The northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) is a robust, short‑snouted bandicoot found across northern and eastern Australia (and in parts of New Guinea). It is best known for its strong digging behaviour: at night it uses its sensitive nose and powerful foreclaws to turn over leaf litter and...
The southern brown bandicoot is a small marsupial from southern Australia that forages by probing with its snout and digging rapidly with strong foreclaws. It feeds on a mix of invertebrates, fungi and underground plant parts, leaving many small pits and churned patches that are a distinctive sign o...