Unique Animals That Live In Australia

The distribution of climates, topography, and soils that has produced the zones and ecological variation of australian vegetation has also been reflected in the distribution of animal life. Marsupials, egg laying mammals, cute, terrifying; Share flipboard email print animals & nature.

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Unique animals that live in australia. Placental mammals are relatively recent arrivals to australia. There are some truly bizarre animals in the wild. Like all marsupials, including kangaroos, wombats and tasmanian devils, baby koalas are called joeys.

New zealand’s weird and wonderful wildlife. Newborn koalas are called pinkies, born blind and about the size of a jellybean. However, it is generally smaller in size than a kangaroo.

Due to millions of years of isolation, australia is home to many unique species of plants and animals. In turn, this means a few unusual species of animals and birds evolved that that are well worth looking out for while backpacking in new zealand. Platypus and echidna are certainly the most unique australian animals.

Although kangaroos, spiders and poisonous snakes are common animals that come to mind when thinking about australian wildlife, there are many other animals that are native to the country. There are some 250 species of native mammals, 550 species of land. These animals reached australia by flying and crossing the seas that separated australian from asia when australia slowly started drifting closer to asia making crossings to the continent possible.

Marsupials carry their babies in a pouch. A dingo looks similar to a domestic dog, but has a longer muzzle, larger pointed ears and sharper teeth. Tufted deer is one of the small species of deer with canines,live in burma or myanmar and china.

Australia probably has between 200,000 and 300,000 species, about 100,000 of which have been described. Here are 15 animals from around the world that have very unique looks. I grew up in sydney but fell in love with north queensland and moved here over 20 years ago.