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Monotremes Duck-billed Platypus glimpsed as it returns to its riverbank cavity	Short-beaked Echidna, along with the platypus, is a monotreme that lays eggs	Marsupials Common Brushtail Possum, a nocturnal marsupial viewed during an evening of spotlighting	Roadsign alerting motorists of kangaroos in the area
Stalking kangaroos at Mareeba	Eastern Grey Kangaroos, the largest species in northern Queensland	Kangaroo staring down the instructor	Granite Gorge, home to another kangaroo species
Unadorned Rock Wallabies, a smaller relative of the kangaroos	Wallabies with a joey in her pouch	Placentals Flying-foxes or fruit bats roosting at Tolga Scrub	Flying-fox taking off
Flying-foxes in flight	Spectacled Flying-fox close up	Dingo, one of Australia's few indigenous placental mammals	Dingoes were introduced from southeast Asia by the Aborigines

 

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