Giant Sheep Dogs to Protect Endangered Bandicoots

Giant Dogs and Bandicoots have been developing an unlikely animal relationship. Zoos Victoria

In a historic moment in Australian conservation history, two giant, guardian dogs are protecting a recently released population of 20 gravely threatened bandicoots, by ignoring them.

With a little help from the dogs and some sheep in the grasslands of Skipton in Victoria’s southwest, the embattled native species of Eastern Barred Bandicoots have a chance to come off the threatened species list.