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Description. The fawn hopping mouse is a medium sized rodent weighing between 30 and 50 g (1.1 and 1.8 oz) with a head and body length between 10 and 12 cm (3.7 to 4.7 in). [5] [2] [6] Its bi-coloured tail is longer than the length of the body reaching a length of 12–16 cm (4.7 to 6.3 in) ending with a tuft of dark hairs.
The spinifex hopping mouse ( Notomys alexis ), also known as the tarkawara or tarrkawarra, occurs throughout the central and western Australian arid zones, occupying both spinifex -covered sand flats and stabilised sand dunes, and loamy mulga and melaleuca flats. The population fluctuates greatly: in normal years it is sparsely distributed and ...
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
The dingo was the first placental mammal introduced to Australia by humans. Australia has indigenous placental mammals from two orders: the bats, order Chiroptera, represented by six families, and the mice and rats, order Rodentia, family Muridae. Bats and rodents are relatively recent arrivals to Australia.
The red kangaroo ( Osphranter rufus[ 5]) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the eastern and southeastern coasts, and the rainforests along the northern ...
Bare-backed fruit bat. Bennett's tree-kangaroo. Black flying fox. Black-footed tree-rat. Black-striped wallaby. Bramble Cay melomys. Bridled nail-tail wallaby. Brown antechinus. Brush-tailed mulgara.
You’re having fun playing golf and then a mob of kangaroos suddenly interrupts your round.. Golfer Stephen Roche must have thought he’d gone hopping mad when he saw the stream of ‘roos ...
The long-tailed hopping mouse ( Notomys longicaudatus) is an extinct species, which was widespread in the drier regions of southern and central Australia. It dug burrows in stiff, clay soils. It liked raisins, but was not a pest to the stores of settlers. Only a handful of specimens were collected and the last record dates from 1901, although ...