bilbies
- plural of bilby.
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From bilbies with their giant heat-releasing ears to great thorny devils - which use their spikes to channel water into their mouths - many have developed quirks which help them cope in the harsh environment.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
Both species became warier; cat-exposed bilbies, for example, grew slower to emerge from artificial burrows and tended to avoid unprotected areas after emerging.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2019
The fate of the tagged animals revealed the advantage of prior exposure to cats: Cats killed 71% of the naïve bilbies but just a third of the savvy animals.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2019
Yet in as little as 18 months, the researchers noticed behavioral changes in the animals living with cats, which included bilbies and burrowing bettongs, a marsupial also known as a rat kangaroo.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2019
In one early test, “We actually chased wild bilbies and rubbed them with a dead cat” to see whether that would help them avoid the predators in the wild, Moseby recalls.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2019
