Like a ball of fur mounted on a spring, they leapt into the crisp night air and on to a landscape of acacia scrub where they hadn’t roamed free for maybe a 100 years or more.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy last month released 147 of the brush-tailed bettongs on to its sanctuary at Mount Gibson, about a four-hour drive north-east of Perth on the edge of the wheatbelt.
