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Histogram showing manma] species r ichness and abundance in twoMallet and trro forest sj tes sampled at Dryandra State Forestin oc tober 1990.
Histogram shoxing amphibian and repti le species r ichness andabundance in two t lal let and tt{o forest si tes sampled atDryandra State Forest in october 1990.
FIGURE 9 Vertebrate species r ichness in twowoodland sites sampled at Dryandra1 9 9 0 .
FIGURE 10 Abundance of vertebrates in twowoodland sites sampled in Drysndra1 9 9 0 .
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w e g r a t e f u l l y a c k n o w l e d g e t h e v a l u a b l e a s s i s t a n c e o f :
R o d n e y C l i f t o n a n d C l i v e C a l d w e l l o f C A L M d u r i n g t r a p l i n ee s t a b l i s h m e n t a n d s a m p l i n g . A l I p i t t r a p p i n g e q u i p m e n tsupp l ied by CALM was on hand ensur ing tha t th is aspec t rans m o o t h l y a n d e f f i c i e n t l y ;
D r G o r d o n F r i e n d o f C A L M ( w o o d v a l e ) w h o s u p p l i e d h i sunpub l i shed p i t t rap resu l ts f rom Tutann i ng Reserve fo r smal Iv e r t e b r a t e s ;
Dr L ibby Mat t i ske o f Mat t i ske and Assoc ia tes who car r ied ou ta f ie ' l d assessment o f the sampl ing s i tes and prepared ad e t a i l e d v e g e t a t i o n a n d s o i l s d e s c r i p t i o n f o r e a c h o f t h e s e ;
G r e g H a r o l d w h o p r o v i d e d h i s h e r p e t o l o g i c a l e x p e r t i s e ;
J o h n D e l I o f t h e W . A . M u s e u m w h o g a v e f r e e l y o f h i s e x t e n s i v ek n o w l e d g e o f W h e a t b e l t a n d D a r l i n g R a n g e v e r t e b r a t e s ;
B e t t y l J e I l i n g t o n w h o o r g a n i s e d a n d p r e s e n t e d t h e a m p h i b i a na n d r e p t i l e d a t a f r o m w . A , N a t u r a l i s t s C l u b m e m b e r s f o r u s ei n t h i s r e p o r t .
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h igher than 500mm per annum. F igure 4 in Serventy andWhi t te l1 dep ic ts the boundary o f the maior i t y o f Bass ianspec ies near the eas tern marg in o f the fo res t b lock .
The loca t ion o f Dryandra p laces i t in the Bass ian sub- reg ion ,The on ly comprehens ive , pub l i shed l i s t o f b i rds fo r Dryandrais tha t o f Job (1969) who descr ibEd 75 spec ies , the major i t yo f w h i c h a r e t y p i c a l l y w i d e - r a n g i n g f o r e s t b i r d s . J o b ' s l i s ta lso inc luded examples o f Wheatbe l t semi -ar id spec ies such asthe Mal lee- fowl , Le ipoa oce l la ta , Chestnu t Qua i 1 - th rush ,Cinclosona castanotun, White-browed Babbler, Ponatostonussuperc i T iosus , and the B lue-breas ted Fa i ry -wren, Ma luruspu lcher r inus , Job 's I i s t can be compared w i th tha t o fS e d g w i c k ( 1 9 6 2 ) f o r t h e W i i l i a m s d i s t r i c t , a l o c a t i o ns i tua ted in s imi la r wood lands south-west o f Dryandra . Near lya l ' l the spec ies recorded by Sedgwick were recorded by Job a tD r y a n d r a .
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l. lammals: several Dryandra mammals are endemic to the South-west Botan ica l Prov ince . In many cases they ex tend we l lbeyond the t rans i t iona l zone be tween the Wheatbe l t Reg ion andthe South-west Fores t Reg ion ou t l ined above bu t have a w iderd i s t r i b u t i o n d e f i n e d b y a l i n e f r o m S h a r k B a y t o I s r a e l i t eBay. Examp les of these are the Western Brush wallaby Macropusirna and the Honey-possum lars ipes rostratus, both of whichwere recorded dur ing th is s tudy . Others a re res t r i c ted to thedeeper south-west and ad jacent Wheatbe l t o f Western Aus t ra l iae i ther because o f the i r spec ia l i sed hab i ta t requ i rements o rbecause the i r geograph ic range has cont rac ted s ince Europeanset t ' lement . Typ ica l examples o f these recorded a t Dryandraare the Numbat Myrnecobius fasciatus and the Brush-tai ledBet tong Bet tong ia pen i c i I I a ta .
