The dalgyte or bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is a gentle animal with soft, blue-grey fur, long ears and a decorative black and white tail. It spends daylight hours in a deep burrow and emerges after dark to feed on insects, grubs, seeds, fungi and bulbs.

The marl or western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) builds a nest of litter, leaves and grasses under low bushes. These small, delicate marsupials are uncommon on the mainland but thrive on Bernier and Dorre Islands where there are no cats and foxes.

The wurrup or rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) is a slight, fragile marsupial with reddish, shaggy fur. When disturbed it springs from its shelter and quickly bounds away in a zigzag motion. Wildfire and predation by foxes extinguished the last two wild mainland populations in the early 1990s. This species now survives on islands and in enclosures such as Barna Mia.

The mernine or banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) has distinctive dark bands across its back and rump. This species breeds slowly, as females produce only one offspring each year and the young wallaby spends the first six months in its mother's pouch.

The boodie or burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur) is a social