bilbies

I described pythons chaining across the cooling sands, bilbies emerging from their burrows to feed in the starlight, owls coasting on thermals between the dunes.

Remote Reader by Carrie Tiffany 2010

But how can we make sense of Easter among the menagerie of cutesie animals from chocolate bilbies, wombats and rabbits to milk chocolate footballs and all kinds of eggs?

[easter] a post for you to skip over 2009

But how can we make sense of Easter among the menagerie of cutesie animals from chocolate bilbies, wombats and rabbits to milk chocolate footballs and all kinds of eggs?

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

But by eggs and merchandise, Australians generally mean chocolate eggs and chocolate rabbits and chocolate bilbies and hot cross buns of which I eat only the chocolate or non-fruit variety.

Pasen « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2009

Whatever a small child feels about polar bears or chimpanzees or bilbies is, unfortunately irrelevant these days in the face of big business and union interests and their political representatives.

David Horton: Rattling the cages 2008

I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins.

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I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins.

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Luckily, the program has worked, with the population exploding to 42 bilbies.

Planetsave 2009

Luckily, the program has worked, with the population exploding to 42 bilbies.

Planetsave 2009

So sometimes there may be the opportunity to stroke the bilbies and echidnas (and watch the latter run off down the corridor at the back), and on others it may be hand-feeding baby wallabies and Thunderbird the emu.

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