Bandicoot: Habitat

Habitat and Geographic Range

The southern brown bandicoot ranges right across southern Australia (except the Nullarbor and Eyre Peninsula) although its range has contracted since European settlement. They occur mainly in dense understory and frequently in damp, heathy thickets and around swamps where their tunnel-like runways are easily recognisable.

Food and Foraging

Bandicoots eat insects, spiders and other invertebrates and plant roots and tubers. Their conical diggings, made partly with their snouts are very distinctive. Bandicoots forage at night and on dull, damp days.

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