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The rabbit bandicoot or bilby is the single surviving species of its family, Thylacomyidae. It lives in the arid scrubland of central and NW Australia. Sleeping in its burrow during the heat of the day, it emerges at night to feed on termites and beetle larvae.

Small marsupial mammal inhabiting Australia and New Guinea. There are about 11 species, family Peramelidae. Bandicoots are rat- or rabbit-sized and live in burrows. They have long snouts, eat insects, and are nocturnal. A related group, the rabbit bandicoots or bilbies, is reduced to a single species that is now endangered and protected by law.



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