My friend and I have a debate about the Aborigines having a lion slapping cermony into adulthood - I don't think there were lions in Australia origanally, though....
2007-06-19 10:40:12 · 5 answers · asked by Kat 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
There was a large carnivorous marsupial called thylacoleo which was called a marsupial lion but it is unrelated to the lions of Africa and Asia. There are no large native placental mammals in Australia apart from marine mammals such as seals, sealions, whales and dugongs. The only placental mammals apart from that are some rats and mice and the bats.
There has never been a land bridge between Australia and Asia since the rise of mammals so placental mammals never got there except some small migrants that would have arrived with floating vegetation or flown in.
2007-06-19 12:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fossil remains of a marsupial lion were discovered here in Australia a few years back. But in modern times, no, there are no large cats native to Aus.
2007-06-19 11:32:14 · answer #2 · answered by PJJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Lions were origanally from the savannas in the middle east of africa, and won't survive the scrub. They won't have food and won't eat kangaroos.
2007-06-19 10:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by AvesPro 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they aren't. There was a wolf like marsupial called the Tazmanian Tiger, but they are now extinct.
2007-06-19 12:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-06-19 11:41:34 · answer #5 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