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THE HUMAN FRIENDLY NATURE OF AUSTRALIA

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ENIGMA OF OUR MOTHER NATURE The  fauna of Australia  consists of a huge variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit  the continent  are  endemic  to it.  This high level of endemism can be attributed to the continent's long geographic isolation,  tectonic  stability, and the effects of a unique pattern of climate change on the soil and  flora  over geological time. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native  placental  mammals. Consequently, the  marsupials  – a group of mammals that raise their young in a  pouch , including the  macropods ,  possums  and  dasyuromorphs  – occupy many of the  ecological niches  placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Australia is home to two of the five known extant species of  monotremes  and has numerous  venomous  spe...