What is a native animal for Australia?

Answer 1

No Australian animal retains its aboriginal name in the true form, but below are some derivations from the original Aboriginal dialects.

• kangaroo (ganguru)
• koala (gwala)
• wombat (wambad)
• kookaburra (gugubarra)
• wallaby (walaba)
• wallaroo (walaru)
• budgerigar (betcherrigah, gijirrigaa)
• galah
• currawong

Incidentally, many believe "emu" and "bandicoot" to be aboriginal names for native animals, but they are not.

Answer 2

cats and dogs eat/kill our birds and reptiles, but there are other non natives that eat the food/ take up the habitat of Australian wildlife e.g rabbits. Other than that the main cause for our high list of exstinct natives is people clearing there habitats.

Answer 3

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 becessarily considered to be truly native.

Monotremes (egg laying mammals) are also native to Australia. These include the platypus and the short-beaked echidna.

Answer 4

The following is a list of animals that are of most concern to Australia's native flora and fauna.

• Cane toad (Bufo marinus)
• European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
• European red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
• Feral camel (Camelus dromedarius)
• Feral cat (Felis catus)
• Feral goat (Capra hircus)
• Feral horse (Equus caballus) and Feral donkey (Equus asinus)
• Feral pig (Sus scrofa)
• Feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

All domesticated pets, with the exception of some native birds such as finches, and various parrots such as budgies, cockatoos, cockatiels, Bourkes, etc, have been introduced into Australia. Non-native birds include Indian mynas, common starling, mallard and rock pigeon.

Wild dogs are now a major issue, and a danger to both man and Australia's native animals. They also breed with dingoes, resulting in increasing threats to the population of pure-bred dingoes (which are, in themselves, essentially non-native, having come over from Asia with the first Aborigines).

All livestock has been introduced, and where sheep and cattle are bred on huge stations out west, this has also had a significant environmental impact, destroying the habitat of native animals. Deer are also introduced animals, as are water buffalo.

Rats and mice are completely introduced, as are hares. Insects include the honey bee and the fire ant.

Of particular concern to Australian waterways are European carp.

Answer 5

Camel's, watter Buffalo, Carp, rabbit's, feral cats, wild pigs, sparrows Indian minors, horses,