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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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pademelon, paddymelon
a small wallaby of the genus Thylogale, of coastal scrubby regions of Australia


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Throughout the four days, numerous sightings of wild animals are assured, including wallabies, kangaroos, echidnas, wombats, pademelons, which are both smaller than wallabies.
As I lay on a table enjoying a massage, with heated volcanic stones on my back, I could see a family of small pademelons (mini wallabies) feeding on button grass in a nearby clearing.
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.
 
 
 
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