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Australian mammals
A total of 379 species of mammals have been recorded in Australia and surrounding continental waters; 357 indigenous and 22 introduced. 83% of mammals are endemic to Australia. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental mammals. Consequently the marsupials—a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods, possums and dasyuromorphs—occupy many of the ecological niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Australia is home to two of the 5 known extant species of monotremes.
The settlement of Australia by Indigenous Australians between 48,000 and 70,000 years ago [3] (research in 2011 using DNA suggesting an arrival around 50,000 years ago),[4] and by Europeans from 1788, has significantly affected the fauna. Hunting, the introduction of non-native species, and land-management practices involving the modification or destruction of habitats have led to numerous extinctions. Some examples include the Paradise Parrot, Pig-footed bandicoot and the Broad-faced Potoroo. Unsustainable land use still threatens the survival of many species. To target threats to the survival of its fauna, Australia has passed wide-ranging federal and state legislation and established numerous protected areas.
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| Agile wallaby |
Allied Rock Wallaby |
Australian Fur Seal |
Barred-bandicoot |
Bilby |
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| Black tailed Rat |
Bridled Nailtailed Wallaby |
Brown Antechinus |
Common Brushtail Possum |
Common dolphin |
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| Common Wombat |
Fat tailed Dunnart |
Feral Buffalo |
Feral-pig |
Feral Rabbit |
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| Dingo |
Eastern Grey Kangaroo |
Eastern Quoll |
Echidna |
Echidna |
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| Ghost-Bat |
Golden-Bandicoot |
Greater glider |
Koala |
Kultarr |
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| Hare-Wallaby |
Long nosed Potoroo |
Long nosed Potoroo |
Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo |
Malla |
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| Mountain Brushtail Possum |
Mulgara |
Platypus |
Red Kangaroo |
Red Kangaroo |
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| Spinifex Hopping mouse |
Stripe-faced Dunnart |
Sugar glider |
Swamp Wallaby |
Western Grey Kangaroo |
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| Nail-tailed Wallaby |
Northern Quoll |
Plains Rat |
Proserpine Rock Wallaby |
Quokka |
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| Red-necked Pademelon |
Red-tailed Phascogale |
Ringtail Possum |
Rufous Bettong |
Spotted-tailed Quoll |
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| Stick-nest Rat |
Tasmanian Devil |
Tasmanian Devil |
Water rat |
Western Quoll |
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| Yellow-bellied Glider |
Flying Fox |
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