Animals In Australian Rainforests

Some of the best known animals in Australia are the kangaroo dingo wallaby platypus wombat and koala.

Animals in australian rainforests. Above is a slide show showing lots of different animals that live in the rainforest. Facts about Australian Rainforests 9. Animals - Australian rainforest.

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. 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. Here we will show you some of the.

Here is some information on what animals are found in Australian rainforests. Reptiles such as caimans and the green anaconda. A dark black colour with a large straw-coloured patch of fur.

The mammals present are primarily marsupials such as small possums quolls and wallabies or monotremes such as platypus and echidna. 23 of all Australian reptile species. There are many spectacular insects to see in the rainforest and surrounds.

There are frogs millipedes centipedes lizards snakes worms and more. Amphibians such as poison dart frogs and the red-eyed tree frog. The Daintree Rainforest sits between Cairns and Cooktown in the north of Queensland.

And birds such as toucans macaws and the harpy eagle. In the table below is the what the animals above eat and what kind of consumer they are. Rainforests cover only 03 of the Australian continent yet they support about 13 of all Australian bird and animal species.