in the Barna Mia enclosure at Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia, October 2011, where some (mostly) hand-raised marsupials can be seen by tourists on night tours. Boodies are also known as burrowing bettongs or burrowing rat-kangaroos. Seeing these animals showed me why they are called rat-kangaroos -- I had always thought it was just because of their small size in relation to regular macropods, but they do actually look like giant rats! There were attempts made to reintroduce boodies to the wild in Dryandra Woodlands (they are extinct on mainland Australia) but it was not successful.
