2006-08-20 20:31:52 · 14 answers · asked by Amarnath 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The dog without any doubt. Dingoes, a breed of domestic dog, were first introduced from Indonesia around 5, 000 years ago. Cats and pigs were probably introduced by Malayan fishermen around 500 years ago. Other species were introduced by Europeans within the last 200 years.
>>>Rfitqc_Aussie said "It was the dingo when the aborigines first
>>> came over.
Aborigines were in Australia for over 40, 000 years before the first dingoes were imported from Indonesia. Hardly when they "first came over".
2006-08-20 21:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the Dingo. The first humans came on small boats so it's unlikely that rats could have hid on the boats. But they might have brought other domestic animals with them. We know that the Maoris brought rodents to New Zealand but they got extinct. Similar things could have happened in Australia, it's much longer ago so we'll probably never know.
The Dingo is not the oldest placental mammal in Australia, though. Some mice where there already long before humans, presumably the traveled on driftwood.
2006-08-21 04:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe some of these answers. The
kangaroo and the platypus, of course are native
Australian mammals. The cat, rat and rabbit came
in with the Europeans in the 1700's or 1800's.
The dingo, a wild dog, was apparently brought by
the aborigines thousands of years ago, so it was
the first.
2006-08-21 09:22:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Common Cat the other mammals were there the were indigionous to australia. I know they are upset by the common cat hurting all their little mammals that had not predators before. They had the dingo before so I guess it would not be a dog.
2006-08-21 03:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by adobeprincess 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bloody yanks!
It was the dingo when the aborigines first came over.
Yes, it is a placental mammal.
2006-08-21 05:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Platypus in 1939, it is the oldest fossil to be found in Australia.
2006-08-21 03:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by E.F. Landeros 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rabbit.
2006-08-21 03:37:20 · answer #7 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rabbits I think. It is a pest now in Australia.
2006-08-21 03:40:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rabbits.
2006-08-21 03:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
probably the rat
2006-08-21 03:35:15 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