Isoodon macrourus

The brown bandicoot of North ( Isoodon macrourus ; in English: The Northern Brown Bandicoot ), is a Espèce of marsupial, a Bandicoot found in Australia and especially in New Guinea New Guinea. One does not find it inside the country where the environment is not easily livable.

Description

The length head-body is of 40 cm, that of the tail of 15 cm and it weighs 1,2 kg. The male measures 5 to 7 cm more than the female and weighs 0,5 kg more than it. It has a long peeling, beige on the back with black tasks. The belly is white. It has small round ears and a short nose. One can easily confuse it with the Isoodon obesulus , the brown Bandicoot of the South but they differs by their size (that of North being larger) and by their distribution (that of the South being found only on the southernmost coasts of Australia).

Distribution and habitat

One finds it only on the coasts North and Is Australia and the surrounding islands especially the New Guinea New Guinea. One does not find it inside the country where the environment is not easily livable. Their habitat depends on the season: during the dry season, he lives in the wooded areas and broussailleuses; during the rain season, it leaves and goes in the meadows where it can find a vegetation much more abundant.

Food

It is omnivorous. It nourishes insects, of ground worms, fruits and seeds. Sometimes, in period of food shortage, the female can devour its small. It has a good sense of smell which enables him to find its food even hidden under the ground but, driving out the night, it becomes him even an easy prey for the night cats, foxes and raptors.

Lifestyle

It builds nests on the ground, camouflaged well and impermeable, facts of heap of branches and brushwood with a cavity adapted to only one individual. Some bandicoots nests in hollow shafts or abandoned rabbit burrows.

Reproduction

It does not have a particular period of reproduction. Each range is from two to four small. the period of Gestation is 12.5 days and the small ones spend two months in the marsupium.

References

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