Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of bandicoot, in the family Peramelidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in one country.
This ultra-fast breeding strategy offsets the heavy losses to introduced predators such as cats and foxes.
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It eats invertebrates, fungi and roots, dug out of the ground with its long snout.
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It lives in woodland, scrub and towns of eastern Australia.
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It can dig dozens of small pits a night hunting invertebrates underground, aerating and turning the soil rather as an oversized earthworm would.
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