Mr Maher and Noah's bandicoot facts
This looks like a long-nosed bandicoot - see Flickr.
Introduction
A bandicoot is a kind of marsupial that lives in Australia. different bandicoots
a southern brown bandicoot Photo is in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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a long-nosed bandicoot By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88021827
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a golden bandicoot |
an eastern-barred bandicoot |
A western brown bandicoot is also called a quenda.
What...
small rabbit size, pointy noise, humped back, thin tail and large back legs. mostly brown-grey, small ears
larger bandicoots 3kg
larger bandicoots 3kg
What...
Bandicoots eat insects and spiders. They can even eat mice! They also eat plants. If they visit a garden they may eat cat or dog food! They don’t need much water and can go for weeks without drinking.
This bandicoot is eating a worm.
By Bertram Lobert - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10422846
How does it live?
comes out: night
sleeps: day
nest: log, drainpipe, hole in ground
nests: leaves, grass, sticks
tops of nest: leaves
sleeps: day
nest: log, drainpipe, hole in ground
nests: leaves, grass, sticks
tops of nest: leaves
A long-nosed bandicoot sniff can for food at night.
By JJ Harrison - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112334684
By Ellen Forsyth from Sydney, Australia - Endangered bandicoot sign, Manly, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Bandicoot babies
When a baby bandicoot is born, it is about the size of a jellybean. It crawls into its mum's pouch. The baby is called a Joey.
Bilbies
A bilby is closely related to a bandicoot. It is even called a rabbit-eared bandicoot.
By State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92725981
It is a marsupial too, so its baby spends part of its life in the mum's pouch.