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What’s a Quokka?

  • April 10, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

A smaller member of the wallaby family, Australia’s quokka lives mostly in damp, dense underbrush but can climb trees up to about five feet tall. These vegetarian marsupials forage mainly at night, traveling through tunnels they make in the tall grass.

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