Mardos are carnivorous marsupials that move with darting motions and are ferocious feeders, biting the fingers of any handlers.
    They live both in trees and on the ground and can be quite cheeky in their habits, at times entering homes.
    They live on invertebrates, small mammals, birds, reptiles and even flowers and nectar.
    Mating is a rather violent affair after which the male, like phascogales, dies.
    They are small, between a mouse and a rat in size, and difficult to see, but spotlighting may reveal them if you are lucky.

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