This is a Wallaby a type of animal called a marsupial they are a very australian type of animal because the other animals that are in this group such as: The Wombat, the Koala, the brush taled possem and any other animal that has a pouch are all Australian animals.
This is a Numbat it also is a member of the marsupial family. Once widespread across southern Australia, this marsupial has become extinct throughout most of its range, surviving in only small patches of forest in Western Australia's south-west.
Again this animal is part of the Australian marsupial family. Once widely distributed through most of Australia, the Brushtail Possum has largely disappeared.
Unusually for a parrot, the Carnaby's Cockatoo is a migratory species travelling between inland woodland breeding areas to more coastal areas in the autumn. In order to breed successfully they require two main resources. Firstly they need a large hollow in the limb of a Eucalypt tree.
Little Penguins are the smallest of all penguins and the only species to live permanently in Australian waters. Their range covers the southern coast of mainland Australia from Penguin Island in Western Australia to northern New South Wales and extending to Tasmania and New Zealand. Adults can grow to 40cms and weigh one kilogram.
The Djoongari once occurred on the mainland from the Shark Bay area across to Alice Springs. It is now only known naturally on one small island off the Shark Bay coast. These little rodents don't make deep burrows, instead they like to make tunnels and runways through vegetation such as sea grass piled up by storms on beaches.
The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a magnificent parrot widely distributed throughout Australia. A number of different subspecies occur, including large forms in the tropical north, a small and threatened subspecies in western Victoria and eastern South Australia, the Inland Red-tailed Black Cockatoo of scattered populations throughout western and central Australia and the Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo of the wetter south-west of Western Australia.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats are similar in size to
Common Wombats, but have softer, silkier, grey fur, longer
ears and fine fur on their slightly broader nose. A member
of the marsupial group, females have a pouch which opens
to the rear. They live in dry inland areas around the Great
Australian Bight, where low scrubby trees and grasses grow
on open plains. Here they dig large burrow complexes in which
five to ten Wombats may sleep during the day.
The Western Swamp Tortoise is on the verge of extinction
with less than 200 remaining. It was discovered in 1839
when a single specimen was collected and sent to the Museum
in Vienna, Austria. No further tortoises were seen for more
than 100 years and the species was feared extinct. Then,
in 1953, they were re-discovered when a boy found one crossing
a road in Upper Swan and took it to the W.A. Naturalist's Club
Wildlife Show.