Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

The Brush-tailed Bettong, also called Woylie and Brush-tailed Rat-kangaroo, is a marsupial native to two small sanctuary areas of western Australia (the western subspecies; the former southeastern, nominal subspecies is now extinct). A little bigger than the Potoroo, its style of hopping is similar to that of its Kangaroo relatives.

It builds dome-shaped nests using grass which it carries curled in its prehensile tail. Mainly nocturnal and solitary, its main diet is fungi and seeds, tilling the soil and helping to propagate fungi and seeds in droppings. As with other Bettongs, it is critically endangered mainly by introduced predators (foxes, dogs, cats, stoats) as well as habitat destruction.