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Ringtail
Ringtail meaning
A ring-tailed animal, notably: | Any of the two extant small nocturnal mammals in the genus Bassariscus, somewhat like raccoons, native to the southwestern United States and Central America. | A North American ringtail, Bassariscus astutus
Example sentences (3)
However, seven other species crashed: dunnarts, woylies, southern brown bandicoots, western ringtail possums, bush rats, brush-tailed phascogales and western brush wallabies.
A tiny ringtail possum has been saved from a bushfire burning south-west of Sydney by heroic firefighters.
Steve Buskirk, author of Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park, introduced participants to rare mammals such as the pigmy rabbit and the ringtail, which are sometimes found in southwest Wyoming.