What are some plants on Uluru?

Answer 1

No animals actually live on Uluru. Uluru is a rock, and only in the times after rain, when the numerous pools atop Uluru can hold water, do tiny crustaceans hatch from their eggs, then reproduce to lay more eggs. These are of the species fairy or brine shrimp (Anostraca), shield or tadpole shrimp(Notostraca) and clam shrimp (Conchostraca). When the water evaporates, the eggs lie dormant until the next rains.

There are numerous animals found around Uluru, however. These include the following:

Mammals:

• Spinifex hopping mouse
• Rufous Hare-wallaby
• Mulgara
• Dingo
• Brush-tailed possum
• Red kangaroo

Birds:

• Crimson chat
• Galah
• Painted Furetail
• Wedge-tailed eagle
• Crested pigeon

Reptiles:

• Thorny devil
• Desert skink
• Woma python
• Perentie (goanna)
• Mulga snake

Answer 2

There are no plants on Uluru itself. Unlike Australia's other major monolith and the largest inselberg in the world, Mt Augustus, Uluru is completely bald.

However, there are many plants found within the Uluru-Kata-Tjuta National Park, where Uluru is located. These can be found at the related link below.

Answer 3

A great variety of animal life is found near Uluru. The most common are snakes, lizards and birds, but several dozen mammals a listed as living in the area also. The dingo, rufous hare-wallaby, black-footed rock wallaby, red kangaroo, golden bandicoot, mulgara, spinifex hopping-mouse, Gould's wattled bat, burrowing bettong, bilby, mala and the common brushtail possum are mammals which are all found in the area around Uluru. The Itjaritjari, or Southern marsupial mole, is a most unusual marsupial also found there, and it is not actually related to true moles at all.

Birds include the budgerigar, zebra finch, brown falcon, grey-headed honeyeaters, Australian ringneck parrot, willy wagtail, splendid fairy-wren, red-capped robin, rainbow bee-eater, red-backed kingfisher, Major Mitchell cockatoo, emu and pied butcherbird.

Reptiles include the Perentie, blue-tongue lizard, mulga snake, woma python, sand goanna, three-lines knob-tailed gecko and thorny devil.

There are even four species of water-holding frogs which are adapted to surviving in the desert.

Answer 4

The only creatures that live on Uluru are tiny crustaceans that lay their eggs in the crevices on the rock's surface. These are fairy or brine shrimp, crab shrimp and tadpole shrimp. During rain, the crevices atop the rock fill with water, and the eggs, which are able to tolerate long periods without water, hatch. The shrimp Lifecycle continues.

Answer 5

Although regarded as a semi-arid region, the Kata Tjuta National Park supports over 400 different species of plants. Some of them are:

• Acacia such as the common mulga, Uluru mulga and witchetty bush
• Eucalyptus such as the desert blood wood, river red gum and blue mallee
• Desert oak
• Grasses such as spinifex; particularly soft spinifex, hard spinifex, porcupine grass and feather top spinifex
• Honey grevillea
• Small shrubs such as silver tail or foxtail
• Succulents such as pigweed
• Ferns such as the woolly cloak fern
• Desert quandong