Research Paper On Australian Animals

The increasing aridity of the Australian continent over the past 20 million years has favoured organisms that could adapt to dry conditions. Marsupials have developed a variety of behavioural, physiological and morphological adaptations to survive in these arid conditions with little or no food and free water for extended periods of time.

Western grey kangaroos are strong bipedal hoppers that live in many environments such as woodlands, grass lands, open forests, scrubland and heathland (Dawson, Milne & Warburton, 2014).

These beautiful thick fur, grey, with a little tinge of brown koalas are herbivorous marsupial that can range up to 9kg (20 lb) in weight. Their nutrient cycle is eating eucalyptus leaves, koalas don’t drink that much water they get it from the leaves. Koalas can eat up to two and a half pounds a day. They can rest up to 22 hours each day. They are able to rest for that long because their bodies need a lot of energy to diet the gum leaves, koalas also sleep to save energy. These koalas like to live in tall open eucalypt forest.

Macropus – *Macropus is commonly known as kangaroo (Fig.25.3) *It is found in arid and semi arid habitats of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. *Males are larger than females. *Males have short, red-brown fur, fading to pale buff below and on the limbs. Females are smaller than males and are blue-grey with

Tasmanian Tigers are an extinct animal back in 1936. A striped creature that showed characteristics of a dog or wolf. To find out this animal was not that much related to a canine. Ir ended up looking and changing because of its ecological role play that it adapted. This article explains how and why a scientist went back did brain scans to figure out more about this mysterious animal. After scan both white and gray matter of the brain. To then find out interesting characteristics that were never research before because of its extinction in 1936. After this research it was founded that they are more like a tasmanian devil. Finding this was all because of the brain scan that Dr. Berns did. With this research it was founded that many people who

They nurse without any nipples, nursing happens through glands in the skin and the babies just suck on the mothers skin. Platypuses also have no stomach. Males have venomous spurs. The last fact and what I find very interesting the they have retractable webbing

They live mostly in south and southeastern parts of Australia because the temperature of the northern parts makes it tough to survive in winter.

The wallaby are a part of the kangaroo family they are the smallest in the kangaroo family.

Eastern Grey Kangaroos possesses grey brown fur which is paler on the underarms, a finely haired muzzle, and dark tips to the paws, feet and the tail. Their muscular tails are much stronger than their arms. Kangaroos are overall strong animals however, they have bad eyesight. In contrast, their sense of hearing and smell is amazing. Male Eastern Grey Kangaroo tend to be much larger (in size) than female kangaroos. Their diet includes of grasses, flowers, leaves, ferns, fungi and mosses considering that they are herbivores. They also happen to be good swimmers and many don’t know that they are actually nocturnal. They sleep during the day and then at night, they roam free.

Western Australia lies in the southern hemisphere and is over 2.5 million square kilometres which is about the size of Western Europe. Western Australia cover approximately one third of Australia and is one of the largest states in the world with a wide range of fauna, flora, climate and history.

The world famous red kangaroo is famous for being the Australian icon and is also the largest marsupial and the largest Australian mammal, with some males standing at two metres tall, and weighing around 85 kilograms. Males are bigger than females and are very powerfully built. The fur is usually red-brown, though some eastern females can be blue-grey. White is appeared on the Red Kangaroo’s cheek and underneath, where his belly is. Red kangaroos have massive muscles in their rear legs, designed to help them jump. They can reach a height of 1.8 metres and a distance of 9 metres in a single bound. When alarmed they can hop away at speeds of up to 64 kilometres per hour.

1. Description: Red Kangaroos are the largest in size of the marsupials and the largest group in population of kangaroos still in existence. Males are a reddish brown and have a pale stomach and legs. Females are more of a greyish-reddish-brown color. They, like other kangaroos, have large, powerful hind legs and feet. Red kangaroos’ front legs are short, but they have a sturdy, muscular tail that supports the rest of their body.

Almost all mammals give birth to live young but platypuses lay eggs. Platypuses are part of a primitive species of mammals called monotremes. When a female platypus is ready to give birth, she will bury herself inside one of her tunnels and seal herself inside. She will continue on to lay one or two eggs and keep them warm with her fur. After about ten days, the eggs hatch bean sized baby platypuses and the mom will nurse them for three to four months until they can swim on their

The first time rabbits arrived in Australia was on the first fleet. However, the first time they were seen was in 1827. In 1859 Thomas Austin freed about 12 rabbits on his property near Geelong, Victoria. The rabbits didn't just stay in the farm, eventually got to the QLD - NSW border two years later. "feral rabbits are now found all over Australia, apart from the northern most areas" (Environment.gov.au, 2017) Rabbits have the ability to survive in many different conditions, in fact they have been found to live in a lot of different habitats such as deserts to coastal plains, in fact they can survive nearly anywhere that has suitable soil for digging warrens. However rabbits have many predators such as dingoes or house cats.

Kangaroos have adapted to drier conditions and have features that help them deal with lack of water in the savanna. As in if they are hot they pant to cool down like dogs. Dingos and red foxes are some predators to kangaroos also the Tasmanian devil can be a threat to these animals. Kangaroos are herbivores so they eat grass and vegetation. Kangaroos extract the water from the vegetation the drink since there is not a lot of water in the savannas. Kangaroos are vertebrates since they have a back bone and also they are a mammal so that's why they are