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BANDICOOT

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BANDICOOT , any See also:

animal of the marsupial genus Perameles, which is the type of a See also:family Peramelidae. The See also:species, about a dozen in number, are widely distributed over See also:Australia, See also:Tasmania, New See also:Guinea and several of the adjacent islands. They are of small See also:size and live entirely on the ground, making nests of dried leaves, grass and sticks in hollow places and forming burrows in which they pass a See also:great See also:part of the See also:day. Though feeding largely on See also:worms and See also:insects they ravage gardens and See also:fields, on which See also:account they are detested by the colonists. The name is often extended to the family. BANDICOOT-See also:RAT, the Anglo-See also:Indian name for a large rat (Nesocia bandicota), inhabiting See also:India and See also:Ceylon, which See also:measures from 12 to 15 in. to the See also:root of the tail, while the tail itself measures from 11 to 13 in. The name is said to be a corruption of the Telegu pandi-koku. It differs from typical rats of the genus See also:Mus by its broader incisors, and the less distinct cusps on the molars. Other species of the genus are found from See also:Palestine to See also:Formosa, as well as in central See also:Asia. The typical species frequents villages, towns and cultivated grounds all over India and Ceylon, but is specially See also:common in the See also:south of the See also:peninsula.

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