Bandicoots are non-climbing, nocturnal, marsupial mammals found mainly in Australia and New Guinea. Marsupial means babies are born incompletely developed and live in a pouch, typically on their mother’s belly. However, the baby bandicoots live in a pouch that opens at the back so that the pouch does not fill with dirt while the mother digs for insects and seeds.
Baby bandicoots are only about 1 cm when they are born and may take about three months to live independently. Let’s hope the baby bandicoots grow up because if their mother cannot find enough food, an adult female bandicoot may have no alternative except to eat her baby.
