How Many Unique Animals Are In Australia

Yep here we come to the dangerous Australian wildlife of the Outback and the dangerous species that inhabit the coastal areas of the tropical north.

How many unique animals are in australia. Australia has many amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else in the world. It reaches up to 2 m 65 ft in hight and can run really fast with speeds up to 50 kmh 31 mph. K is for kangaroo and E is for emu.

Of its flora and fauna 84 of its mammals 45 of its birds 93 of its reptiles and 90 of its fish are endemic. The south-west of Western Australia is known as one of the worlds 34 biodiversity hotspots with some of the richest and most unique reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth. A baby echidna is adorably known as a puggle.

The most distinctive is the platypus a riverdwelling animal with a duck-like bill a furry body and webbed feet. One of two monotremes egg-laying mammals in the world these spiky animals look something like a hedgehog crossed with an anteater. 141 of Australias 207 mammal species 25 unique to the state.

Western Australia is home to. W is for wombat and they all live in a faraway place near the bottom of the earth. More than 400 reptile species more than 40 unique to the state.

But there is still so much we dont know about Australias native animals. There are frogs turtles snakes lizards and last but not least saltwater and freshwater crocodiles. However emus cannot fly just like an ostrich.

Beyond that some reports show 70 percent of the birds and nearly 90 percent of reptiles are also endemic to the country according to Tom Stalf president and CEO of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Australias most dangerous animals. Of the 828 bird species listed in Australia.