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	ADW: Chaeropus ecaudatus: Information
		Detailed measurements of the pig-footed bandicoot may not be completely reliable; however, the body length has been estimated at 230-260 mm, with a tail length of approximately 100-150 mm.
		These bandicoots were ground-living and probably used their sense of smell to find food on the ground, or in the holes they dug.
		Although Europeans eventually introduced rabbits, foxes, and cats (which are all competitors for the pig-footed bandicoot), this was not an immediate cause of their extinction; the decline of the pig-footed bandicoot began before these new fauna were introduced (Seebeck, 1990).
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Chaeropus_ecaudatus.html (1053 words)

	Bandicoots
		The northern brown bandicoot is common to the north of the Hawkesbury River in coastal areas and on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range.
		Bandicoots eat insects, earthworms, insect larvae and spiders, and also feed on plant tubers, roots and truffle-like fungi to supplement their diet.
		The foot of the mesh should be buried to a depth of at least 150 mm, and the fence should rise at least 500 mm above the ground.
	www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/Bandicoots (979 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Pig-footed bandicoot
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was a small, mostly herbivorous bandicoot of the arid and semi-arid plains of inland Australia.
		On closer examination, however, it became apparent that the Pig-footed Bandicoot was very unusual for a marsupial.
		Although listed by taxonomists within the family Peramelidae[?], its form is quite distinct from the true bandicoots and bilbies and if the species were not extinct it would probably have been placed in a separate family or subfamily by now.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/pi/Pig-footed_bandicoot?title=Cat_(ecology) (487 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The word bandicoot is an anglicised form of the Telugu word pandi-kokku, (loosely, pig-rat) which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat.
		First, the bandicoots of the New Guinean and far-northern Australian rainforests were deemed distinct from all other bandicoots, and these were grouped together in the separate family Peroryctidae.
		More recently, the bandicoot families were reunited in Peramelidae, with the New Guinean species split into four genera in two subfamilies, Peroryctinae and Echymiperinae, while the "true bandicoots" occupy the subfamily Peramelinae.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/bandicoot (255 words)

	bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The bandicoot is distinguished by two divergent marsupial characteristics: the presence of many incisor teeth, as in the flesh- and insect-eating marsupials, and a specialized foot structure in which the second and third toes are grown together, as in the herb-eating kangaroo.
		The bandicoot is generally nocturnal and hides during the day in a nest, hollow log, or crevice.
		Although the bandicoot digs holes in gardens while foraging, it is generally a useful animal, destroying mice and insect pests.
	library.thinkquest.org /26184/bandicoot.htm (205 words)

	Bandicoot
		A bandicoot is any of about 8 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the subfamily Peramelinae (the true bandicoots) of the family Peramelidae; or in a broader sense, any of about 21 species of fairly similar animals in the order Peramelemorphia.
		Classification within the Peramelemorphia used to be simple: there were thought to be two families in the order—the short-legged and mostly herbivorous bandicoots, and the longer-legged, more nearly carnivorous bilbies.
		In recent years, however, it has become clear that the rainforest bandicoots[?] of New Guinea and far-northern Australia are distinct from all other bandicoots, and these remain within the order but are now grouped together in the separate family Peroryctidae[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Bandicoot.html (159 words)

	Bandicoot, the Marsupial, including the koala bears, wallabies, and kangaroos.
		The bandicoot is a night-time creature, preferring to lie in nests of grass and sticks of the undergrowth during the day.
		The bandicoots are considered a delicacy by Aboriginal hunters, and often use the fl and white tails of rabbit bandicoots as personal jewelry or ornaments.
		Bandicoot babies are extremely tiny when born, somewhere around one-half inch with a weight of 1/100 of an ounce.
	www.light-science.com /articles1010.html (974 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bandicoot
		The word bandicoot is an anglicised form of the Telugu word pandi-kokku, (loosely, pig-rat) which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat.
		First, the bandicoots of the New Guinean and far-northern Australian rainforests were deemed distinct from all other bandicoots, and these were grouped together in the separate family Peroryctidae.
		More recently, the bandicoot families were reunited in Peramelidae, with the New Guinean species split into four genera in two subfamilies, Peroryctinae and Echymiperinae, while the "true bandicoots" occupy the subfamily Peramelinae.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bandicoot (270 words)

	Bandicoots more information
		Gould never saw a Pig-footed Bandicoot in real life, but from studying the skins collected by Gilbert and his familiarity with similar animals, Gould was able to sketch out the important and diagnostic features of the species.
		Little is known about the biology of the Pig-footed Bandicoot particularly as it became extinct from the early twentieth century when the spread of agriculture led to habitat loss and contributed to its decline.
		The original drawing of the Pig-footed Bandicoot was one of three drawings of Australian mammals by John Gould purchased by the Library at the Natural History Museum in 1991.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/online-ex/art-themes/drawingconclusions/more/bandicoots_more_info.htm (817 words)

