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Long-nosed Bandicoot

Parameles nasuta


Found in wet sclerophyll forest, scrub, rank grass and
suburban gardens.  Nocturnal and
crepuscular, digs in top soil for invertebrates and tubers. Issues a
characteristic alarm call when disturbed – a loud sneezed “ke”

A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Menkhorst & Knight

Classifications: Mammal
Family: Peramelidae (Bandicoots)
Information sources: Photos taken at Strathdickie by Graham Armstrong:

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