Bandicoots on the Brink: The Plight of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot While bilbies have captured the public’s imagination, some bandicoots are fighting quiet battles for survival. The Eastern ...

The nearly extinct eastern barred bandicoot, almost wiped out in the wild by predators, has been given a helping hand in Victoria.

Silly-looking or not, though, the zebra rat—the smallest bandicoot, more commonly known today as the western barred bandicoot—exhibited a genius for survival in the harsh outback, where its ...