobsters and pademelons all populate the pages of this eco-adventure with Brooklyn nature writers Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, but it's the elusive, thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) they track that is at the mysterious center of it all.
Tiger tracks by Belli, Brita / E
Along the way, Mittelbach, Crewdson, and company commune with wildlife experts and revel in Tasmania's rich ecological diversity, including such unfamiliar animals as the potoroo, the pademelon, and the quoll.
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Science News
2 -- color) This pademelon, a native of New Guinea, is a relative of the kangaroo.
PACIFIC SWELL TROPICAL ISLAND ANIMALS AND CULTURE IN FULL BLOOM AT ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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