Animals In Australian Rainforests

Facts about Australian Rainforests 9.

Animals in australian rainforests. There are many species of animals in the Australian tropical rainforest. The Wet Tropics is home to about a third of Australias 315 mammal species - 12 of these species are found nowhere else in the world. Facts about Australian Rainforests 10.

30 of all Australian frog species. Some of the best known animals in Australia are the kangaroo dingo wallaby platypus wombat and koala. A dark black colour with a large straw-coloured patch of fur.

Although rainforests cover only about 03 of Australia they contain about half of all Australian plant families and about a third of Australias mammal and bird species. They are home to at least 50 of all living animal and plant species on the planet. In the table below is the what the animals above eat and what kind of consumer they are.

The diversity of species in particular in the tropical rainforests is unequalled. If you are trekking through the rainforest at night it isnt birds flapping their wings from above but bats. This area offers excellent opportunities for rainforest wildlife experiences due to the fact that it includes.

They include unique green possums ringtail possums quolls rare bats tree-kangaroos a rat-kangaroo a melomys and an antechinus. In Australian tropical rainforests we have Green Tree Frogs Litoria caerulea New Guinea Tree Frogs Litoria genimaculata many species of common tree snakes Colubridae sp Amethystine Pythons Morelia amethistina Eastern Water Dragons Physignathus lesueurii Boyds Forest Dragons Hypsilurus boydii freshwater turtles and the large and deadly salt water crocodiles. The Daintree Rainforest sits between Cairns and Cooktown in the north of Queensland.

Herbivores omnivores and carnivores. 18 of all Australian bird species. Rainforest animals include mammals such as sloths tapirs jaguars tigers howler monkeys spider monkeys and orangutans.