Warrandyte Animals

ANIMALS IN WARRANDYTE

They're are more than 100 animals of each kind in Warrandyte!
Koalas like Warrandyte, because there are lots of gum trees. Koalas look like a bear and like to eat gum leaves.
There are kangaroos in Warrandyte. Kangaroos are mammals like us, but unlike us the babies look nothing like their parents. After they are born, they grow in a pouch outside their mother's belly. Pouched mammals are known as Marsupials. Kangaroos and wallabies are made for hopping on two legs and not for walking or running.
All members of Kangaroo family live in Australia and the islands nearby. The babies of most marsupials roam inside their mother's pouch, until they are fully formed.
Kangaroos live in groups called mobs.
Swamp wallabies need to be more cautious than kangaroos. Swamp wallabies spend most of there day in shade. They can be hit by cars if they are not careful. by Adam and Stephen


Wombats are found in our State Park, but you don't see them often. Wombats are fat, little, and furry. They have sharp claws to dig burrows. There are burrows which wombats live in the State Park and around the Yarra River.


Platypus live in the Yarra river, they have bills like ducks. Platypus can range from 40-50 cm long. To colour your own platypus click here.


Ring tailed possums make their nests out of twigs and bark. The possums live in tall trees in our State Parks, even in people's houses! It is hard to see them in the day.



There are lots of cockatoos in Warrandyte and also rosellas. Sulphur crested Cockatoos are birds that eat leaves.


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Kookaburras are birds that like to laugh at you! They have a laughing call and often laugh to one another.


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Emus are not seen in Warrandyte, but they are in many outback areas of Australia.

The Rainbow Lorikeet is an Australian Parrot that lives in Warrandyte and eats berries and nuts off the local trees. It's feathers are Rainbow in colour.

The Echidna has spikes on its back. It has a long nose, to suck up ants to its mouth. We often see them walking along the roads and in the Parks of Warrandyte.

by Matt, Thomas, Adam S. Jarrad.

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