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eppur_se_muova

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9. Australia is almost the only home of marsupial mammals, many of which are endangered.

Reply to cyberswede (Reply #8)

Tue May 26, 2015, 06:22 PM

May 2015

The quarantine is to keep out flea- and tick-borne pests and the like. Marsupials may have never encountered many of the diseases and parasites which live on placental mammals in the rest of the world, and could be very vulnerable to introduced diseases.

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