Animals In Australian Rainforests

A dark black colour with a large straw-coloured patch of fur.

Animals in australian rainforests. Some eat plants and vegetables. Tasmanian rainforest contains some of the most ancient invertebrates such the large land snail Macleays swallowtail butterfly freshwater crayfish and the peripatus or velvet worm. Animals - Australian rainforest.

The animals in the Australia forest are the bird frog and freshwater fish mammals marsupials butterflies reptiles and bat species. And birds such as toucans macaws and the harpy eagle. The diversity of species in particular in the tropical rainforests is unequalled.

With the spectacled flying fox being a staple in Australias rainforests. In Australian tropical rainforests we have Green Tree Frogs Litoria caerulea New Guinea Tree Frogs Litoria genimaculata many species of common tree snakes Colubridae sp Amethystine Pythons Morelia amethistina Eastern Water Dragons Physignathus lesueurii Boyds Forest Dragons Hypsilurus boydii freshwater turtles and the large and deadly salt water crocodiles. 39 of all Australian marsupial species.

What types of animals live in the Australian rainforest Lots of little critters many of them slimy. 18 of all Australian bird species. 30 of all Australian frog species.

Animals of the cool temperate rainforests of Australia include ringtail possums pademelons spotted tailed quolls and the dusky antechinus tree frogs rosellas and black currawongs. In the table below is the what the animals above eat and what kind of consumer they are. If you are trekking through the rainforest at night it isnt birds flapping their wings from above but bats.

These animals have been separated into different groups. The Wet Tropics is home to about a third of Australias 315 mammal species - 12 of these species are found nowhere else in the world. There are many spectacular insects to see in the rainforest and surrounds.