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What are the names of all the animals that are native to Australia?
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∙ 9y ago
Small animals native to Australia include a variety of marsupials and placental mammals.
Small native placental mammals include the 80 or so species of bats, as well as numerous bush rats.
Small native marsupials include the phascogale, musky-rat kangaroo, planigale, kowari, ningaui, bilby, bandicoot, dunnart, antechinus and bettong.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoAustralia's most common native animals are marsupials. These are the pouched mammals (actually, not all marsupials are pouched) and include:
- some sixty species of kangaroo, including wallaroo, potoroo, pademelon, rufous rat-kangaroo and wallaby
- koala
- wombat
- possum (not opossum)
- glider
- potoroo
- bandicoot, including the bilby
- quokka
- quoll
- Tasmanian Devil
- phascogale
- dunnart
- cuscus
- bettong
- numbat (not a pouched marsupial, but a marsupial nonetheless)
- antechinus
- native hopping mouse
There are many marine mammals, including dolphins, and the very unique dugong, or sea-cow. The only placental mammals native to Australia are bats, of which there are over 80 species, and native hopping mice (rodents, not marsupials), of which there are several species. Dingoes are not truly native, not having originated here.
Monotremes (egg laying mammals) are also native to Australia. These include the platypus and the short-beaked echidna.
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∙ 9y agoit is impossible to list every species that is native to Australia. The following list gives a general overview.
Australia's most common native animals are marsupials. These are the pouched mammals (some pouches are nothing more than a flap of skin) and include:
- some sixty species of kangaroo, including wallaroo, potoroo, pademelon, rufous rat-kangaroo and wallaby (note: the rat-kangaroo is quite different to the kangaroo rat of North America)
- koala
- wombat
- possum (not opossum)
- glider
- potoroo
- bandicoot, including the bilby
- quokka
- quoll
- Tasmanian Devil
- phascogale
- dunnart
- cuscus
- bettong
- nabarlek
- numbat
- antechinus
- native hopping mouse
There are many marine mammals, including dolphins, and the very unique dugong, or sea-cow. The only placental mammals native to Australia are bats, of which there are over 80 species, bush rats and native hopping mice (rodents, not marsupials), of which there are several species. Dingoes are not truly native, not having originated here: they came with the Aborigines thousands of years ago, and for this reason are not necessarily considered to be truly native.
Monotremes (egg laying mammals) are also native to Australia. These include the platypus and the short-beaked echidna.
Native birds include:
- emu and southern cassowary, Australia's only Flightless Birds
- kookaburra
- budgerigar
- magpie
- lyrebird
- brush turkey
- friar bird
- little penguin
- bowerbird
- many varieties of lorikeets, rosellas and parrots, including the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Gang-Gang Cockatoo, corella, mulga parrot and the Galah
- Australia's most well-known native eagle is the Wedge-tailed Eagle. It is considered to be in the same "superspecies" as the Golden Eagle, but has some distinguishing characteristics (especially the shape of the tail).
There is a wide variety of native reptiles uniquely adapted to the country, such as:
- Thorny Devil
- Blue-tongue Lizard
- Frill-necked lizard
- goanna
- native geckos
- Saltwater or Estuarine crocodile
- Australia is also home to many of the world's most venomous snakes, such as the Inland Taipan, Death Adder, Mulga or King Brown, Red Bellied Black, Black Tiger, Copperhead, Gwardar, Collett's, Fierce, Eastern Tiger and Eastern Brown.
There are no native species of toads, but plenty of native frogs, such as green tree frogs, corroboree frogs and pobblebonks.
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∙ 12y ago- Kangaroo
- Koala
- Tasmanian devil
- Wombat
- Bilby
- Platypus
- Echidna
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∙ 11y agokangaroos, wombats, palatypuss's theres quite a few
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∙ 8y agoSome Australian animals include the platypus, emu, wallaby, kangaroo, wombat and koala.
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∙ 13y agoKangaroos, echidnas, wombats, Tasmanian devils, emus, koalas, and plenty more.
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Which animals native to Australia can fly the longest?
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What country do these animals inhabit wombatdingo kookaburra and wallaby?
These animals all inhabit the country of Australia. The wombat and wallaby are native marsupials. The kookaburra is a native bird, while the dingo is a placental mammal which was brought to Australia by the Aborigines around 4000 years ago.
What animals are banned for hunting in Australia?
All native wildlife in Australia is protected, and may not be hunted. At times, farmers are permitted a licence to cull kangaroo numbers, but th hunting of any native animal in Australia is illegal without a licence.
Kangaroos koalas and platypuses a a few of the unique animals that are native to which continent?
These creatures are all endemic to Australia.
People shouldn't be allowed to kill Australian animals?
All Australian native animals are protected by law. Cats, dogs, rabbits and foxes roaming the bush should be shot on sight. These introduced animals are the greatest threat to Australia's native wildlife.
Is a Kangaroo from Australia?
All animals are native to somewhere. Kangaroos are native to Australia, while tree kangaroos are native to Australia and the island of New Guinea, which comprises the countries of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya (Indonesia).
Where would you go to find both monotremes and marsupials?
Australia's native animals are all marsupials (apart from 80 species of bat, native mice, and the dingo which is not truly native). Australia also has two of the three monotreme species that exist in the world (the platypus and short-beaked echidna).
What are all the animal names?
This is an impossible question to answer, as there are millions of animals in the world, and a lot of their names are unpronounceable, as they were discovered in other countries and so have native names. In fact, scientists are still discovering new animals in the world, so this answer would have to be updated every week or so.
