The Kakadu dunnart (Sminthopsis bindi) is a small marsupial, a dunnart first described in 1994 whose closest relative is the Carpentarian dunnart. Its body length is typically 50 to 85 millimetres with a tail 60 to 105 millimetres long, giving a total length between 110 and 190 millimetres, and it weighs 10 to 25 grams, which places it in the mid-range of dunnarts. Its colour is grey, gingery on the upper body and underbelly, with white feet. It lives near the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia around Kakadu National Park and prefers stony woodland on hilly ground. Little is known about its social organisation or breeding habits because the species is not well studied, but it probably breeds in the dry season and may burrow. Its diet may include arthropods and other insects.
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The Kakadu dunnart lives near the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia around the Kakadu National Park.
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The Kakadu dunnart lives near the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia around the Kakadu National Park.
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A dunnart (from Noongar donat) is a narrow-footed marsupial the size of a European mouse, of the genus Sminthopsis.
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