They were both ex-Communists, both as crazy as bandicoots, and I adored them. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)
The chimera needed to scream and to belch (bandicoots are hard to digest), but he stymied himself remembering the incident he caused at a nearby house. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Present and former status of bandicoots in the Northern Territory. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I love bandicoots, simply because they are called bandicoots. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rustling sounds on the forest floor just below me indicate the presence of forest life - maybe bandicoots rabbit-sized kangaroo relatives or maybe brush turkeys or scrub fowl. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)
Which is probably why we didn't get to see half of the animals bloody bandicoots, hiding in the vastness. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)
For the first two days they got only two small bandicoots and found no water; they then turned back, and obtaining a little water in a hollow of the cliffs, left by the shower which had passed over, they halted under them to fish, and speared a sting-ray; this they had feasted on yesterday, and to-day came from the cliffs to look for us without any thing to eat at all. ❋ Unknown (2004)
After breakfast, Wylie said he thought he could catch some bandicoots, by firing the scrub near the sand-hills, and went out for an hour or two to try, but came back as he went. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the morning then, while Lorra his gin went out to dig roots, Rashleigh would go and hunt for bandicoots or kangaroo rats. if he met with a goanna or an opossum, he would follow him up any lofty tree, cutting notches in the bark with his stone tomahawk to enable him to ascend it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Although across a narrow channel marsupials are plentiful, there is no representative of that typical Australian order here, and the Dunk Island blacks have no legends of the existence of either kangaroos, wallabies, kangaroo rats or bandicoots in times past. ❋ Unknown (2003)
These nets were laid by the natives in narrow channels to catch fish, as well as in the tracks of small animals, such as rats and bandicoots, for the purpose of catching them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The zoo made me sad at some point -- some of the animals definitely got shafted with the "low-income housing" -- I remember the skunks, porcupines, raccoons, bandicoots, coatis, etc. were all stuck into one structure with little cubicles. ❋ Kevynwight (2003)
They were an odd assortment, from the more familiar rats and mice to bandicoots and phalangers. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1984)
Wild pigs and tigers scratched their skins against the posts in the jungle, and porcupines and bandicoots burrowed them out of the ground. ❋ Various (N/A)
'As far as I can see,' he said, 'if we can't find somethin' better than stone-deaf hedgehogs, peevish parrots, and funkin 'bandicoots we may as well give way to despair.' ❋ Norman Lindsay (1924)
For what with low puddin'-thieves disguising themselves as firemen, and low Wombats sneakin 'our Puddin' while we're helpin 'to put out fires, not to speak of all the worry and bother of tryin' to get information out of parrots and bandicoots an 'hedgehogs, why, it's enough to make a man suspect his own grandfather of bein' a puddin'-snatcher. ' ❋ Norman Lindsay (1924)
