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The local supermarket has stocks of chocolate bilbies AND chocolate wombats. I am well stocked for Paganfest on the 14th!

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Date: 5 Apr 2006 00:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
What's a bilbie? (Quoth the Aussie-impaired...)

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Date: 5 Apr 2006 01:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
http://www.naturebase.net/plants_animals/odd_bilby.html specifically http://www.easterbilby.com.au/ Bilbies are rabbit-like marsupials that have been driven to the verge of extinction by rabbits.

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Date: 5 Apr 2006 02:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
Awww, how cute! Can anyone get in on the "buy a fence panel" project? Do they take PayPal?

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Date: 5 Apr 2006 18:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annvole.livejournal.com
From that first link it says: "Their burrows go down in a steep spiral to a depth of around two metres". There is an extinct marmot-like animal related to beavers that made spiral tunnels about that deep. Now they are finding fosselized tunnels all over the world that they are saying are made by the same creature... I wonder if some were made by ancient bilbies instead... maybe the beaver-like critters are actually squatters.

Here are some links about the fosselized spiral burrows:
http://annbat.livejournal.com/1695.html#cutid1

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