Bilbies use their acute sense of smell to find food underground.
Bilbies do not migrate.
No. Bilbies are not aggressive.
Yes Bilbies do have pouches.
Rabbits are the bilby's primary competitor for food, and one of the main reasons why they are so critically endangered.
Foxes and cats, which have been introduced to Australia, are one of the main things hurting the bilbies. They successfully hunt bilbies, and their introduction resulted in the extinction of the Lesser bilby. Only the species known as the Greater bilby remains.Rabbits also hurt the bilbies indirectly. Their biggest competition for food has come from the introduced rabbit, Which completely decimate vast areas of native vegetation. Rabbits also burrow where the bandicoots burrow, but their burrows tend to cause the collapse of the bilbies' burrows, resulting in the bilbies being trapped, and suffocating.Man hurts the bilbies by impacting on their habitat. Bilbies used to be found throughout southern Australia, but as European settlement spread further out in search of good agricultural land, bilbies were pushed back into the desert.
Baby bilbies are known as joeys.
Bilbies are marsupials. Rabbits are not.
When frightened, bilbies hide in the burrows they dig.
Yes. Dingoes are predators of bilbies.
Yes. Bilbies are nocturnal.
No. Bilbies dig burrows in the ground.