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It looks like a miniature kangaroo and it’s bouncing back from the brink of extinction | CNN

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Until recently, the brush-tailed bettong was extinct in South Australia ’s Yorke Peninsula .

European colonization of the country brought with it predatory feral cats and foxes.

Between 1999 and 2010 , the species’ population size declined by 90% a drastic drop that some research suggests may have resulted from the spread of blood parasites.

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