AUSTRALIA'S ANIMAL KINGDOM

BY :- NAWAL AMANULLAH
  Australia's animal population

 Australia's famous animals

 Australia's 10 most dangerous

CONTENTS animals

 Australia's endangered animals

  -Australia has between 200,000 and 300,000
species- about 100,000 of which have been identified.
There are 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles,
180 million birds and 51 million frogs.
AUSTRALIA'S  -There are 378 species of mammals, 828 species of
ANIMAL land and aquatic birds, 680 species of reptiles, 190
species of frogs, and more than 4,000 species of
POPULATION marine and freshwater fish, 300 species of lizards, 140
species of snakes, 2 crocodile species and around 50
types of marine mammals.
  Australia has the largest population of feral camels and the
AUSTRALIA'S only herd of dromedary (one-humped) camels exhibiting
FAMOUS wild behaviour in the world.
 By popular tradition, the kangaroo, koala and emu are
ANIMALS accepted as the national animal emblem.
 1. Box jellyfish (aka Boxfish, Sea
Wasp, Fire Medusa or Stinger)
2. Taipan snake
3. Saltwater crocodile (aka salties)
AUSTRALIA'S 10 MOST 4. Blue-ringed octopus
5. Stonefish
DANGEROUS ANIMALS 6. Redback spider (aka Australian
black widow)
7 and 8. Brown snake and tiger snake
9. Great white shark
10. Sydney funnel web spider
  These endangered marsupials, known in the Western
ENDANGERED Desert as Warru or the Black-footed Rock-wallaby, were
once widespread in many parts of Western Australia,
ANIMALS South Australia and the Northern Territories.
 They live in rocky, rugged habitats where they shelter in
caves, cliffs and rockpiles during the day.
BLACK FLANKED ROCK
 The removal of its habitat, adjustments in fire patterns and
WALLABY foxes and wild cats were introduced.
  The Eastern Curlew's impressive bill, the largest of all
shorebirds in the world, is used to examine mud and dig up
crabs and molluscs, their main source of food in Australia.
Needless to say, they are critically endangered and have
declined in the past 50 years by more than 80 percent.
EASTERN  An annual migratory flight to Russia and north-eastern
CURLEW China allows the Eastern Curlew to breed, arriving back
home to Australia to fatten up again before the long
journey up north to breed. They can be spotted in the
coastal regions of northeast and southern Australia.
  Perhaps the most beautiful bird in
the world is the Gouldian Finch.
The impressive colour of its
plumage appealed to nature lovers
and thus, until the early 1980s, a
GOULDIAN FINCH huge proportion of them were
trapped in the wild for local and
foreign bird trade.
 This is the prime source of their
decline, along with a parasitic air-
sac mite and habitat changes as a
result of land clearing and
combustion.