	Threatened Species - Southern Brown Bandicoot
		The Southern Brown Bandicoot is represented by five subspecies across the southern portion of Australia and Queensland.
		The Southern Brown Bandicoot is a robust and streamlined marsupial with a long snout, small round ears, a short tail and large rump.
		The bandicoot is roughly a third to half the size of a rabbit.
	www.dehaa.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/bandicoot.html (1121 words)

	what is a bandicoot?
		The bandicoot is distinguished by two divergent marsupial characteristics: the presence of many incisor teeth, as in the flesh- and insect-eating marsupials, and a specialized foot structure in which the second and third toes are grown together, as in the herb-eating kangaroo.
		The bandicoot is generally nocturnal and hides during the day in a nest, hollow log, or crevice.
		Although the bandicoot digs holes in gardens while foraging, it is generally a useful animal, destroying mice and insect pests.
	crashfanz.itgo.com /wiab.htm (240 words)

	Pig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As its limbs suggest, it had a peculiar gait, being likened by one nineteenth-century naturalist as akin to ‘a broken-down hack in a canter, apparently dragging the hindquarters after it’.
		Gerard Krefft, who collected eight specimens near the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers in 1857, took a drawing of a specimen with him to show to Aborigines, to help explain that this was the animal he was anxious to procure.
		Unfortunately the only drawing he could obtain was of a specimen that had lost its tail, and his Aboriginal helpers brought him any number of common bandicoots with their tails screwed out, before finally arriving with two living pig-footed bandicoots.
	www.rainforestinfo.org.au /spp/Schouten/pig.htm (366 words)

	Lab's Alive
		Here is a description of the animal the head and body length of the Pig Footed bandicoot is about 25cm long and the tail is about 10 cm long.
		The Pig Footed Bandicoot's natural enemies are the fox, cat, dog, dingo and other large animals.
		This Bandicoot digs a burrow in the ground about 30 cm long, which it stays in all day and it eats at night.
	www.araratcc.vic.edu.au /labsalive/sos/lukeb.htm (223 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This species was previously placed in the family Peramelidae, along with the bilbies, as the subfamily Chaeropodinae by McKenna and Bell (1997).
		However its form is quite distinct from the true bandicoots and bilbies, and recent molecular evidence supports this distinction.
		A lesser known fact about the pig-footed bandicoot is that two live specimens were once recovered by a man named Gerard Krefft in the late 1800's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pig-footed_Bandicoot (620 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot - BIRD
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was a small, mostly herbivorous bandicoot of the arid and semi-arid plains of inland Australia.
		On closer examination, however, it became apparent that the Pig-footed Bandicoot was very unusual for a marsupial.
		Although listed by taxonomists within the family Peramelidae, its form is quite distinct from the true bandicoots and bilbies and if the species were not extinct it would probably have been placed in a separate family or subfamily by now.
	bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Pig-footed_Bandicoot (477 words)

	Australian Native Wildlife Gallery: Pig Footed Bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Unlike other perameloids (bandicoote and bilby species), the Pig-footed Bandicoot appears to have been quadrupedal (having all four limbs used for walking, having four feet).
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot inhabited the semiarid woodland with a dense understorey, shrubland and the tussock grasslands.
		Being nocternal, the Pig-footed Bandicoot would feed on grasses and during the daylight hours and sleep in a nest of twigs and leaves over a shallow scrape.
	www.abchsn.com /aus_wildlife/pig_footed_bandicoot.html (171 words)

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		Bandicoot A bandicoot is a small marsupial of Australia.
		Bandicoots have large territories and most of the time, the males have a larger one than the females.
		However the bandicoots eye- sight is not very good in day light and they need to rely on their sense of smell to find food.
	www.ri.net /schools/Narragansett/NES/atw/Australia/Bandicoot (735 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot
		The hind feet had an enlarged fourth toe with a heavy claw shaped like a tiny horses’ hoof, with the other toes being vestigial: only the fused second and third toes being useful, and that not for locomotion but for grooming.
		The cause of the extinction remains uncertain: neither of the two most destructive introduced exterminator species, the fox and the rabbit, had arrived in south-west Western Australia when the Pig-footed Bandicoot disappeared from that area.
		Feral cats were already common, which may offer an explanation; it is perhaps more likely that the decline was caused by a double habitat change.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pi/pig_footed_bandicoot.html (475 words)

	BANDICOOT,
		The bandicoot ranges in length from about 25 to 50 cm (about 10 to 20 in), depending on the species.
		Others, like the rabbit bandicoots, or bilbies, Macrotis, prefer a carnivorous diet, including small mammals and lizards; although it digs holes in gardens while foraging, it is generally a useful animal, destroying mice and insect pests.
		The bandicoot fights with its hind legs and bites only as a last resort.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ba020900.a#FWNE.fw..ba020900.a (259 words)

