Bunyips are omnivorous, they feed on the plants that grow near they're billabong, but will attack and drag any prey under the water to eat, such as wombats, dingoes, kangaroos and feral camels.

The territory of a bunyip is not large, a female bunyip only lives within one billabong and the surrounding areas of up to a kilometre. Male Bunyips are known to wander in between two billabongs often these billabongs will house two of it's breeding partners which he will defend aggressively. Male bunyips should not be approached during mating seasons, and females should be avoided after the mating season as pregnant or mother bunyips will not tolerate anything in it's billabong.

How to hand a bunyip. The handling of a bunyip is not an easy task, first of all you should never approach a bunyip unless you have first been around a bunyip for at least a year, this will allow the bunyip to see you as no threat, slowly move closer to the bunyip as the year progresses, it may take slightly less then a year or more, one such bunyip i dubbed Davo. took a good two years before becoming approachable.

Never approach a bunyip before it has eaten or with any food on your person, this may trigger an attack. Once a bunyip has become temperate around you and allows you to approach it, you may try petting it. You must do this slowly and look for any signs of aggression, if successful, you have gained a friend, as long as it's eaten is not in heat, pregnant or with children, otherwise this bunyip should consider you not a threat.

do not think the same of the bunyip, if it becomes moody it may lash out towards you.