Early in May, Mark Garkaklis and Barbara Wilson videoed this Southern Brown Bandicoot foraging on the Aireys Inlet Coastal Walk in the late afternoon.
Southern Brown Bandicoot
Mark says this is crepuscular activity – foraging at twilight at certain times of the year. They eat native truffles, tubers and insects. There were so many new diggings after the April rains we assumed that they were after truffles. Our native truffles are small compared to European gourmet truffles but clearly much appreciated by bandicoots.
Watch the video here.