Unique Australiananimals

There are unique animals in Australia, such as the koala, the Australian Pelican, the Wallaroo, the Sawfish, the Emu and the Australian Fur Seal.


Koalas are ash grey with a white chest, thick fur, fluffy ears and a broad flat nose. Thet have strong limbs and large hands to climb trees. Surprisingly they have a short stumpy tail which is of no assistance to then in climbing at all. The koala survives on Eucalypt leaves.

Pelicans are big birds with a very large wingspan, large beaks. Australian Pelicans are white in colour with black markings on their tail. Their eyes are brown and white. Their bills and very large and pink and is the longest beak of all the types of Pelicans in the world. Their legs and feet are blue-grey in colour. They are so buoyant they cannot sink under water. In Australia, wherever there is water you can possibly find Pelicans.

 The male Australian Fur Seal weighs up to 360 kgs and is approximately 2 metres long. They are dark greyish to brown with a paler underside, and a dark mane of coarse hair over the neck and shoulders. The lifespan of an Australian Fur Seal male is roughly 19 years.

Fur Seal females are smaller and lighter than their males. Females weigh up to 100 kgs and are 1.7 metres in length. Females vary in colour from pale fawn to grey to greyish brown to silver gray, with a pale throat and brown underside. Their lifespan is roughly 21years.