What animals live in the Australian rainforests?

Answer 1

Australian outback animals, birds and reptiles include:

• kangaroo
• emu
• goanna
• bilby
• inland taipan
• mulga parrot
• budgerigar
• dunnart
• death adder

Answer 2

Very few animals live in the Australian deserts, as there is insufficient vegetation to sustain them. However, some animals which live in semi-arid deserts are:

• goanna, including the perentie
• red kangaroo
• bilby
• thorny devil
• various species of native geckos
• numerous snakes such as the taipan and death adder
• bearded dragon

Answer 3

All Australian native animals are protected by law. Therefore, the only ones you can eat are the non-native animals, such as rock pigeons, brumbies, feral pigs, rabbits and hares, water buffalo and camels.

Answer 4

There are many animals and birds which live in the Australian rainforests. Bear in mind that rainforests in the north of the country are tropical rainforests, and they range to cool-temperate rainforests in Tasmania, so the species vary.

Australian rainforest creatures include the following (but this is not an exhaustive list):

Mammals:

• Lumholtz tree kangaroo
• platypus (not restricted to the rainforest)
• musky rat-kangaroo
• Red-legged pademelon
• Herbert River ringtail possum
• Striped possum
• Lemuroid ringtail possum
• Green ringtail possum
• Sugar glider (not restricted to rainforsts)
• Mahogany glider
• Long-nosed bandicoot
• Northern brown bandicoot (not restricted to rainforests)
• Yellow-footed antechinus
• Giant white-tailed uromys

Birds: (Most of these are not restricted to the rainforest)

• southern cassowary
• satin bowerbird
• Suberb lyrebird
• Albert's lyrebird
• brush turkey
• Suberb fruit-dove
• Fig parrot
• Wompoo fruit-dove
• Crimson rosella
• Regents bowerbird
• Blue-winged kookaburra
• Fairy-wren
• honeyeater (several varieties)
• Pardalote (several varieties)
• Eastern whipbird
• Bellbird

Amphibians:

• green tree frog
• green-eyed frog
• striped marsh frog
• nursery frog
• northern red-eyed tree frog
• northern barred frog
• giant tree frog

Reptiles: (most of these are not restricted to the rainforest)

• green tree snake
• leaf-tailed gecko
• brown tree snake
• spotted tree monitor
• eastern water-dragon

See the related link below for more information on Australian rainforest animals.

Answer 5

There are kangaroos,emus,koalas, many types of snakes and lizards and much more.

Answer 6

tansmanian devil and the dingo