Animals In Australian Rainforests

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Animals in australian rainforests. With habitats ranging from desert to coral reef via tropical and temperate rainforests rivers and grasslands Australia is home to many of the worlds most recognisable animals including kangaroos koalas emus platypuses wombats and goannas. The animals in the Australia forest are the bird frog and freshwater fish mammals marsupials butterflies reptiles and bat species. What types of animals live in the Australian rainforest Lots of little critters many of them slimy.

There are frogs millipedes centipedes lizards snakes worms and more. Under-Neath there is an example of a. Some eat plants and vegetables.

18 of all Australian bird species. Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals reptiles birds and invertebrates. And birds such as toucans macaws and the harpy eagle.

Above is a slide show showing lots of different animals that live in the rainforest. Tasmanian rainforest contains some of the most ancient invertebrates such the large land snail Macleays swallowtail butterfly freshwater crayfish and the peripatus or velvet worm. Facts about Australian Rainforests 10.

Rainforest animals include mammals such as sloths tapirs jaguars tigers howler monkeys spider monkeys and orangutans. The diversity of species in particular in the tropical rainforests is unequalled. The Daintree is home to the idiot fruit also known as the green dinosaur one of the worlds rarest and oldest flowering plants.

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. 39 of all Australian marsupial species. Amphibians such as poison dart frogs and the red-eyed tree frog.