Great Bilby In Monotone
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
Great Bilby In Monotone
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Greater Bilby, sometimes depicted as Australia's Easter Bunny, belongs to a group of ground-dwelling marsupials known as rabbit-bandicoots. There were originally two species of Bilby- The Greater and the Lesser Bilby, Macrotis leucura, but the Lesser Bilby became extinct in the 1950s due to loss of habitat and introduction of invasive animals like the fox and cat.
The Greater Bilby is about the size of a rabbit with soft blue-grey fur with subtle tan markings and a white belly.
Once bilbies used to be found right across Australia, now they on dramatic decline.
The bilby lineage extends back 15 million years . In 2014 scientists found part of a 15-million-year-old fossilised jaw of a bilby which had shorter teeth that were probably used for eating forest fruit. Prior to this discovery, the oldest bilby fossil on record was 5 million years old. Modern bilbies have evolved to have long teeth used to dig holes in the desert to eat worms and insects.
THis picture is from my collection of Wildlife Sydney Darling Harbour.
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April 13th, 2018
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