Here are my answers and I suspect they are different from yours.
The bandicoot looks very similar to a rabbit because of converging evolution - they share similar lifestyles and have evolved similar mechanisms. Bandicoots and rabbits are mammalian analogs. There are other mammalian analogs; gliders and flying squirrels, marsupial moles and "ordinary" moles, and numbats and anteaters.
Here's an interesting and important fact - all marsupials are more closely related to each other than to any other mammals. That means bandicoots, gliders, marsupial moles and numbats are more closely related to each other than they are to their analogs "ordinary" mammals.
Thousands of years ago Aristotle tried to make sense of the complex
world of nature by classifying it all based on analogous similarities.
Here's a list of animals. Place them into three groups based upon
analogous similarities (and, in effect, follow in Aristotle's
footprints).
bats
butterflies
cattle
cod
dogs
dolphins
elephants
goldfish
hawks
mice
mosquitoes
trout
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