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Australian animals quiz – do you know your quokka from your quoll?

How much do you know about Australian wildlife? 

Take the Australian animals quiz and see how much you know about the wildlife native to Aussie shores!

Everyone has heard of koalas and kangaroos but what do you know about quolls, quokkas and pademelons? 

What is the mammal emblem of Queensland?

Question 1

What is Australia's heaviest (and the world's most dangerous) bird called?

question 3

A platypus is a monotreme which means it is a mammal that..

platypus question

What is this?

bilby

What is this?

a quokka

How long was the biggest saltwater crocodile ever caught in Australia?

crocodile question

How many of the world's top 25 deadliest snakes live in Australia?

snake at the zoo

Dingoes can bark.

dingo on Fraser Island

Kangaroos and wallabies are marsupials that belong to a small group of animals called....

kangaroo having a lounge around

What famous Australian bird is this?

kookaburra on the fence

What are the correct names?

Quoll et al

What is this?

echidna on a branch

Wombats have square poo.

wombat

What marsupial is on Tasmania's Coat of Arms?

DEVIL ON THE COAT OF ARMS

Which whale migrates up the east coast of Australia to breed?

humpback whales off moreton island

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