Yes, they are. The bandicoots of Australia and New Guinea are rat-like marsupials that root around in the earth for their food, using their claws and long, pointed snouts to dig out insects and worms. The combination of their appearance and behaviour has earned them their common name, bandicoot, which means 'pig-rat'.

　　Bandicoots run with sudden and frequent changes of direction. Like kangaroos, their hindlegs are more developed than their forelegs, and each hindfoot ends in five toes. The three inner ones are long, while the two outermost ones are rudimentary. The extinct pig-footed bandicoot was specialised for running, and rested its weight on one toe of the forefoot and two toes of the hindfoot, but the surviving species are not so highly adapted.

　　The body length of bandicoots, excluding the tail, varies from 15cm in the mouse bandicoot to the 55cm or more of the giant bandicoot. All species are nocturnal, spending the day under cover and foraging at night for their food. Their diet includes a variety of insects, spiders and other small invertebrates, as well as fungi and roots.