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Australia typically has similar insects found elsewhere in the world, such as native bees, beetles, ants, termites, flies, moths, butterflies and so on.
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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∙ 13y agoLet's just say... There's a lot. Depends on what you mean by "small insects".
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What are carnivorous marsupials that eat insects and small vertebrate found in Australia known as?
Carnivorous marsupials are known as dasyurids.
What kind of leaves do stick insects eat?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they eat small bugs?
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Snakes, lizards, and several species of insects can be found in both China and Australia.
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Fleas.
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Flys, No seems, uhmm a lot of just small insects. Found mostly in swampy areas are the best spot..
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Are dibblers found in Australia?
Yes. The dibbler is a small, carnivorous marsupial found only in Australia. It is restricted to old-growth mallee heath in the coastal areas of southwestern Western Australia.
Which small continent found between Antarctica and the equator?
Australia is the small continent in between the Antarctica and the equator
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Where is the insect spitfire habitat?
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Animal beginning with q?
quailquokkaquoll
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they are called fruit flies.
