Panruedi's+report+on+an+endangered+Australian+animal

= Panruedi's report on an endangered Australian animal ...= The Greater Bilby is a kind of bandicoot.It is a marsupial.The Greater Bilby can be found in the Tanami Desert Great Sandy Desert and Kimberley areas of Western Australia.

The Greater Bilby has silverly grey in colour and white on its tummy and chest.The Greater Bilby has a long tail and the fur is silky.It has long ears and pointed.The Greater Bilby has strong front legs for burrows, digging to find some food and has good hearing ears.The Greater Bilby has big dark eyes but has poor eyesight.

The Greater Bilby likes to eat insects seeds, fungi and fruit.The Greater Bilby is behaviours nocturnal and generally don't group together.

The females give for two young usually and are born after a very short pregnancy so the young is very small and hardly strong.They then stay in there mothers pouch for around 75 days feeding and sleeping until there developed enough to take care them selves.

The introduction of foreign animals has impacted the Bilbies to an extent considered vulnerable in all states but for Queensland where they have gone further to put it as endangered.There burrows are destroyed by live stock.They and rabbits also compete for food against the Bilbies further more they are preyed upon by feral cats and foxes.