Least ConcernBobcat
Lynx rufus
One of the 11 rats on WAnimals
Mammals · Diprotodontia · Potoroidae
Caloprymnus campestris
No living individual remains anywhere in the world.
The desert rat-kangaroo was a small marsupial of the deserts of central Australia, the only representative of its genus. It is one of the least known mammals in the world: it was described in 1841 from a handful of specimens and then vanished for ninety years, until in 1931 the naturalist Hedley Finlayson found it again in north-eastern South Australia. The last reliable sightings are from 1935. It lived in a shallow nest made of grass, without digging burrows, on bare, scorched plains.
Weight
600 g – 1.1 kg
Size
25 cm – 28 cm
Diet
Herbivore
Feeds mainly on plants.
Activity
Nocturnal
Active mainly at night.
Social structure
Solitary
Lives and hunts alone, joining others only to breed.
Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Caloprymnus campestris
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented — showing 10 of 12.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Desert Rat-kangaroo — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about desert rat-kangaroo.
