tablelands or at sand dunes in central Australia, and was able to capture one with the assistance of a local Aboriginal woman and her dogs.The increasing rarity of the animal had it included on a list of prohibited exports, either live or skin, issued by the federal government in 1921.

Extinction

According to Indigenous Australian oral tradition, pig-footed bandicoots were rare even before the arrival of Europeans on the continent, and were

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