Desert Animals List Australia
These animals include rock wallabies parrots snakes camels and bilbies.
Desert animals list australia. But the coolest reptile and one of the most extraordinary desert animals in Australia is the Thorny Devil. 30980 sq mi 7 10 Sturt Stony Desert. List of animals that live in the desert biome Sahara Desert Africa.
These burrowing animals are found in deserts of Western Australia. Aside from an intimidating array of conical spikes that cover the top half of its body the Thorny Devil is endowed with a false head on the back of its neck. 60000 sq mi 5 20 Little Sandy Desert.
These include the cockatoo and the almost extinct night parrot which lives in the Australian desert. Western Australia 156000 km 2. Western Australia 111500 km 2.
Some of the large Australian desert animals are Red kangaroos Macropus rufus dingos Canis lupus dingo and feral camels Camelus sp. These beautiful marsupial acrobats bound across Australias rocky outcrops and rugged cliffs. South Australia Queensland New South Wales.
Animals found in the great victoria desert. TrishansOz Copyright Senani Ponnamperuma. These insectivorous creatures primarily feed on cossid caterpillars and beetle larvae.
Existing Animals Bilby Perentie monitor lizard Thorny Devil Bearded Dragon Red Kangaroo Camel Desert Dingo Extinct Animals Desert Bandicoot Perameles eremiana Pig-footed Bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus Lesser Bilby Macrotis leucura Desert Rat-Kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris Central Hare-Wallaby Lagorchestes asomatus. Because of the sheer size of our arid regions knowledge of the deserts fauna continually shifts as new species are discovered. Mammals such as the fennec fox meerkat dromedary and Bactrian camel.