Meet our nighttime visitor – the Bandicoot! 🌙🦡 Did you know they have a rearward-facing pouch, just like the Wombat, so they don’t get dirt inside? A clever design for their little ones, who are only the size of a mouse when they first leave Mum’s pouch. They also leave behind ice-cream shaped holes while digging with their pointy noses in search of food! 🐾✨ #BandicootAdventures #WildlifeAtNight #YelvertonRetreat | Yelverton Brook Conservation Sanctuary

a bandicoots pouch - faces backwards

Meet Benny, the northern brown bandicoot! Isoodon macrourus, Australia’s largest bandicoot species is a nighttime forager with a long pointy snout, small, rounded ears and a short bicoloured tail. The brindled brown of their fur is perfect for blending in! Northern brown bandicoots live in woodlands and shrubby lands with areas of low ground cover, as well as tall grasslands and disturbed areas such as suburban gardens. During the wet season this omnivore roams the open grasslands, where insects

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