How Many Unique Animals Are In Australia

Read why the animals found in australia are so unique It feeds mainly on ants about 2000 per meal cached with the tongue.

How many unique animals are in australia. But there is still so much we dont know about Australias native animals. Some of our Australian animals are very well known like kangaroos dingos wallabies and wombats and of course the koala platypus and echidna. A baby echidna is adorably known as a puggle.

In the varied group of reptiles youll find a huge number of unique Australian animals. Lizards There are over 700 species unique to Australia alone. Australias most dangerous animals.

There are frogs turtles snakes lizards and last but not least saltwater and freshwater crocodiles. The emu is the tallest bird in Australia. It reaches up to 2 m 65 ft in hight and can run really fast with speeds up to 50 kmh 31 mph.

The south-west of Western Australia is known as one of the worlds 34 biodiversity hotspots with some of the richest and most unique reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth. Steve had a close encounter with one of our apex predators the saltwater crocodile Crocodylus porosus while filming in the Northern TerritoryHe was measuring the bite of one crocodile which has the most powerful bite of any species when it bit the pole Steve was attached tothrowing him back and forth and making off with expensive equipment. One of two monotremes egg-laying mammals in the world these spiky animals look something like a hedgehog crossed with an anteater.

141 of Australias 207 mammal species 25 unique to the state. Of the 828 bird species listed in Australia. Emus have a varied diet.

Out of 300-some terrestrial mammal species in Australia nearly 90 percent of them are found only in Australia barring captivity and human introduction elsewhere. Western Australia is home to. Only later do you get to hear about the Aborigines and the British settlers who were actually convicts.