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Some Useful Trivia |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Gestation
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Pouch Life |
Age at Weaning |
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Ringtail Possum |
Pseudocheirus peregrinus |
28 |
4 months |
6 months |
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Brushtail Possum |
Trichosurus vulpecula |
18 |
5 months |
8 months |
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Sugar Glider |
Petuarus breviceps |
16 |
70 days |
100-110 days |
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Common Wombat |
Vombatus ursinus |
30 |
6 months |
11 months+ |
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Fat-tailed Dunnart |
Sminthopsis crassicaudata |
12 |
48 days |
10 weeks |
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Kowari |
Dasyuroides byrnei |
30-35 |
detach from teat 55 days |
after 110 days |
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Mitchells Hopping Mouse |
Notomys mitchelli |
38-40 |
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35 days |
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Brushtail Bettong |
Bettongia pencillata |
21 |
90 days – 3 months |
3-4 months |
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Rufous Bettong |
Aepyprymnus rufescens |
23 |
16 weeks |
6 months |
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Tasmanian Bettong |
Bettongia gaimardi |
21 |
105 days |
6 months |
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Tasmanian Pademelon |
Thylogale billardierii |
30 |
200 days |
8 months+ |
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Tammar (Dama) Wallaby |
Macropus Eugenii |
25 |
8-9 months |
12 months approx. |
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Red-necked Wallaby |
Macropus rufogriseus |
30 |
280 days |
12 – 17 months |
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Swamp Wallaby |
Wallabia bicolor |
33-38 |
8 months |
15 months |
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Common Wallaroo
(Euro) |
Macropus robustus |
32 |
260 days |
16 months |
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Western Grey Kangaroo |
Macropus fuliginosus |
30 |
10 months |
16 months |
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Kangaroo Island Kangaroo |
M. f. fuliginosus |
30 |
10 months |
16 months |
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Eastern Grey Kangaroo |
Macropus giganteus |
36 |
10 -11 months |
18 months |
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Red Kangaroo |
Macropus rufus |
33 |
7-8 months |
12 months |
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