0 a type of marsupial (= an animal that lives in a bag on its mother's body after birth) that lives in Australia
From his armpits and navel emerged bandicoots, who dug their way out of the earth just as the first sun rose into the sky.
They feed mostly on animals like bandicoots and rodents such as rats, but occasionally eat arboreal animals like birds and squirrel gliders.
There were thought to be two families in the orderthe short-legged and mostly herbivorous bandicoots, and the longer-legged, nearly carnivorous bilbies.
Fauna includes goannas, bandicoots, fantails and the tawny frogmouth.
Female bandicoots produce between 8 and 11 litters in their lifetime.
Sometimes when food is scarce, the female bandicoot will eat her young.
The species was represented by several upper and lower jaws, which were smaller than any living bandicoots and had a very primitive dentition.
Repeated infestation with the larva, as occurs in rural and wooded suburban areas where bandicoots are common, rapidly leads to the development of hypersensitivity.