Amphib ians and Rept i les : Chapman and De l l (1985) d iscussedthe zoogeography and d is t r ibu t ion o f Wheatbe l t amph i b ians andr e p t i 1 e s a n d p r e s e n t e d d i s t r i b u t i o n m a p s f o r a l l s p e c i e s .These maps included the Dryandra area and showed that mostspec ies were w ide- rang ing , Chapman and De l l a lso conc l udedtha t the major i t y o f w ide-spread spec ies were usua l ly foundon heav ie r so i l s and on ly deep sand spec ia l i s ts tended to begeograph ica l l y i so la ted . Because the so i l s a t Dryandra arepr imar i l y heavy , and cons is t o f weathered gran i tes andla te r i t i c dur ic rus t the herpeto fauna genera l 1y re f lec ts tha to f the Wheatbe l t , a l though a s t rong South-west Fores t Reg ionin f I uence is apparent .
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Survey e f fo r t i s tabu la ted be low and the loca t ion o f sampl inga r e a s i s s h o w n i n F i g u r e 1 . I n t h e f o l l o w i n g d e s c r i p t i o n o fsampl ing methods there are two ca tegor ies o f da ta co l lec t ion :C e n s u s S a m p l i n g a n d I n v e n t o r y S a m p l i n g .
Census sampl ing : re fe rs to da ta wh ich was sys temat ica l l yga thered over a f i xed t im€ per iod in an area o f known s izeand o f a d isc re te vegeta t ion type . The resu l t ing in fo rmat ionhas been used as a standardised base for si te comparisonswi th in the s tudy area in o rder to assess fauna l a f f in i t ies o rd i s s i m i l a r i t i e s , T h i s t y p e o f s a m p i i n g a l s o a l l o w s f o rob jec t ive seasona l compar isons o f s i tes . Prov id ing the samemethods are adhered to , fu tu re mon i to r ing can be car r ied ou tb y a n y s u i t a b l y e x p e r i e n c e d f i e l d p e r s o n n e l .
I n v e n t o r y s a m p l i n g : i n c l u d e s a l I o p p o r t u n i s t i c a l l y g a t h e r e d ,non-sys temat ic da ta such as tha t recorded dur ing thereconna issance, t ransec t / t rap l ine es tab l i shment o r wh i le teammembers were t ravers ing the s tudy area .
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var ia t ions in observer b ias , weather and peak ac t iv i t yper iods o f b i rds ' observers s lowly moved a long each t ransec tand recorded a l I b i rds by s igh t o r sound w i th in f i ve 10 met red is tance ca tegor ies e i ther s ide o f the t ransec t cen t re l ine .Accessory in fo rmat ion such as breed ing ac t iv i t y ' fEed ingbehav iour and p lan t spec ies u t i l i sed was logged on to f ie ' lddata sheets for eventual transfer to a computer database.
The resu l t ' i ng da ta have been used to de term' i ne the ind iv idua lb i r d s p e c i e s d e n s i t i e s w i t h i n e a c h s a m p l i n g s i t e . T h i s
sampl ing technique is knovrn as the str ip-transect method ancl
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Harden e t a l . (1986) . Census ing methods such as these aredes igned to es t imate the dens i ty per un i t a rea o f the"e f fec t i ve a rea" o f observa t ion wh ich var ies be tween b i rd
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sys temat ic s i tes dur ing the reconna issance and es tab l i sh tnento f t rap l ines and t ransec ts . Supp lementary in fo rmat ion was
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the course o f spo t ' l igh t runs th rough the fo res t . Each' i nventory record was al I ocated to a vegetat ' ion comtnuni tywhere i t cor responded to a sampi ing s i te ' A l I o ther hab i ta ts 'fo r example , the F looded Gum Euca lyp tus rud is s t ream zone 'w e r e p l a c e d \ n a n i n v e n t o r y c a t e g o r y ( " O P " ' T a b l e s 3 ' 4 & 5 )wh ich represents oppor tun is t i ca l I y sampled , genera l l y smal lv e g e t a t i o n c o m m u n i t i e s n o t d e s c r i b e d i n d e t a i l .