	The Long Nosed Bandicoot
		BANDICOOTS IN GENERAL The bandicoot has 2 features which place it apart from other Marsupials (mammals that carry their young in pouches) 1) Having many incisor teeth, as do all insect and flesh eating marsupials
		Bandicoots hop around like Kangaroos on their larger hind legs though they are much smaller ranging from 6 inches to 22 inches in length Depending on the species their fur can be orange, greyish, or brown or striped.
		Their coat is bristly and rough, and they have no bars on their rump like many other species of bandicoots do.
	www.angelfire.com /theforce/of_the_snake/bandicoot.html (401 words)

	Lesser Bilby
		Macrotis leucrura Â¥, Lesser Bilby Â¥, Chaeropus ecaudatus Â¥, Pig-footed Bandicoot Â¥,...
		Arid Species Recovery Work:...footed bandicoot, crescent nailtail wallaby, short-tailed hopping mouse, desert rat-kangaroo, central hare-wallaby, desert bandicoot and lesser bilby are now...
		Solenodon marcanoi, Prolagus sardus - Sardinian Pika, Chaeropus ecaudatus - Pig-footed Bandicoot, Macrotis leucura - Lesser Bilby, Perameles bougainville...
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/L/Lesser_Bilby.shtml (1924 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot Rises From the Dead -- Grimm 2007 (401): 1 -- ScienceNOW
		The pig-footed bandicoot was last spotted in 1901, but today researchers provided fresh evidence of its existence.
		Its name literally means "tailless pig-foot", a misnomer applied to a specimen that--unbeknownst to first describer--had lost its long, orange-brown tail in a taxidermic mishap.
		European encroachment in the latter half of the 19th century permanently altered the bandicoot's habitat, setting the creature on the path to extinction.
	sciencenow.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/2007/401/1?rss=1 (678 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot had a wide distribution in arid and semi-arid central and southern mainland Australia.
		Found in various habitats including open woodland, grassy plains and sand-dunes with tussock grass, the Pig-footed Bandicoot mostly ate plants.
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot was never abundant and it had disappeared from most areas by 1900, following degradation of vegetation by rabbits and livestock.
	www.samuseum.sa.gov.au /extinctions/pfbandi.htm (73 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Java NIO
		Pig-footed bandicoots grew to be about 230-260 millimeters in length, with a tail of 100-150 millimeters.
		These bandicoots lived on the ground and used their keen sense of smell to find food.
		When their time in the pouch has ended, baby bandicoots are left in the nest, and around 8-10 days later, they leave with their mother to forage or hunt.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/javanio/colophon.html (569 words)

	A lost Menagerie: during the past 500 years, countless animal species have gone extinct, some to loud lamentation, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The size of a kitten, it had long, slender limbs, with each hind foot bearing a single, elongated toe like a tiny horse's hoof, and each forefoot bearing two digits that resembled miniature cloven hoofs.
		Gerard Krefft, a member of the 1856-57 Blandowski expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, brought along a drawing of a specimen to show Aborigines that this was the animal he was eager to procure.
		Unfortunately, the only drawing he could obtain was of a specimen that had lost its tail, and his Aboriginal helpers brought him any number of common bandicoots with their tails removed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_110/ai_80061818 (973 words)

	Bandicoot
		The word bandicoot is an anglicised form of the
		New Guinea and far-northern Australia are distinct from all other bandicoots, and these remain within the order but are now grouped together in the separate family
		The function of this organ is probably to transfer nutrients from the mother; however the structure is small compared to those of the
	www.vetty.com /wpcd/wp/b/Bandicoot.htm (291 words)

	Range
		The Barred Bandicoot or Marl is extinct on the mainland and only found on an island off Western Australia.
		The Pig-footed Bandicoot is extinct and the Rabbit Bandicoot or Bilby is extinct in south-eastern Australia.
		Today, Rabbit Bandicoots are found only in small, scattered colonies in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.
	www.tiac.wa.gov.au /forum/2000/blair/Range.htm (252 words)

	Bandicoots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		of the bandicoots remain contentious and opinion varies, de-
		pendent on the significance given to dental or foot structure.
		Bandicoots are small marsupials with a long, pointed snout,
	www.theanimalencyclopedia.com /pg_0294.htm (266 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The big-footed Bandicoot was one of the strangest of all marsupials.
		Its hind feet had one hoof-like toe, while its front feet were like pigs trotters.
		The introduction of sheep, cattles, foxes and cats probably caused its extinction.
	www.megacom.net /~arkones/yowie/yff18.html (47 words)

	Bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The word bandicoot is an anglicised form of the
		New Guinea and far-northern Australia are distinct from all other bandicoots, and these remain within the order but are now grouped together in the separate family
		The function of this organ is probably to transfer nutrients from the mother; however the structure is small compared to those of the
	articles.industrialsoft.org /wp/b/Bandicoot.htm (254 words)

	Pig-footed Bandicoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Just which factors, such as the introduction of foxes, cattle, sheep, cats or changed fire regime was responsible for the extinction of this strange creature remains unclear.
		The pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) is listed as PRESUMED EXTINCT on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act.
		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.
	www.mt.net /~atelling/ANIMALS/BANDICOOT/Bandicoot_Site/Pig-footed_Bandicoot.html (121 words)

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