Wildlife of Australia |
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... west to east the first obvious break is the line of the Darling Scarp in south - western Australia . From the west this looks like a low range of hills but on the east side the land does not fall away but rises gently into that huge western ...
... west to east the first obvious break is the line of the Darling Scarp in south - western Australia . From the west this looks like a low range of hills but on the east side the land does not fall away but rises gently into that huge western ...
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... Western Australia a milling company , as its last act before relinquishing an area , demolished a giant among the jarrahs , by far the biggest ever found Among the strange plants found in these forest areas are the pitcher plants ...
... Western Australia a milling company , as its last act before relinquishing an area , demolished a giant among the jarrahs , by far the biggest ever found Among the strange plants found in these forest areas are the pitcher plants ...
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... Australia would be complete without a reference to one of the stiff - tailed species , the musk duck . It was first made known to science by an early navigator , Captain George Vancouver , who in 1791 , while ashore near Albany , Western ...
... Australia would be complete without a reference to one of the stiff - tailed species , the musk duck . It was first made known to science by an early navigator , Captain George Vancouver , who in 1791 , while ashore near Albany , Western ...
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Aborigines animals areas baby bandicoots Bass Strait bats beak best known birds blue body breeding brown burrows called captivity chicks coast colour common name creature crocodiles crow David Fleay dingo dolphins dragon eaten echidna egg-laying eggs feathers feed feet female freshwater frogs geckoes giant glider goannas grass grey ground hatch head hollow honey-eaters huge hunting inches insects islands joey kangaroo killed kinds koala land legless lizards legs live lyrebirds magpie male mammals marsupials miles mother move native naturalist nest noisy scrub-bird normal northern numbat pattern perhaps plants platypus poisonous possum pouch prey python Queensland rats reptiles ring-tail rock scientists scrub-bird seals Silver-eyes skin skinks smaller snake South Australia South Wales southern species swallowed tadpoles tail Tasmania Tasmanian tiger teeth tiger toes tortoises tree turtle victim Victoria wallabies Western Australia whale wings wombats young youngsters