TAMMAR WALLABY

Taken on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, January 2019

108                     TAMMAR WALLABY                Macropus eugenii

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Also known as Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby. Severely reduced range and also introduced into New Zealand.  Has the ability to drink sea water. Nocturnal; spends nighttime in grassland and daytime in scrubland. Herbivorous.

SPINNER DOLPHINS

Photographed from shore on Christmas Island, December 2018

107                  SPINNER DOLPHINS                Stenella longirostris

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Sometimes referred to as Long-snouted Dolphin. Found off-shore in tropical waters around the world.    It has four sub-species. 

Photographed off Ashmore Reef, Western Australia, November 2019

GRASSLAND MELOMY

Photographed on Coburg Peninsula, October 2018

106                             GRASSLAND MELOMY                     Melomys burtoni

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Also known as Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat, and locally as Rusty or Rusties.  Abundant in grasslands, sedge lands, cane fields, edges of rainforests, sclerophyll forest and wetland with grassy understorey; in NT and Wa in grassland, riparian vegetation, monsoon forest and mangroves. Nocturnal. Terrestrial but adept climber. 

BALI BANTENG

Photographed on Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory, October 2018

105.                BALI BANTENG.                    Bos javanicus

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Also called Bali Cattle. Introduced. Domesticated form of Banteng, a wild ox of S-E Asia. Twenty introduced into Coburg Peninsula in 1849 from Bali. Now confined to peninsula. Supposedly population of 2000-3500 controlled for safari hunting. Nocturnal and crepuscular, nervous and alert. Shelters during the day and feed on open areas at night. Grazes on sedges, trees and shrubs, sometimes seaweed.

ASH-GREY MOUSE

Photographed on Hi Vallee Farm, Badgingarra, Western Australia, September 2018

104                     ASH-GREY MOUSE                    Pseudomys albocinereus

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Confined to sw WA from Shark Bay to Israelite Bay and several off-shore islands. Widespread but not common in remnants of sand plain heath and tall scrubland with tussock-grass understory. Nocturnal.

BLACK-FOOTED ROCK WALLABY

Photographed at Simpson's Gap, Northern Territory, April 2018

103                 BLACK-FOOTED ROCK WALLABY                    Petrogale lateralis

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Also known as Black-flanked Rock Wallaby. Vulnerable; declining due to fox deprivation. Timid, doesn't venture far from rocks; shelters in crevices and caves. Nocturnal but basks in sun; feeds on grasses and forms. Widely scattered ranges of central and Western Australia.

FAT-TAILED DUNNART

Photographed south of Lightning Ridge, NSW, March 2018

102                      FAT-TAILED DUNNART                    Smithopsis crassicaudata

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                102

Common and widespread in variety of open habitats in s. and central mainland; tussock and hummock grassland, gibber plain, saltbush and bluebush plains, playpens, rough pasture and edges of  stubble paddocks. Nocturnal, terrestrial, forages for invertebrates in open spaces near cover; shelters in communal nests.