Australia. Guide to Australia

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Lirohvost or bird-liryo ( Menuridae) - A family of passerine birds inhabiting Australia and includes two types of.

* Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
* Alberts Lyrebird (Alberti Menura) - A bird slightly smaller than the Superb Lyrebird, their maximum 90 cm for males and 84 cm in women.

Alberts Lyrebird was named in honor of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, it is less showy appearance than the Superb Lyrebird, and is found only in small areas Квинсленда.

The name of the Lyrebird was a truly spectacular because of its tail, which consists of 16 highly modified feathers - two long feathers in the middle of the tail, Two broad feast aimed at an angle to the first, and 12 in between.

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Wild dingo. Dingo ( Canis lupus dingo) – again became the home of wild dog, the only placental carnivore in Australia. Dingo especially numerous in the northern, central and western Australia.

Name «dingo» appeared at the beginning of European colonization New SW. Wales and more likely to happen «Tingo» – term, use native to describe their dogs.

In Australia, the owners of escaped or abandoned dingoes found the perfect conditions for habitat, there are many game, the absence of enemies and competitors, because of this, they multiplied and spread across the continent and nearby islands, without hitting only Tasmania.
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Marsupial Mole (Notoryctes) – kind of marsupial mammals and the only Australian marsupials, leading an underground life appearance. Marsupial moles live in the sandy deserts of central and northern share Zap. Australia, in Northern Areas and the west Yu. Australia, often caught in the middle of sand dunes and river dunes.
The genus of marsupial moles 2 View:

* Notoryctes typhlops.
* Notoryctes caurinus.

they differ only in size and some features of the device body. Regardless, marsupial mole that has been known since ancient times natives, a scientist he was only 1888 G., When livestock accidentally found sleeping under a bush animal.

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