good info about some of the animals and speices you will find in australia.

1. AUSTRALIA
N ANIMALS

2. 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.

7. 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.

12. 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

17. Mammals are one of
the 6 main classes of
animals
There are only about
4,000 kinds of
mammals
Mammals are the
animal class that
people belong to

22. 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.