My night with the bandicoot

I started the bushwalk only minutes before sunset. As I entered the wildlife enclosure I was carefully watched by a mob of kangaroos. The pelicans couldn't care less however. The real reason I was here was because there was a chance I might get to encounter a small endangered marsupial, the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii . I hadn't found it on my previous three visits (not that I was…