Data Ana lys is : raw d is tance ca tegory da ta fo r each b i rdrecord was ana lysed us ing a cus tom des i gned computerprogramme wh ich produces a max imum dens i ty f igure fo r eachs o e c i e s i n e a c h s i t e ( A p p e n d i x 2 a & b ) . T h e s e m a x i m u m d e n s i t yf igures were in t roduced in to a da ta c lus te r ing programme
w h i c h c a l c u l a t e d a s i t e a f f i n i t y , g r o u p - a v e r a g i n g d e n d r o g r a m( f i g , 5 ) . T h e c l u s t e r i n g a n a l y s i s a l g o r i t h m u s e d w a s t h eC o s i n e I C o - e f f i c i e n t ( I m b r i e a n d P u r d i e 1 9 6 2 ) w h e r e 8 i p i sthe ang le be tween any two samples X i and Xp about the or ig in 'Cos ' i ne 0 i s a measure o f the degree to wh ich samplesresemble one another in compos ' i t ion or o ther a t t r ibu tes . When0 is 90 ' . cos e = O, and the samples have no th ing in common;w h e n g i s 0 ' , c o s g = 1 , a n d t h e s a m p l e s a r e i d e n t i c a l i nc o m p o s i t i o n . T h e f o r m u l a f o r t h e C o s i n e T h e t a C o - e f f i c i e n t i sg i v e n b e 1 o w :
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an attempt to capture the Red-tai 1ed Wambenger phascogalec a l u r a . T h i s l i n e c o n s i s t e d o f 2 5 E l l i o t t t r a p s , 1 3 o f w h . i c nwere pos i t ioned on the ground and 1Z t . ied to t runks anobranches o f t rees .
B a t s w e r e s a m p l e d u s i n g a c o l l a p s i b l e b a t t r a p w h i c h w a s l e f tin pos i t ion fo r seven n igh ts and checked each morn ing . Thesite chosen for the bat trap was a dam located on a streamzone in c lose prox imi ty to Wandoo S i te g . One hundred anotwenty met res o f mis t ne t (3 x 40 met re ne ts ) were a lso se tfo r one n igh t a t the same s i te . These ne ts were mon i to red fo rapprox imate ly th ree hours f rom dusk . Two ex tended spot l igh tsampi ing runs were car r ied ou t a long t racks dur ing the surveyand a l l inventory da ta f rom beyond sampl ing s i tes waso p p o r t u n i s t i c a l l y c o l I e c t e d a s d e s c r i b e d f o r b i r d s .
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Dr E .M. Mat t i ske o f Mat t i ske and Assoc ia tes descr i bed thevegeta t i_on communi t ies sampled fo r vEr tebra te fauna. One dayw a s s p e n t v i s i t i n g a n d d e s c r i b i n g s i t e s . U n i d e n t i f i e d p l a n t swere taken fo r iden t i f i ca t ion a t the Sta te Herbar ium and so . i Isamples were co l lec ted fo r ana lys is . photographs were takenof each s i te . Vegeta t ion s t ruc tu re descr i p t ions were loggedo n t o f i e l d d a t a s h e e t s a n d a r e f u l l y d e t a i l e d i n A p p e n d i x 1 .
2 . 4 Nomenclature and Taxonony
Nomenc la tu re and taxonomy in th is repor t fo l lows: B lakers e ta l , ( 1 9 8 4 ) - B i r d s ; S t r a h a n ( 1 9 8 3 ) - M a m m a l s ; S t o r r e t a l .( 1 9 8 1 , 1 9 8 3 , 1 9 8 6 , 1 9 9 0 ) - R e p t i l e s ; a n d T y l e r e t a l . ( 1 9 8 4 )- A m p h i b i a n s .
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F IGURE 4 H is togram showing b i rd spec ies r i chness andabundance in two Mal let and two forest si tes sampledat Dryandra State Forest in October 199O. (Dataexpressed as a percentage of total species andabundance records shown in Table 3).
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a soec ies no t p rev ious ly recorded in the Dryandra area '
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Rabb i t observed in t ' ta l le t S i te 1 and another in the paddock
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T h r e e a m p h i b i a n s a n d 1 8 r e p t i l e s w e r e r e c o r d e d d u r i n g t h i ssurvey (Tab le 5 ) . No gazet ted spec ies were captured a l thoughone ra re spec ies o f snake, the carpe t Py thon More l ia sp i lo tainbr ica ta , i s known f rom Dryandra Sta te Fores t .
Severa l amph i b ians and rep t i les were recorded a t bo th theeas tern and western l im i ts o f the i r known range dur ing th isa n d o t h e r s t u d i e s ( T a b l e 5 , A p p e n d i x 4 ) . E a s t e r n e x a m p l e sare : the leg less l i zards Apras ia pu lche 7 la and A. repens , thesk inks Ctenotus lab i l la rd ie r i and Le io lop isna t r i l i nea tun andthe snakes Ranphotyphlops pinguis and Notechis scutatusoccidenta 7 is. Western examples are represented by the Dragon'I i zard Moloch horridus and the skink Ereniascincusr ichardson i i . Th is underscores the po in t made in Sec t ion 1 .2tha t the reserve 's herpe to fauna genera i I y re f lec ts i t soos i t ion on the t rans i t ion zone be tween the Wheatbe l t andthe South-west Fores t Reg ion ' A fu r ther f i ve spec ies o famphi b ian and 29 spec ies o f rep t i le a re known f rom theDryandra area . These are l i s ted in Append ix 4 .
