FAUNA

NAME
Australian Fur Seal

IMAGE

FACT
Mother seals and
pups find each other
using a familiar call

Rock Lobster

Female rock lobsters

can carry hundreds of
thousands of tiny
orange eggs under
their tail.

Abalone

Wild abalone tend to

stay in one location
waiting for food to
drift by

Albatross

Wandering albatross
has a wingspan of 11
feet

Southern Right
Whale

Weaning age: 11 to
12 months

Sea Sponge

There are
approximately 5000
species of sponges
identified by
scientists worldwide

Hooded Plover

Some Hooded Plover

can live for up to 17
years.

Weedy Seadragon

Sea dragons have a

long dorsal fin along
the back and small
pectoral fins on either
side of the neck,
which provide
balance

Giant Cuttle

his is the only known

large spawning
aggregation of
cuttlefish in the
world.

Elephant Snail

The shell may be up

to 125 mm long.

Fairy Tern

The male and female

fairy tern incubate
the eggs and care for
the chicks.

Southern Shortfin Eel

Adult Southern
Shortfin Eels may
spend up to 20
years in freshwaters,
before migrating to
the sea to breed
in the Coral Sea.

Bottle Nose Dolphin

Bottlenose Dolphins
can swim up to 260
m. below the surface
of the ocean.

Black-Faced
Cormorant

After fishing, they sit

with wings
outstretched,
apparently to dry
their nonwaterproofed
feathers.

Blue Ringed Octopus

The female southern

blue-ringed octopus
carries its eggs until
they hatch, and dies
shortly afterwards.