Desert Bandicoot

Also known as Orange-backed Bandicoot, Walilya

Desert bandicoots were small, solitary marsupials uniquely adapted to survive across the vast sandplains and dunefields of central Australia. During daylight hours they sheltered inside shallow nests lined with grass and dry leaves concealed under spinifex hummocks or inside burrows. At night, they emerged to probe the sandy soil with their pointed snouts in search of subterranean invertebrates and succulent tubers.