Animals In Australian Rainforests

Animals of the cool temperate rainforests of Australia include ringtail possums pademelons spotted tailed quolls and the dusky antechinus tree frogs rosellas and black currawongs.

Animals in australian rainforests. The Daintree is home to the idiot fruit also known as the green dinosaur one of the worlds rarest and oldest flowering plants. Facts about Australian Rainforests 9. They include unique green possums ringtail possums quolls rare bats tree-kangaroos a rat-kangaroo a melomys and an antechinus.

The mammals present are primarily marsupials such as small possums quolls and wallabies or monotremes such as platypus and echidna. They are home to at least 50 of all living animal and plant species on the planet. The diversity of species in particular in the tropical rainforests is unequalled.

18 of all Australian bird species. There are many spectacular insects to see in the rainforest and surrounds. There are frogs millipedes centipedes lizards snakes worms and more.

Tasmanian rainforest contains some of the most ancient invertebrates such the large land snail Macleays swallowtail butterfly freshwater crayfish and the peripatus or velvet worm. These animals have been separated into different groups. 23 of all Australian reptile species.

Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals reptiles birds and invertebrates. Some of the best known animals in Australia are the kangaroo dingo wallaby platypus wombat and koala. The Daintree Rainforest sits between Cairns and Cooktown in the north of Queensland.

Rainforest animals include mammals such as sloths tapirs jaguars tigers howler monkeys spider monkeys and orangutans. In the table below is the what the animals above eat and what kind of consumer they are. Amphibians such as poison dart frogs and the red-eyed tree frog.