How To Use Bilby In A Sentence
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Jessica the bilby surprised staff at the centre because her mother had failed to breed with three partners and was then thought too old to bear young.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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Bilby named for solo sailor Jessica Watson THREE rebels met in Ipswich today - larrikin swimmer Dawn Fraser, solo sailor Jessica Watson and a bilby who shouldn't have been born.
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Twenty two native mammals are found in the park including dingo Canis familiaris dingo, red kangaroo Macropus rufus, common wallaroo M. robustus, marsupial mole Notoryctes typhlops, spinifex hopping mouse Notomys alexis, several bat species including Australian false vampire Marcoderma gigas (V), bilby Macrotis lagotis (E), occasional short nosed echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus and several small marsupials and native rodents.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
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If you want to save the endangered bilby you don't do it because it is already fitter than its competitors, you do it because the bilby has value to you and you want to protect it for that reason.
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Some animals are casually named - tsessebe, greater bilby, boodie, tuatara, woylie - as if every reader knows what they look like.
NYT > Travel
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It's the bilby, which is an endangered marsupial that lives in the desert.
BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content
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I decided that a toy rabbit would be kind of cute (somehow a toy bilby just doesn't appeal to me as much) so I thought I could try knitting one.
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Everyone abuzz about the bilby stamp, the latest stomach virus.
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I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
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Animals that most people in the area had never seen-such as the squirrel-sized kangaroo known as a potoroo, the rabbit-eared bandicoot or bilby, and the platypus-were back and reproducing in the refuge.
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While everybody sounded pretty keen about saving the bilby at Currawinya, not everyone thinks large enclosures are a good idea.
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If people didn't know what a bilby was before, they will now.
Times, Sunday Times
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However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari.
Simpson desert
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The park protects important habitat for an isolated population of the vulnerable bilby (Macrotis lagotis).
Mitchell grass downs
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However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari.
Simpson desert
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I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
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Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), pale field-rat (Rattus tunneyi), golden-backed tree-rat, and golden bandicoot have declined, especially in the lower rainfall lowland portions of this ecoregion.
Kimberly tropical savanna
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The occasion was a ceremony at the Ipswich Nature Centre to officially name the bilby Jessica after Ms Watson, the Young Australian of the Year.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) and golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus VU), have declined or disappeared altogether from this ecoregion.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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The bilby was not the only animal to catch the prince's attention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pete and Frank are two Aussies blokes who championed the endangered bilby, and four years ago, began a campaign to create a sanctuary.
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Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) and golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus VU), have declined or disappeared altogether from this ecoregion.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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He was also given a rabbit-like toy bilby, which he promptly threw on the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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They fill the same ecological niche as the bunny, only the bunny is better at it, and so since the introduction of the bunny to Australia, bilby numbers have dropped alarmingly.
Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest
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Staff there have named a small fluffy bilby after him.
The Sun