LONG-NOSED POTOROO

I forget where this photograph was taken, may have been captive or in the wild; other photographs taken in the wild in NSW are on an old computer waiting to be recovered, and then will be posted.

60                   LONG NOSED POTOROO              Potoroos tridactylus

AUSTRALIA                

Solitary; non-territorial; nocturnal; elusive. Omnivore: eats underground fruiting bodies of fungi, roots, fruits, flowers, seeds, insects and their larvae. Two subspecies: tridactylous, found in southern highlands of NSW and SW Victoria; apicalis, found in Tasmania.