Desert Bilby
by Ellen

Look at my diorama.

I am a mammal.  I have a long furred tail, rabbit like ears and silky fur.  I eat fruit, fungi, insects and small lizards.  Foxes and feral cats eat me.

I have my babies in my pouch.  My baby is born alive.  Its eyes are closed and it has no fur.  It sucks from a teat in my pouch.  I look after my babies.

I live in a spiral burrow in the dry areas of Australia and I am in danger of extinction.

I have poor eyesight, but a strong sense of hearing.