The unlikely gourmands are pilfering thousands of dollars of farmed black truffles a night, but a PhD student has been working to get them to change their ways.
"We had these little patches where there were odour points and the bandicoots would think βthat smells goodβ, and they would dig there, and get nothing,β Banks said.
No wonder some of them around here are so petulant
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The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffle [Sydney Morning Herald]
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No wonder some of them around here are so petulant
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