Eastern barred bandicoot By Amelia Eastern Barred bandicoot

Eastern barred bandicoot By Amelia

Eastern Barred bandicoot Foxes and feral cats and dogs eat the bandicoot. Victoria zoo is helping by opening a breeding program for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot

Young A young is born between may and December. After the young climbs out of the mothers pouch it stays with the mother for a week. A young weighs 640 grams. Juvenile The juvenile eats after sunset. It Eats berries , grass , moss and seeds also slugs , insects. They live in simple recesses that are shallow under ground. Adult When the adult leaves home , she sets off to find a mate to mate with. They mate between June and February in Tasmanian. The female lays up to 3 to 4 litters each one has 1 to 4 babies. The female can give birth to about 16 young's a year. True fact. . . A bandicoot only lives for three years.

• The breeding program helps the eastern barred bandicoot , breed more babies by keeping them in a enclosure so they don’t get eaten by foxes and feral cats and dogs. So the amount of Eastern barred bandicoot increase.

• I would say the Adult because she or he has to look after the babies and feed them and make sure they don’t get eaten by predators or get hungry.

• If we didn’t have science we would only have half the amount of the information we have now. Science helps us to understand what is happening to the Eastern barred bandicoot , so that we can help the bandicoot by killing all of the animal that are predators to the bandicoot and habitat loss to stop. BY Amelia