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By Reed Cathcart 7B
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The Mountain Pygmy-Possum is the only Australian mammal that needs winter snow to survive. Unfortunately, snow sports and snow activities damage its habitat by compacting the snow.
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The mountain pygmy possum is 45 grams in weight, 11 centimetres long, it is a mouse like animal and its tail is 14 centimetres long.
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The Mountain Pygmy Possum eats insects (such as the Bogong Moth), fleshy fruits, nuts, nectar and seeds.
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Before 1966 everybody thought that Mountain Pigmy Possums were extinct because scientist could only find fossils but when a living specimen was discovered in a ski-hut on Mount Hotham they found that it wasn’t extinct.
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Some Threats are extinction, habitat loss or destruction and cats and foxes.
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