They live in Australia and New Guinea. The Bandicoot eats mostly insects,spiders and worms,lizards,roots and bulbs. The bandicoot sleeps during the day. They are rare or extinct in some areas. Rabbit Bandicoots are found only in small, scattered colonies.
Bandicoots have a combing toe on each hind foot.
They groom themselves with this and scratches at ticks and lice which tend to infect them.