Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus

Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo
The Long-nosed Potoroo, also called one of the Rat-kangaroos, is a marsupial native to southeast Australia.
Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo
About the size of a wild rabbit, its upright bearing and style of hopping is similar to that of its Kangaroo relative.
Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo with juvenile
Long-nosed Potoroo with juvenile
It is one of three Potoroos, all native to Australia. The tail is fat and rat-like with a white or pale tip and, like that of the kangaroo, helps with stability when upright.
Long-nosed Potoroos with joey With joey
Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo
Mainly nocturnal and solitary, its main diet is fungi, helping to propagate the fungi in droppings; it also eats seeds and insects.
Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo
Long-nosed Potoroo
All three species of Potoroo are endangered (one is the single most-endangered mammal in Australia) mainly by introduced predators (foxes, dogs, cats, stoats) as well as habitat destruction.