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The Perth Zoo is responsible for the world's only dibbler breeding program, with 888 of the tiny, rare mammals released into the wild since the program began in 1997. The small marsupial, which weighs ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Behind the scenes at Perth Zoo is a room full of glass aquariums with mesh tops, and within each ...

They are tiny, cuddly and the females are known to be quite picky about their mate, but it seems endangered dibblers (Parantechinus apiclis) have put aside their preferences to create 29 individuals ...

PERTH, Australia, Oct. 15 (UPI) --Pushed to the brink of extinction by land clearing and growing populations of feral cats and foxes, a rare marsupial in Western Australia is trying to make a comeback ...

Twenty-eight dibblers have been released onto Dirk Hartog Island, 730km north of Perth. The tiny marsupial – one of Australia’s rarest – once thrived on the island, until feral animals wiped them out.