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What animal is native to Australia and is nocturnal?

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Most of the animals native to Australia are marsupials, and almost all of them are nocturnal. Nocturnal native Australian animals are:

  • some sixty species of kangaroo, including wallaroo, potoroo, pademelon, rufous rat-kangaroo and wallaby (note: the rat-kangaroo is quite different to the kangaroo rat of North America)
  • koala
  • wombat
  • possum (not opossum)
  • glider
  • potoroo
  • bandicoot, including the bilby
  • quokka
  • quoll
  • Tasmanian Devil
  • phascogale
  • dunnart
  • cuscus
  • bettong
  • nabarlek
  • antechinus
  • native hopping mouse
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