Australia is home to a diverse range of animals, including over 200,000 known species. Some of Australia's most famous animals include kangaroos, koalas, and emus. The 10 most dangerous animals found in Australia are box jellyfish, taipan snakes, saltwater crocodiles, blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, redback spiders, brown snakes, tiger snakes, great white sharks, and Sydney funnel web spiders. Several endangered species include the black flanked rock-wallaby, eastern curlew, and the beautiful Gouldian finch.
Australia is home to a diverse range of animals, including over 200,000 known species. Some of Australia's most famous animals include kangaroos, koalas, and emus. The 10 most dangerous animals found in Australia are box jellyfish, taipan snakes, saltwater crocodiles, blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, redback spiders, brown snakes, tiger snakes, great white sharks, and Sydney funnel web spiders. Several endangered species include the black flanked rock-wallaby, eastern curlew, and the beautiful Gouldian finch.
Australia is home to a diverse range of animals, including over 200,000 known species. Some of Australia's most famous animals include kangaroos, koalas, and emus. The 10 most dangerous animals found in Australia are box jellyfish, taipan snakes, saltwater crocodiles, blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, redback spiders, brown snakes, tiger snakes, great white sharks, and Sydney funnel web spiders. Several endangered species include the black flanked rock-wallaby, eastern curlew, and the beautiful Gouldian finch.
Australia is home to a diverse range of animals, including over 200,000 known species. Some of Australia's most famous animals include kangaroos, koalas, and emus. The 10 most dangerous animals found in Australia are box jellyfish, taipan snakes, saltwater crocodiles, blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, redback spiders, brown snakes, tiger snakes, great white sharks, and Sydney funnel web spiders. Several endangered species include the black flanked rock-wallaby, eastern curlew, and the beautiful Gouldian finch.
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AUSTRALIA'S ANIMAL KINGDOM
BY :- NAWAL AMANULLAH Australia's animal population
Australia's famous animals
Australia's 10 most dangerous
CONTENTS animals
Australia's endangered animals
-Australia has between 200,000 and 300,000 species- about 100,000 of which have been identified. There are 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds and 51 million frogs. AUSTRALIA'S -There are 378 species of mammals, 828 species of ANIMAL land and aquatic birds, 680 species of reptiles, 190 species of frogs, and more than 4,000 species of POPULATION marine and freshwater fish, 300 species of lizards, 140 species of snakes, 2 crocodile species and around 50 types of marine mammals. Australia has the largest population of feral camels and the AUSTRALIA'S only herd of dromedary (one-humped) camels exhibiting FAMOUS wild behaviour in the world. By popular tradition, the kangaroo, koala and emu are ANIMALS accepted as the national animal emblem. 1. Box jellyfish (aka Boxfish, Sea Wasp, Fire Medusa or Stinger) 2. Taipan snake 3. Saltwater crocodile (aka salties) AUSTRALIA'S 10 MOST 4. Blue-ringed octopus 5. Stonefish DANGEROUS ANIMALS 6. Redback spider (aka Australian black widow) 7 and 8. Brown snake and tiger snake 9. Great white shark 10. Sydney funnel web spider These endangered marsupials, known in the Western ENDANGERED Desert as Warru or the Black-footed Rock-wallaby, were once widespread in many parts of Western Australia, ANIMALS South Australia and the Northern Territories. They live in rocky, rugged habitats where they shelter in caves, cliffs and rockpiles during the day. BLACK FLANKED ROCK The removal of its habitat, adjustments in fire patterns and WALLABY foxes and wild cats were introduced. The Eastern Curlew's impressive bill, the largest of all shorebirds in the world, is used to examine mud and dig up crabs and molluscs, their main source of food in Australia. Needless to say, they are critically endangered and have declined in the past 50 years by more than 80 percent. EASTERN An annual migratory flight to Russia and north-eastern CURLEW China allows the Eastern Curlew to breed, arriving back home to Australia to fatten up again before the long journey up north to breed. They can be spotted in the coastal regions of northeast and southern Australia. Perhaps the most beautiful bird in the world is the Gouldian Finch. The impressive colour of its plumage appealed to nature lovers and thus, until the early 1980s, a GOULDIAN FINCH huge proportion of them were trapped in the wild for local and foreign bird trade. This is the prime source of their decline, along with a parasitic air- sac mite and habitat changes as a result of land clearing and combustion.
