Interactive Australia
Australia has been an island for so long that its animals are like no others: mammals with pouches, mammals that lay eggs, and birds that laugh. Choose a place and one will follow you.
Three places to discover
Outback
A red kangaroo, an emu, a dingo, a frilled lizard, a wedge-tailed eagle and a thorny devil.
6 animals
Bush
A koala, a wombat, a kookaburra, an echidna, a cockatoo and a Tasmanian devil.
6 animals
Billabong
A platypus, a saltwater crocodile, a black swan, a barramundi, a long-necked turtle and a pelican.
6 animals
Things to do
A continent of its own
Most of Australia's mammals, reptiles and frogs live nowhere else on Earth. That makes them special, and it also means that if they are lost here, they are lost everywhere.
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