Woylie Walk
Whiteman Park has a Woodland Reserve and Friday nights they have Woylie Walks. We booked our tour and were frantic to get to it in time, but made it with some time to spare.
We saw woylies and bandicoots.
Bandicoots are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. They are endemic to Australia.
![The word itself is often used as a common name for any of them, and is an anglicised form of the Telugu word పందికొకà±à°•à± (pandi-kokku), loosely, pig-rat.[1] which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat.](http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/bandicoot2.jpg)
The word itself is often used as a common name for any of them, and is an anglicised form of the Telugu word (pandi-kokku), loosely, pig-rat, which originally referred to the unrelated Indian Bandicoot Rat.
The woylie (Bettongia penicillata), also known as the brush-tailed bettong, is an extremely rare small marsupial that belongs to the genus Bettongia. It is endemic to Australia. Formerly it had two separate subspecies, B. p. ogilbyi and the now extinct B. p. penicillata.
It was a bit of a creepy night to be walking around the woods looking for small rat like animals. 🙂
After our walk, we got to feed them and watch them eat!
