Animal Adventures Australia

Animal Adventures
Australia

Australia is the oldest, driest, and flattest inhabited continent on the planet and it has the least fertile soil. The outback, a sparse remote desert, makes up the majority of the land in Australia. The coastal areas of Australia have a wide variety of landscapes including forests, woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, and rainforests. The Great Barrier Reef, which is just off the north-east coast of Australia, is the world’s largest reef system and is home to more than 1,500 species of fish.

Atlantic Puffin

Puffins are very speedy flyers and strong swimmers. In the air they can flap their wings up to 400 times in a minute to reach speeds up to 55 miles (88.5km) per hour. They can also dive 200 feet deep and stay underwater for up to a...

Black Swan

While most waterfowl only live in freshwater, black swans can live in fresh, salt, and brackish water. Black swans are monogamous, meaning they have one partner that they stay with throughout their entire life. These couples are very territorial and will...

Blue Tongued Lizard

Blue tongued lizards prefer to be alone and spend their time basking in the sun. When frightened, they stick their tongues out and hiss to scare away their predators. Because many poisonous animals have bright colors, this display by the blue tongued lizard is...

Bottlenose Dolphin

Bottlenose dolphins are highly communicative and use a combination of vocal communication and body language. Each dolphin even creates its own unique whistle when it’s born that it uses to identify itself. Bottlenose dolphins are very social and have been observed...

Box Jellyfish

The box jellyfish has no brain, gills, heart, or lungs and is made up of 96% water. Most jellyfish are only able to drift around in the water but the box jellyfish is able to propel itself, giving it the ability to hunt for prey. It moves through water jet...

Bull Shark

Like other sharks, bull sharks need to constantly have salt in their bodies in order to survive, which is why they only live in saltwater. But bull sharks have special adaptations that help them store salt in their bodies, giving them the ability to spend some...

Cane Toad

Cane toads are poisonous in every stage of life from egg, to tadpole, to adult. As adults, they ooze poison out of glands by the sides of their eyes and are also able to squirt it at targets like a water gun. Cane toads don’t drink water. Instead, they get all the...

Cassowary

Adult cassowaries have horn-like structures on the top of their heads called casques, which means “hat” in French. The casques are made out of keratin, the same material that rhino horns and human fingernails are made out of. No one fully knows the true purpose of...

Christmas Island Red Crab

Every year, Christmas Island red crabs migrate from their normal home in the forests in order to breed on the beaches. They time their migration around the phases of the moon in order to ensure the tides will be right when they lay their eggs. After the females...

Clownfish

All clownfish are born male and have the ability to morph into females, but females cannot change back into males. In each school of clownfish there is one female who is the largest and most dominant of the group and the rest are male. When the female dies, the...