Animals In Australian Rainforests

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.

Animals in australian rainforests. The Daintree is home to the idiot fruit also known as the green dinosaur one of the worlds rarest and oldest flowering plants. Reptiles such as caimans and the green anaconda. If you are trekking through the rainforest at night it isnt birds flapping their wings from above but bats.

The diversity of species in particular in the tropical rainforests is unequalled. 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. 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.

There are many species of animals in the Australian tropical rainforest. They are home to at least 50 of all living animal and plant species on the planet. There are many spectacular insects to see in the rainforest and surrounds.

Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals reptiles birds and invertebrates. 18 of all Australian bird species. Facts about Australian Rainforests 9.

There are frogs millipedes centipedes lizards snakes worms and more. The Daintree Rainforest sits between Cairns and Cooktown in the north of Queensland. In the table below is the what the animals above eat and what kind of consumer they are.

Herbivores omnivores and carnivores. These animals have been separated into different groups. 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.