This document provides an overview of Australia's unique mammals, which can be divided into monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. It describes several iconic Australian species in detail, including the platypus, koala, kangaroo, Tasmanian devil, and dingo. The text highlights that monotremes lay eggs, marsupials give birth to underdeveloped young that develop further in the mother's pouch, and the dingo was the only placental mammal native to Australia before European settlement.

1. AUSTRALIA’S AMAZING ANIMALS MAMMALS Monotremes Marsupials and Placental

2. Map of Australia Where the different animals live

3. MONOTREMES Monotremes lay eggs instead of giving live birth. There are two living monotremes The Platypus and The Echidna Monotremes do secrete milk for their young & have hair like other mammals. Monotremes are found only in Australia & New Guinea.

4. The Platypus (Male) The Platypus’ name comes from the Greek meaning broad foot for the webbed foot and lives in the eastern waterways. The Platypus has a bill that resembles a duck's bill but is actually an elongated snout covered with soft, moist, leathery skin and sensitive nerve endings. The male Platypus has a sharp, hollow, horny spur about 15 millimeters long on the inside of both hind leg ankles.

5. The Platypus (Female) The females lays her eggs and then curls up to incubate them against her abdomen. The female has no teats. Milk is produced in large glands under her skin which oozes out onto a patch of fur and the young Platypus sucks it up.

6. Platypus and the Spur MALE PLATYPUS with Venom Spurs on his hind legs

7. The Echidna The Echidnas are spiny anteaters that live in dry regions and the Australian Alps. They are covered with coarse hair and spines. During the breeding season, a female echidna develops a simple pouch into which she lays a single egg. The echidna suckles her young through specialized pores inside the pouch.

8. The Echidna

9. Marsupials Marsupial means pouched animal They give live birth but do not have a long gestation time inside the mother’s body. The young animal climbs up into the mother’s pouch to suck from the nipple and grow there for months. Like other mammals, marsupials are covered with hair. Australia has most of the world’s marsupials.

10. Kangaroos Kangaroos are the largest of the Macro pods, which means large feet and they average about five feet tall in height. There are two kinds of kangaroos, the red and the grey kangaroo. The young baby kangaroos are called joeys, the male kangaroo is a boomer and the female is a doe.

11. Kangaroos

12. Koalas The koala is a herbivorous, plant-eating, marsupial that dwells in trees and eats Eucalyptus leaves (also known as gum leaves). It does not drink water unless it is sick or there is not enough moisture in the eucalyptus leaves. The koala is found from Queensland to Southern Victoria.

13. Koalas

14. Bandicoots & Bilbies Bandicoots & Bilbies are small to medium marsupials. Bandicoots live south and west.

15. Bilby The Bilby is a type of bandicoot in the north. The bilby has long ears like a rabbit and is the Australian Easter animal.

16. Ring Tail Possum Australia has possums too. They live in the forests and woodlands.

17. Tasmanian Devils, Wombats and the Tasmanian Tiger Wombats are large burrowing animals that look like a small bear found in the north, south and east. Tasmanian Devils resemble a small black dog and are found only in Tasmania. They were named devils due to their loud cries. The Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine is probably extinct. The last known one died in 1936. The Thylacine resembled a wolf with stripes.

18. Tasmanian Devil The Tasmanian Devil is endangered due to a facial tumor disease that is spreading through the population.

19. Wombat

20. Tasmanian Tiger

21. Placental Mammals The only placental animal, an animal that grows inside a sac in the mother’s body, that was in Australia before the European settlement, is the Dingo. Dingoes are not only in Australia but Southeastern Asia. They have been in Australia for over 3,000 years. They are found all over Australia particularly in the north. The Aboriginal people used them to hunt. Dingoes remain a wild dog in nature like the wolf but mixed blood Dingoes are often seen as pets .

22. The Dingo

23. Animals and Aboriginal Culture Animals were very important to the Aboriginal Culture and many of the Dreamtime stories of the beginning of time and moral stories involved animals. Animals were drawn on rock and sand by the Aborigines.

24. Let’s take a look at what you know True or false Monotremes have live births. Marsupial means big feet animals. Dingoes are only found in Australia. Koalas like to drink a lot of water. The female platypus has a poison spur. The Tasmanian Devil is extinct.

25. Too Right! That’s correct! What a Beauty!

26. Have another go! Sorry, Mates!

27. Welcome to my Backyard My backyard was not far from where Kangaroos live and a Kookaburra with his laughing call sat in the tree of my school yard.

28. Kangaroos Hopping

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