Southern Brown Bandicoot

• Structural Adaptations

  • Brown fur: camouflage
  • Long pointed nose: Sniff out prey
  • Long pointed teeth: Allows it to grab and bite through food
  • Strong digging claws: For digging out underground prey
  • Rear-facing pouch: Prevents dirt from entering female's pouch when digging
• Status


  Endangered
• Threats

  • vegetation clearing
  • fire regimes
  • habitat loss
  • fragmentation/isolated populations
• Habitat 


  Heathland, shrubland, healthy open forest and woodland
• Protection Strategies

  • planting more native species
  • keeping pets indoors
  • limiting fires and vegetation clearing
• Behavioural Adaptations

  • Nocturnal/Crepuscular: keep out of the sun
  • Aggressive/territorial: defend home from other bandicoots
• Physiological Adaptations

  • Short gestation period: fast reproduction
• Habitat: Abiotic Features

  • Sandy soil: Allows SBB to dig for invertebrates
  • Acidic pH soil: Plant growth
  • Soil moisture: Plant and insect diet
  • Temperature: Affects physiological processes and activity, reproduction
  • Easterly aspect
• Habitat: Biotic Features

  • High leaf litter coverage on ground: nesting
  • Ground-dwelling invertebrates: diet
  • 0.2-1m dense shrub: nesting and shelter
  • Xanthorrhoea: nesting and shelter
  • Native/Exotic plant species