Amazing Australian Animals

Australia is home to many unique species of fauna the best known being the kangaroo and the koala. A total of 379 species of mammals have been recorded in Australia and marsupials are a special type of mammal that carry their young in a pouch.  Besides well-known marsupials like the kangaroos, wallabies and the koala and possum, other marsupials include wombats, the Tasmanian devil, numbat, bandicoots, bettongs, the bilby, quolls, and the quokka. Have you heard of all or any of these amazing and distinctive animals? Do you have a favourite?

Numbat:
or walpurti, found in Western Australia, exclusively eats termites



Sugar Glider:
it's name refers to its preference for sugary foods
and ability to glide through the air

Wallaby:
smaller than kangaroos,
herbivores eating grasses, vegetables, leaves

Eastern Barred Bandicoot:
weighs less than 2 kg and has a short tail

Quokka:
is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal

Spotted-tail quoll sleeping at Sydney Wildlife World:
a carnivorous nocturnal, native to mainland Australia

Bettong: A nocturnal animal
that sleeps during the day in a domed nest. 

Mother koala with baby joey on it's back

The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial
found only in Tasmania.

The common wombat is a marsupial that lives in a burrow
and eats mainly native grasses.