I live in a little town in Tasmania: last night we had dinner at the local pub. Walking home across the footy oval, we noticed a little creature browsing under the cypress trees - a bandicoot!

An eastern barred bandicoot, to be precise: http://www.zoo.org.au/sites/default.....?itok=EcOcdgYQ (Ours tend to be grey-whiter than this, btw). They're only small - about the size of a small rabbit.

This little fellow was quite happy to graze away while we were less than a metre away from him.

Then we saw another just outside our house, just around the corner from the oval. This one a bit more wary.

I'm glad we keep the cat indoors at night, now that I know they're about so much.