TABLE 5 List of amphibian and repti le species recorded duringsystematic and inventory sampling at Dryandra StateForest between October 16 and 25, 1990.
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B i rds : second h ighes t number o f b i rd spec ies , number o fi n d i v i d u a l s a n d d e n s i t y p e r h e c t a r e o f a l l f o u r b i r d s a m p l i n gloca t ions . Second on ly to Wandoo Euca lyp tus wandoo S i te 3 .
l ' l a r m a l s : a l o n g w i t h M a l l e t S i t e 2 a n d H e a t h s i t e 5 t h i sl o c a t i o n w a s t h i r d i n m a m m a l s p e c i e s r i c h n e s s o f a i l s i xt r a p p i n g g r i d s . I t h a d t h e l o w e s t n u m b e r o f i n d i v i d u a l s .
Amphib ians and Rept i les : second grea tes t amph ib ian andrept i le spec ies r i chness w i th on ly Wandoo Euca lyp tus wandooS i t e 3 b e i n g m o r e p r o d u c t i v e ; h i g h e s t n u m b e r o f i n d i v i d u a l sf o i l o w e d b y M a r r i S i t e 6 '
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B i r d s : l o w e s t n u m b e r o f s p e c i e s , n u m b e r o f i n d i v i d u a l s a n db i r d d e n s i t y p e r h e c t a r e .
I ' l a m m a l s : a l o n g w i t h M a l l e t S i t e 1 a n d H e a t h s i t e 5 t h i s' l o c a t i o n
w a s t h i r d i n m a m m a l s p e c i e s r i c h n e s s o f a l l s i xt r a p p i n g g r i d s . I t w a s a l s o e q u a l t h i r d w i t h W a n d o oE u c a l y p t u s a c c e d e n s S i t e 4 i n i t s n u m b e r o f i n d i v i d u a l s .
Amphib ians and Rept i ]es : lowest spec ies r i chness and second' I o w e s t n u m b e r o f i n d i v i d u a l s '
T h e f o l l o w i n g d i a g r a m s s u m m a r i s e t h e a b o v e i n f o r m a t i o n .H o w e v e r , s i n c e b i r d t r a n s e c t s a m p l i n g w a s r e q u i r e d i n o n l ytwo o ther na tura l wood land assoc ia t ions , Heath S i te 5 andM a r r i S i t e 6 a r e n o t i n c l u d e d ' S y s t e m a t i c g r i d t r a p p i n ga lone was conducted in these assoc ia t ions w i th the i r mammal ,a m p h i b i a n a n d r e p t i l e d a t a p r e v i o u s l y s u m m a r i s e d i n F i g u r e s 7a n d 8 . A n I n d i c a t i o n o f t h e i r b i r d s p e c i e s r j c h n e s s c a n b eobta ined f rom the resu l ts o f inventory sampl ing in Tab le 3w h i c h s h o w s t h a t M a r r i S i t e 6 i n p a r t i c u l a r h a d t h e p o t e n t i a lt o b e r i c h i n b i r d s P e c i e s .
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T h e Y o r n a n i n g M a l l e t s i t e c o n t a i n e d a s i g n i f i c a n t a d m i x t u r eof Wandoo Eucalyptus wandoo and because of this, was muchr i c h e r t h a n t h e D r y a n d r a p l a n t a t i o n s ( a s t y p i f i e d b y t h er e s u l t s o f W a n d o o S i t e 3 i n t h i s c u r r e n t s t u d y ) . I n a d d i t i o n ,th is na tura l Ma l le t hab i ta t was sampled tw ice ra ther than
P i t t r a p p i n g d a t a f r o m t h e T u t a n n i n g M a l l e t w e r e f a i r l ys i m i l a r t o t h e D r y a n d r a r e s u l t s i n t h a t c a p t u r e s i n M a l l e tand Powderbark Wandoo Euca lyp tus accedens assoc ia t ions weres ign i f i can t ly lower than those f rom Wandoo Euca lyp tus wandooo r h e a t h . T h e n u m b e r o f s p e c i e s r e c o r d e d , h o w e v e r , w a s h i g h e rt h a n t h a t f r o m t h e D r y a n d r a M a l l e t p l a n t a t i o n s , b u t o n c ea g a i n t h i s m a y h a v e m o r e t o d o w i t h t h e f r e q u e n c y o f s a m p l i n gthan any o the l i n f l uenc i ng f ac to r .
