This document discusses Australian animals. It describes that there are three types of mammals, with marsupials and monotremes mostly found in Australia. Marsupials are distinctive because they carry young in pouches. Some herbivorous marsupials discussed are kangaroos, wombats, and koalas. Carnivorous marsupials in Tasmania include Tasmanian devils. Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs, such as the platypus. Reptiles discussed include crocodiles, venomous snakes, and lizards. Birds mentioned are emus and kookaburras.
3. Mammals
But there are two other types of mammals
• Monotremes
• Marsupials
And Monotremes and Marsupials are mostly found in Australia!
4. Marsupials
• A marsupial is a type of mammal found only in Latin
America and Australasia
• Marsupials are distinctive to other mammals (such as
Humans) because they keep their young in a protective
pouch which contains mammary glands (milk sacks)
6. Kangaroos
• Kangaroos are the
largest species of
marsupial
• There are more
Kangaroos than people
in Australia
• They live in all regions
of the nation – even the
desert
• They are the only large
animal to use hooping
to move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0YN
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7. Wombat
• Wombats are short, muscular
marsupials.
• They are mainly nocturnal, emerging at
night to feed on grasses, herbs, bark,
and roots.
• They dig extensive tunnels to live in
during the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE82eF
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8. Koala
Koalas think with their
stomach!
• They sleep up to 18
hours a day and only
wake to eat more.
• They rarely leave their
trees, even to get a
drink.
• They get water from
the Eucalyptus leaves
they eat.
13. Tasmanian Tiger - Extinct
• Oddly, the Tasmanian tiger looked and acted like a strange combination of a
wolf and a tiger. However, it is genetically not related to either.
• The last one died in 1936. They were hunted during the early 20th Century.
16. The Platypus
• One of the worlds strangest animals
• British scientists thought the first examples
they received were jokes!
17. The Platypus
• Lay eggs like a reptile
• Have no stomach
• Have no nipples but still feed their young milk
• Are born with teeth and then permanently lose them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a
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19. Crocodilian
• Australia has the Largest species of
Crocodile, the saltwater crocodile
• They are the largest reptiles, weighing
1000kgs and growing up to 6 meters
long
• They kill an average of one or two
people a year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q7vN
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20. Venomous Snakes
The Eastern Brown Snake and Tiger Snake
• Both are deadly
• The Brown Snake, common in Canberra, are highly aggressive.
• Their venom can cause paralysis or death.
23. Emu
• An Emu is a Australian flightless
Brid
• Weighing up to 60kg, and It’s the
second largest bird on earth after
the Ostrich
• Despite this weight, they can ran
up to 50kmh
• They have two sets of eyelids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGyG1
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