Perameles nasuta

8 Long-nosed Bandicoot at Booth, ACT

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Identification history

	Perameles nasuta	29 Mar 2022	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	24 Mar 2022	heatherb1997

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MichaelMulvaney noted:

29 Mar 2022

This is a new recorded location for this species, which is rare in the ACT. The nearest other recorded location in in the middle of the Orroral Valley. Perhaps one species that is benefiting from a post-fire habitat?

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DonFletcher wrote:

24 Mar 2022

Hi Heather, First, we can be sure this is no macropod, possum, glider nor exotic mammal. So that narrows the possibilities a lot. What is the scale here? Is that a cork tile 30cm square? Its easier to identify stuff from camera trap pics when you are going through the full set so you know already what some of the species look like - how big an antechinus looks, and a BTP, etc. If my first guess at scale is right, this would be an animal about the size of a ring-tailed possum, rather than a small mammal, but my first impression is often wrong. So if the tile is 30cm, maybe its a bandicoot, but if so the head must have been foreshortened somehow because the snout is too short for either SBB or LNB. First pic was at midnight, 2nd at 2am and third 12 sec later, suggesting there may be more photos - is that the case? A bandicoot's tail is about one third of head-body length, so either this is something else completely (eg Antechinus if I got the scale wrong) or head body is foreshortened a bit.

DonFletcher wrote:

29 Mar 2022

Hi Heatherb1997, I have now been able to look at this on a much better monitor and I think it is Perameles nasuta, a Long Nosed Bandicoot. That is a significant record (first in this area) but would have been much more so if you had found the elusive SBBs.
I'd be very interested to hear more about your study if you are Ok w that. Email don.fletcher@emailme.com.au or mobile 0428 48 9990.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

29 Mar 2022

I also asked Renee Brawata about this one who said - "Yep I’d say definitely a LNB, but a sub-adult, given the head shape."

jks wrote:

1 Apr 2022

This is so cool! Well done Heatherb1997!!!

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1 Abundance
27 Jan 2022 02:00 AM Recorded on
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Unknown Gender
Alive / healthy Animal health

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Perameles nasuta Scientific name
Long-nosed Bandicoot Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-Invasive
Up to 1686.75m Recorded at altitude
81 images trained Machine learning
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