Woylie

Woylies are sometimes referred to as brush-tailed rat kangaroos. This alternative name is an apt description of these small marsupials.

It's a whodunit involving the woylie, the marsupial poster-child for recovery programs involving endangered animals.

‘Like a woylie,’ said John Dell, ‘Closely related.’ Ah. Of course. Even I'd heard of the woylie. But like most of my countrymen, I couldn't have described one for love nor money. The woylie belongs to the great treasury of marsupials that we revere and know nothing about. As I learnt that day, the boodie and the woylie are different species of bettong.