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Una, a native pademelon or small wallaby, in a pouch and carried by a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator in Kayena, Tasmania, Australia, 27 January 2018. Una was found crying out for her dead mother to respond who was hit and killed by a car. At this age she is unable to survive in the wild on her own and still on four bottles per day mimicking her mother's supply of milk. Killed and maimed native animals litter the roadsides of Australia's southern state of Tasmania. It records among the highest rates of roadkill in the world with between 377,000 and 1.5 million animals killed per year. Research indicates if drivers would slow down, and official speed limits lowered at dusk and dawn in high density wildlife areas, tens of thousands of native animals would be saved. (Photo by Barbara Walton/EPA/EFE)
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