Mammals
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phascolarctidae
Family: Phascolarctidae
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
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Not native to WA or NT but seen in a pen at Yanchep NP (WA)
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Family: Potoroidae
Woylie (Bettongia penicillata)
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One seen at night at Dryandra NP (WA) on 23/04
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Family: Macropodidae
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Family: Pteropodidae
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Family: Suidae
Feral Pig (Sus domesticus)
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Seen each day in Kakadu NP
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Family: Bovidae
Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalus)
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Seen on Yellow Water cruise Kakadu NP
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Imported in C19 to provide meat for remote northern settlements. The settlements and their buffalo were abandoned and the buffalo spread and continue to cause serious damage to native habitats and their wildlife. A culling programme by shooting from a helicopter from 1979 to 1997 was almost successful in wiping them out - but their populations have since recovered.
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Family: Delphinidae
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) |
Fremantle on the Swan River |