Australia's Cutest Animals.

As an Australian, I can boast that we have some of the most amazing and unique Fauna and wildlife on this planet! Not just the ones you can see in a Zoo, but also those which are seen by the keenest nature lovers with a lot of hours of patience! Then we also have the native animals that just warm our hearts.

Dingo Puppies.
Dingo have their litters with up to 4-6 pups, and they develop rapidly. Some Dingoes can have up to 10 pups, and they gain their independence by 4-5 months old. Dingo are native to Australia.

Quoll pups.
Australia is home to four species of Quoll... the northern, spotted-tailed, eastern, and western. They are also the closest relative to a Tasmanian devil.

Koala Joey.
Baby Koala's are called a joey. They are born in their mother's pouch and crawl out after about six months. Just a tiny jellybean shape. They climb onto their mother's backs and stay till they become independent, usually another six months.

Emu chick.
Baby Emu are called Chicks. The Mother Emu lays huge dark green eggs in clusters of anywhere from 5-20. The Father Emu is the baby sitter, he stays with the eggs till they hatch and brings them up, usually till they are about two years old. The mother goes off and has nothing to do with them.

Wombat Joey.
Baby Wombats are also called a Joey. Wombats are a Marsupial, which means they produce their babies inside a pouch. Also native to Australia, the Wombat is known and the "bulldozer" as it rams you hard and weighs a ton haha! A baby joey in it's mother's pouch can fully develop while also sharing it's pouch with another embryo, much like a kangaroo joey.
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Tasmanian Devil Pups.
Tasmanian devils can give birth to anywhere between 20-40 live babies, all the size of a grain of rice, after just 3 weeks of gestation. Only the fittest 4 will survive. They are born pink and hairless. The Tasmanian devil male will impregnate a harem of females but will guard them so they don't breed with any other males for life.

Baby Wedge-Tailed Eagle
A Wedge tail Eagle chick will grow to be the largest bird of prey in Australia. Wingspans have been recorded as big as 226 cm (7 ft 5 in). and one in 1931 was recorded at 284 cm (9ft 4inches). The mother lays 2 eggs in a huge nest, after 45 days they hatch, then once they reach six months they fly off from the nest and the mother's breeding season starts again. Wedge tailed Eagles pair off and stay together for life.
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Baby Echidna.
The baby Echidna, is called a Puggle... also know as a spiny anteater, grows to be an egg laying mammal. After just a gestation of 10 days the soft egg hatches, much like a soft crocodile egg, then the puggle will suckle on milk patches as they have no nipples, and they stay in her pouch feeding for 55 days till they grow a spine.

Kangaroo Joey.
The kangaroo joey is born in a pouch, after 33 days of gestation the little jelly bean size embryo will find it's way from the uterus all the way to the nipple inside the pouch, and stay for at least 190 days.

Baby Quokka.
A baby Quokka is called a Joey as well. They are one of the curtest and happiest marsupials in Australia. After just a month gestation the joey is inside the mother's pouch, much like a kangaroo, it will live inside there for 6 months, then leave the pouch, but they will still drink her milk for another 2 months.

Platypus baby.
A Platypus baby is called just that... a baby Platypus haha! They have duck bills, and beaver tails, and are the only egg laying mammals native to Australia. Both the male and females are born with a spur on their ankles, but just the males spur can deliver venom. It is their only defense and is not lethal to humans. The eggs develop inside the uterus for 28 days, then she lays them and they develop for another 10 days while she curls herself around them. They are much like a reptile egg, leathery.

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