Brush-Tailed Bettongs

Nearly missed this guy hiding in the corner of the Australasia Pavilion.

Great pic of a hard to even find animal much less get a photo of. Gold star for Cypher.

Are they by themselves or in a mixed exhibit?

Mixed with southern hairy nosed wombat I believe.

Indeed, it's a mixed exhibit.

The brush tailed bettongs are not only mixed with the wombats. They also share their home with swamp wallabies, a red necked wallaby, and short beaked echidnas.

This is a great picture by the way. I'm glad you were finally able to see one!

Thanks arcticwolf. I would've missed him if my brother never pointed him out. Next I'm hoping to see the Short Beaked Echidnas, which I've yet to see.

Its amazing the number of times one can visit the zoo and still have animals they need to check off their lists. You could go every day and likely still find something new to discover or see for the first time.

Indeed, I have yet to see the beavers out of there little den.

Oh I've never ever seen them out. Luckily I live in a place where seeing a beaver on a like is a somewhat common occurance. Being able to see lots of those kinds of animals in their natural setting certainly frees up my time at the zoo. I can see deer, elk, moose, beavers, black bears (I prefer never to see them so I dont have to worry as much about my dog becoming lunch but I've seen a huge male with a paw 8 inches across... we measured a footprint... and a female with 4 very small cubs), herons, loons, wood ducks, foxes, coyotes, wolves (again I dont like to see them or hear them for the same reason as bears), bald and golden eagles, red tailed hawks, opsrey, turkey vultures, troublesome racoons, skunks and porcupines. I even saw a barred owl one day in my yard... unfortunately it was super icy out and by the time I could get a few feet towards him with a camera my sliping and sliding scared him off before I could get a good shot.

I've also seen a wild snowy owl but that was when we lived in Mississauga and I was a kid. Middle of summer and theres a big snowy owl perched in our big green maple tree. So cool.

My favorite thing to see though is the heron. We usually dont see unless hes flying overhea but we had a big dug pond for six years with koi in it. Every Thanksgiving like clockwork he would come land in the yard and try to eat all the fish. Its sad to watch your beagle spaniel cross go ripping after it only to get close and stop dead in his tracks thinking holy crap when he realizes just how tall they are. THe funniest thing was the year we filled the pond back in because it just wouldnt hold water and he came in to land and turned his head to look back where his pond should be and almost crashed into the trees. He still seems to come by every fall just to check and see if the yummy koi are back.