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.

Milkfish

Milkfish have blue tops, silver sides, and white bellies that shimmer in the water. They don’t have teeth which leaves them only able to eat soft plants and invertebrates. Milkfish spawn in salty water and female milkfish can lay up to 5 million eggs in one...

Monarch butterfly

Every year, monarch butterflies go on a long migration spanning over 2,000 miles (3200 km). When the weather begins to get cold they travel from Canada and the northern United States all the way down to southern California and central Mexico. They return to the...

Nudibranch

Nudibranchs spend most of their time dragging their bellies along the seafloor in search of something to eat. They come in many different colors, which are determined by the pigments in their prey. Some nudibranchs are even able to acquire a way to defend...

Peregrine Falcon

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth and can dive at speeds up to 200 miles (323 kilometers) per hour. Instead of building nests, they live in dips of rocks or on the edges of cliffs or buildings. Peregrine falcon chicks learn to fly in just 6...

Platypus

Platypuses have bills like ducks, tails like beavers, and webbed feet like otters. They’re one of only five mammals to lay eggs but mother platypuses still make milk like any other mammal. Because of their simple diets made up mostly of invertebrates, platypuses...

Pufferfish

The main purpose of a pufferfish’s spines and ability to expand itself is to protect itself from predators. When a predator tries to eat a pufferfish, it inflates inside the predator's mouth, poking it from the inside with its spines. Most pufferfish also contain...

Quokka

Quokkas are best known for their cute face and mouth that’s always shaped in what appears to be a smile. The actual purpose of their smile is to help the Quokka pant and cool off. They’re very social animals and live in groups of 20 to 150...

Red Kangaroo

Red Kangaroos have powerful hind legs that they use to hop at speed up to 43 miles per hour (69.2km/h). Newborn Kangaroos are born blind, hairless, and about the size of a jellybean. Once they’re born they climb up into their mother’s pouch where they will continue...

Scorpion

Scorpions have been on the planet for hundreds of millions of years, even since before the age of dinosaurs. This can be owed in part to their amazing endurance. Scorpions can slow down their metabolism to the point that they can live off of only one insect for a...

Sea Star

Most sea stars have 5 arms but some are able to grow up to 50. Each of these arms is covered into tiny suckers and organs which the sea star uses to creep along the floor of the ocean. Sea stars generally aren’t very social, but occasionally groups of them will...