https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk By: Arianna Figueroa en-us 2021-12-09 17:43:03 UTC 2021-12-10 17:41:17 UTC hello@padlet.com afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938846499 The name of this species is the Pig-footed Bandicoot. The scientific name is the marsupial.]]> 2021-12-09 18:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938846499 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938861302 Their Habitat was in grassy plains and grassy places that are located in the southern and western part of Australia.The Pig-footed Bandicoot lived western New South Wales and Victoria. They mostly lived in desert areas. ]]> 2021-12-09 18:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938861302 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938874776 The pig-footed bandicoot got its name from the discovery of a specimen that had lost its tail in a mishap during its life. The describer of this animal assumed it didn't have a tail, but it actually had the longest tail of all bandicoots. The mistake was not noticed until it was too late to rename it.]]> 2021-12-09 18:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938874776 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938887131 The Pig-footed Bandicoot was the most herbivorous of all the Bandicoots. Even though captive specimens were fond of meat and Aborigines said that they ate grasshoppers, ants and termites. ]]> 2021-12-09 18:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938887131 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938898858 The pig-footed bandicoot possessed 8 teats, but they didn't carry more than four young per litter. Females had a very well developed pouch which opened posteriorly. Bandicoots, in general, have a very short pregnancy period, around 12 days from conception to giving birth. ]]> 2021-12-09 18:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1938898858 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940792358 Aboriginal people knew about these animals for around 65,000 years before the marsupials were first recorded by Europeans in 1838. It is LatePliocene to Early Pleistocene in age (2.47–2.92 Ma).]]> 2021-12-10 17:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940792358 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940801424 The pig-footed bandicoot is know to have gone exstinct at some time in the 1950's, due to the combination of European arrival and land-use change that probably altered the marsupial's habitatThe decline of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot is primarily due to predation from foxes and loss of habitat.]]> 2021-12-10 17:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940801424 afigueroa4932 https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940816377 The pig-footed bandicoot had a lot of speed, so they could have ran to survive. They also could have had self defense so the don't get hurt. Lastly they could have hidden so prey wouldn't have took them.]]> 2021-12-10 17:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/afigueroa4932/98qmz5lz5eiaq8zk/wish/1940816377