Australia Native Animals List
8 Mammals 16 Birds 8 Fishes 9 Reptiles 5 Amphibians 23 Arthropods.
Australia native animals list. To find out the category your animal is in please check the list below. The Kangaroo is Australias most iconic animal to see along with Koalas. The Australian government on Tuesday released a list of 113 animal species that need emergency intervention as devastating bushfires rip through their natural habitat.
Non-native animals also known as exotic or non-indigenous animals have been introduced to Australia from the time of the arrival of European settlers. Echidna are spiny anteaters and one of the egg-laying mammals and one of the rarest animals in the world. Kangaroos and koalas are two of the most talked about native animals of Australia with many people not calling it a trip down under until they have seen them both.
There are thousands of them so we dont carry a list. No but its close keep reading for the cutest of all the native Australian animals in my opinion anyway. The EPBC lists these Critically Endangered Australian Animals.
With more than fifty different native species of Kangaroos and wallabies in Australia its worth it. Marsupials appeared about 64-65 million years ago and are the second oldest type of mammal found in Australia. This bird is found in north and north-east Australia and south as far as Victoria southern New Guinea and is a vagrant in Western Australia and New Zealand.
One of Australias best-known and loved marsupials the kangaroo is a grazing herbivore with four distinct species. Red kangaroo eastern grey kangaroo western grey kangaroo and antilopine kangaroo. Luckily for you kangaroos and wallabies can easily be found in the wild in most rural parts of Australia.
Australia has some unusual members of the monotreme family including the platypus and echidnaIn fact when biologists first saw a platypus. There are around 386 mammal spices that are native to Australia. Koalas are symbol of Australia country but due to habitat destruction and hunting the animal is a vulnerable species.