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  oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Java NIO
The animal on the cover of Java NIO is a pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus).
A slow gait took the form of a bunny hop, while an intermediate gait was a lumbering quadrepedal run with the hind limbs moving alternately.
ecaudatus, but from studying other bandicoots, it can be inferred that pig-footed bandicoots did not carry more than four young per littler.
www.oreilly.com /catalog/javanio/colophon.html   (569 words)

  
 Pig-Footed Bandicoot
Though a specimen has not been uncovered since the early 20th century, pig-footed bandicoots were once found throughout central and south Australia and in Victoria.
The most well-documented behavior of Chaeropus ecaudatus was its locomotion.
Little is known about the reproductive cycle of C. ecaudatus, but from studying other bandicoots, it can be inferred that pig-footed bandicoots did not carry more than four young per littler.
www.javanio.info /bandicoot.html   (499 words)

  
 World of Animals - The animal-lexicon over Nasenbeutler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Toe of the front-feet is long and powerfully bekrallt; the 4 are only with the Schweinsfußnasenbeutler (Chaeropus ecaudatus).
At the rear-feet, the metarsus of the Stachelnasenbeutler (type Echymipera) becomes more narrowly as far as to the Schweinsfußnasenbeutler (type Chaeropus) over the Neuguineanasenbeutler (type Peroryctes), the Langnasenbeutler (type Perameles) and the Kaninchennasenbeutler (type Macrotis) and stretched.
Toe becomes longer and more powerfully on that occasion and finally carries the main-load of the body.
www.world-of-animals.de /animal-lexicon/tierart_Nasenbeutler.html   (688 words)

  
 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Chaeropus ecaudatus
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Chaeropus ecaudatus
Chaeropus ecaudatus was found in arid areas such as sclerophyll woodland, mallee, heath and grassland.
The main causes of this species' decline are thought to be through introduced predators (foxes and cats), overgrazing of habitat by domestic livestock, and competition from rabbits.
www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/4322/all   (331 words)

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