Australian Wildlife

Australian Wildlife posts cover the marsupials, monotremes, reptiles and birds that make Australia a separate biogeographic region. Articles look at the eastern grey, western grey and red kangaroos, koalas in the eucalypt forests of New South Wales and Victoria, wombats and the smaller wallabies, the platypus and the echidna, saltwater and freshwater crocodiles in the north, sea life on the Great Barrier Reef and the bird species from cassowaries to kookaburras. There are also notes on the dangerous snakes and spiders that visitors worry about more than they should and on Tasmania as a refuge for species lost on the mainland.