INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN

Photographed at Tin Can Bay, Queensland, January 2021

 

129                   INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN             Sousa chinensis

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS               129       

Distributed in decorate populations in estuaries and shallow rocky reef areas. 

COMMON SPOTTED CUSCUS

Photographed in Iron Range, Queensland January 2021

128                 COMMON SPOTTED CUSCUS                   Spilocuscus maculatus

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS               128         

Found in rainforests from sea-level to the summit of Mcllwraith Range, but also in Nipa Palms, mangroves, paperbarks, riparian vegetation and open forest near rainforest.

 

SUGAR GLIDER

Taken at Mungo Brush NP, December 2020

 127                   SUGAR GLIDER                  Petaurus breviceps

AUSTRALIA                127

Small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal marsupial.

NOTE: Sugar Glider has been split into three separate species. This is the species now know as Sugar Glider. 

BROWN ANTECHINUS

Taken at Mungo Brush NP, December 2020

126               BROWN ANTECHINUS              Antechinus stuartii

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                126

Found along great Dividing Range and coastal plains from Kioloa, NSW to se Queensland in wide range of habitats: rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland, heath - from sea-level to sub-alps. Mostly nocturnal. Gleans invertebrates from litter and fissures in tree trunks.

COMMON DUNNART

Photographed south of Rankin Springs, NSW, April 2020

125                COMMON DUNNART                   Sminthopsis murina

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                  125

Also known as Mouse Dunnart. Widespread in variety of heathy dry sclerophyll forest and mallee heath across eastern Australia from Cooktown to near Sydney, then sweeping inland to near Adelaide and across western Victoria. Locally common in se Queensland and ne NSW, rare elsewhere. Nocturnal terrestrial carnivore, eating mostly insects and spiders.

BIG-EARRED FLYING FOX

Photographed on Saibai, Torres Straits, March 2020

124                 BIG-EARRED FLYING-FOX                   Pteropus macrotis

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS.       124

Also known as Large-earred Flying Fox. Eats mainly fruits. Distributed across Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and islands I the Torres Straits; found on Boigu and Saibai.. Often in coastal mangroves.

DWARF SPINNER DOLPHINS

Photographed near Ashmore Reef, Western Australia, November 2019

123                       DWARF SPINNER DOLPHINS                Stenella roseiventris

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                123

A dwarf form of the spinner dolphin. First found in the Gulf of Thailand; found in Eastern Pacific and  Gulf of Thailand. Eats ethnic fish in reefs and shallow waters.