Bandicoot visits neighbours place, caught on Wildlife Camera

My neighbour noticed some weird conical diggings in their lawn, so we decided to put out the wildlife camera to see if we could find out what animal was making them. It was a Long-Nosed Bandicoot. Long-nosed Bandicoots are nocturnal marsupials and around 40 centimetres long and have sandy or grey-brown fur with a long pointy nose. They dig up the soil with the front legs and then use their snout to sniff out and remove their food from the soil. They’re opportunistic omnivores, eating both plants and animals, from insects, insect larvae, beetles, cockroaches, lizards, mice and snails, to fungi, grass seeds, berries and fruit. They are also known to eat Funnel-web spiders. They seem to ‘grunt’ happily when the chance upon food, and make a shrill squeak when disturbed.
Bandicoots play an important ecological role in turning over soil, which increases the rate of leaf litter decomposition, soil production and nutrient cycling they also play an important role in dispersing fungi spores.
They have a pregnancy period of only 12-13 days - one of mammal's shortest known gestation periods, producing up to four litters per year with an average of two to four offspring per litter and they take three months to live independently. If food is scarce, the female bandicoot may eat her young! Like the wombat, they have a backwards-facing pouch so they don't fill it with dirt while digging up their food.
Bandicoots are territorial. The female will stay in a relatively small area to forage and mate, but males have a bigger territory of up to 7 hectares. A male patrols and marks his territory with a scent gland behind his ears. If another male is spotted, the two fight by standing on their back legs and clawing at each other’s shoulders and backs, often throwing each other over the shoulder.
Owls, quolls, foxes, cats and dogs are predators of Bandicoots. Habitat loss is another factor that is impacting Bandicoot numbers.
Since setting up the camera I have also noticed signs of Bandicoots on our property and another neighbour's property.
If you love a formal, manicured garden but also have bandicoots around, you may want to set aside part of your garden for the bandicoots to enjoy, full of logs, native plants with a dense understory, and with no chemicals or pesticides. You can even put chicken wire around or over veggie gardens to keep bandicoots out. The wire should be at least 50 cm high and dug into the soil to a depth of 15 cm. You may also want to have an open compost heap or thick mulch for bandicoots in a specific part of your garden so that they don’t go looking for food in the formal part.