O n t h e b a s i s o f t h i s s t u d y a n d w o r k b y o t h e r r e s e a r c h e r s , i ti s c o n c l u d e d t h a t :
t h e r e a r e m a j o r d i f f e r e n c e s i n v e r t e b r a t e s p e c i e s r i c h n e s sa n d a b u n d a n c e b e t w e e n i n d i v i d u a l t l a l l e t p l a n t a t i o n s :
the age o f the p lan ta t ion , the amount o f regrowth and thei n c l u s i o n o f h a b i t a t e l e m e n t s s u c h a s n a t u r a l v e g e t a t i o ni s o l a t e s o r r o c k y o u t c r o p s h a v e a s t r o n g i n f l u e n c e o nv e r t e b r a l e s p e c i e s r i c h n e s s a n d a b u n d a n c e :
in te rms o f ver tebra te spec ies r i chness and abundance.t h e D r y a n d r a M a l l e t p l a n t a t i o n s c o m p a r e f a v o u r a b l y w i t hnatura l vegeta t ion assoc ia t ions depend ing on the leve l o frepresenta t ion o f the above hab i ta t i so la tes ;
work by o ther researchers in na tura l Ma l le t has shown tha tw h i l e t h e s e a s s o c i a t i o n s a r e g e n e r a l 1 y s i m i l a r t o l e s sproduc t ive hab i ta ts such as Powderbark Wandoo Euca lyp tusa c c e d e n s , t h e y a r e m a r g i n a l l y r i c h e r t h a n p l a n t a t i o n s :a n d ,
based on o ther s tud ies , seasona l compar isons may show agreater degree o f Ma l le t p l an ta t ion usage than wasa s s e s s e d i n t h i s s i n g l e s e a s o n s u r v e y .
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Average fo l iage dens i ty 23 .
stratun 3. castrolobiun nicrocarpun and Acacia pulchella shrubs.Stratum 0.5-1m tal l , 2-102 canopy cover at sample point '
Average fol iage density 2: '
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lluir oescriptlon: Forest over open Lor V{ood I and B over 0p6n Dwarf Scrub Cover Open Dvarf Scrub D over very open Herbs,
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Stratum 4. Astrolona pallidun, Bossiaea eriocarpa, Hakea prostrata,Hibbertia enervia and Hibbertia co nutata shrubs. Stratum 0-0.5m tal i , 2-1Or( canopy cover at sample point. Averagefo l iage dens i ty 3x ,
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Coments: No evidence of f i re in recent years. l{eeds and introducedgrasses absent. Stand is 20 years plus old.
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SITE 6
General Oescription: Low woodland of Eucalyptustandoo.
fuir D€scription: Lov l{oodland A over op€n scrubopen Dwarf Scrub D over Very open Herbs.
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Stratun 2. Hakea prostrata, Jacksonia sternbergiana and Gastrolobiunspinosun. Stratum )2m tal l , 27 - 1OX canopy cover at samplepoint. Average fol iage density 3X.
Stratm 3. Pericalyrma ellipticun, Hypocalynma angustifoliun andPetrophi Ie squanata shrubs. Stratum 0.5-lm tal l , 30-70Xcanopy cover at sample point. Average fol iage density 45x.
Stratum 4. Leucopogon aff . obtusatus and Hibbertia enervia, Stratum 0-0.5m tal l , 2-10x canopy cov€r at sar ple point. Averagefol iage density 2t.
stratum 5. l.llxed herbaceous and Poaceaetal l , 2-10x canopy cover atdensity 31.
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1-4cm deep leaf l i t ter, mostly f ine twigs and leaves,occasional large log p resent.
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APPENDIX 3 List of marmal apecies not recorded during thjastudy but previously known from the Dryandra area(K i tchener and v icker 1981 ) .
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DASYURIDAEDasyurus geoffroi i,Phascogale tapoatafa,P . ca l u ra ,Sninthopsis gi I bert i ,s. crassicaudata,PERA}IELIDAEIsoodon obesu I us,POTOROIDAEBettongia l esueur,MACROPODIDAELagostrophus fasc ia tus,Macropus eugeni i,l,{OLOSSIDAETadarida austral is,VESPERTILIONIDAEscotorepens balstoni,Fa l s i s t re l Ius nckenz ie i ,MURIDAERattus rattus,Mus nuscul us,FELIDAEFel i s ca tus ,
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Southern Brown Bandi coot
Burrowing Bettong
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