| Look out for platypus, bandicoots, wallabies, pademelon, pygmy possums and a wild array of birds. |
| A quokka, by the way, is a stocky Australian pademelon, or wallaby. |
| It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia. |
| The brushtail possum and Tasmanian pademelon were the most common species hit by traffic. |
| But we also marveled at the sight of a pademelon carefully grooming the tiny joey in its pouch, so unused to humans that it seemed not to even notice us. |
