Aussie animals

AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS

Nocturnal animals only come out at night, they live in woods and other quiet places, they move and feed while we are asleep.

Many nocturnal animals have poor eyesight, they rely on other senses like touch, feel and smell.

Nocturnal animals often need there ears more that their eyes, a wood may seem quiet but they listen for small sounds.

Nocturnal Animals

BILBY

BLACK FLYING FOXES

HOUSE MOUSE

SUGAR GLIDER

Australia has about 800 species of bird.

Many species will immediately seem familiar to visitors from the northern hemisphere.

Australian wrens look and act much like northern hemisphere wrens and Australian robins seem to be close relatives of the northern hemisphere robins.

But in fact the majority of Australian passerines are descended from the ancestors of the crow family, and the close resemblance is misleading.

Native Birds

COCKATOO

EMU

FAIRY WREN

KOOKABURRA

Dingoes communicate mostly through howling and whimpering

The Kangaroo is a mammal and a macropod, a family of marsupials that includes wallabies and pademelons

Koalas are only active for around two hours a day and get all their fluids from eating eucalyptus leaves

Platypuses live in burrows which they dig into the banks of rivers

Extremely Common

DINGO

KANGAROO

KOALA

PLATYPUS

Mammals are one of the 6 main classes of animalsThere are only about 4,000 kinds of mammalsMammals are the animal class that people belong to

SmallMammals

PADEMELON

RED FOX

TASMANIAN DEVIL

WOMBAT

Some of the largest reptiles alive today include the leatherback turtle, the Komodo dragon, and the saltwater crocodile

In many reptiles, the sex of the young is determined by the temperature the embryos are exposed to during incubation.

The first reptiles appeared approximately 340 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.

Repetilious Animals

Brown Snake

CROCODILE

DIAMOND PYTHON

FRILL NECKLIZARD

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