The marsupial managed to escape from Cattle Country in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, over the weekend.

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The Tasmanian devil is a little marsupial carnivore and they have a tendency to bite one another in the face.

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We started a game one week where he, I and a few others changed our Twitter photos rotating through the marsupial family.

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The marsupial family began expanding about 70-80 million years ago.

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The overall marsupial history is virtually a circular migration.

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Accessories abounded: A Marsupial tote bag (cult following, anyone?).

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The island is jam-packed with wallabies, wombats and possums, principally because foxes, which have decimated marsupial populations on the mainland, were slow to reach the island (the first fox was found in Tasmania only as recently as 2001).

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Though foxes are of recent introduction in Australia (having been brought for sport by British settlers), many marsupial predators, now extinct, were present before the arrival of man in both his Aboriginal and his European forms, so the ecological system of plants, herbivores and carnivores in the eucalyptus forests would probably not have been that different in the evolutionary past.

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