Australia's wildlife

Australia is known to have the wonderful, unique and iconic wildlife, the unique wildlife are one of the reasons that so many people visit Australia,

but the native animals are actually often hard to spot in the wild, but if tourist's visit zoo's and and wilflife parks they are guarenteed to spot the animals. But how is the wildlife, and witch animals do they have?


Australia has more than 378 mammal species, 828 bird species, 4000 fish species, 300 species of lizards, 140 snake species and around 50 types of marine mammals



Fun fact! 
When European explorers first saw these strange jumping animals they asked the native Australians, the aborgine what they where called, The native replied "kangoroo" actually meaning "i do not understand you quastion" After this accident the explorers thought this was the name of the animal and that is how the kangoroo got its name. 



Sources:
http://www.apex.net.au/~mhumphry/austwild.html
http://www.australia.com/about/key-facts/australias-animals.aspx