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What plants and animals are indigenous to the region in Australia?
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∙ 8y ago
Australia has many native animals which are endemic to Australia, meaning they are not found anywhere else. The most common 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) The tree kangaroo is not endemic, as more species are found on the island of New Guinea. Some wallaby colonies have been introduced overseas, so they are not endemic Any more.
- koala
- wombat
- gliders
- potoroo
- bandicoot, including the bilby
- quokka
- quoll
- Tasmanian Devil
- phascogale
- dunnart
- bettong
- nabarlek
- numbat
- antechinus
- native hopping mouse
There are some placental mammals which are endemic to Australia, such as some species of bats; bush rats; and native hopping mice.
Monotremes (egg laying mammals) are also native to Australia, but only the platypus is endemic.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoAustralia's most common indigenous 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
Monotremes (egg laying mammals) are also indigenous to Australia. These include the platypus and the short-beaked echidna.
Indigenous 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 indigenous 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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