2007-12-25 05:10:29 · 6 answers · asked by Caysie101 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
There are fifty or so species of bat including eight flying foxes.
There are fifty or sixty species of rats and mice. These have evolved from perhaps one that arrived 15 million years ago. These do not include the introduced brown and black rats from Europe.
Theer are the monotremes, the platypus and echidna.
Dingoes arrived about 6000 years ago and replaced the thylacine on the mainland.
There are seals, sealions, dugongs and many species of whales around the coast.
Humans arrived between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago.
Since the Europeans arrived, we have mice, rats, rabbits, hares, foxes, cats, dogs, goats, sheep, pigs, buffalo, horses, donkeys, cattle and camels running wild. Fortunately we didn't get stoats or weasels, New Zealand was less fortunate there.
2007-12-25 09:40:10 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does.
Native to the continent- They have the Bottlenose Dolphin, Platypus, Enchidna, Furseal, and the Dugong.
Plus all those domesticated ones and all the ones that humans bought over.
2007-12-25 14:15:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bats, rats, mice and the Dingo (wild dog). Also the monotremes (egg laying mammals) platypus and echidna. And Aborigines.
2007-12-25 13:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by rectalogic 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yup. Many indigenous bat and mice species. Also whales, dolphins and dugongs
2007-12-25 14:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by t@ts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite a few. Among them:
Bats
Flying foxes
Dingoes
Echidnas
Platypus
Dolphins
Dugong
Seals
Whales
2007-12-25 13:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by Mera 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only those imported by humans.
2007-12-25 13:20:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