Animals

Breeding season: any time of the year, after rains providing good conditions. Clutch size is three to four. Nest is on the ground where suitable cover can be found, such as under overhanging grasses, small shrubs or fallen branches. Nest itself is a scrape in the ground lined with grass or fine sticks. It sometimes has a hood and has a tunnel-like track leading to the entrance. The male incubates the eggs, broods and feeds the young.

Viviparous (live young) with a little size 8-40 (average 12).

The Red Kangaroo is the largest living marsupial. Adult males often fight each other in the breeding season, boxing with their front paws and kicking with their back legs. Females are sexually mature at about 18 months, males at about two years. A single joey is born at a time. The joey remains in the pouch for five to six months. The joey gradually spends time away from the pouch. Joeys are usually weaned at about one. Females can have three young with her at the same time - one as an embryo, one in the pouch and another out of the pouch still suckling.

Oviparous (egg laying) with a clutch size of two.

Breeding season: July to January in the south, and March to October in the north. Clutch size is one to three. They appear to mate for life. The bulky nest platform is built of sticks in a tall tree and may be reused, growing larger over time. Both sexes build the nest and incubate eggs (females do most of the work). Pairs actively defend the area around the nest.

The Water-rat is highly adapted to life in the water. Gestation is 34 days. Usually three to four young in a littler.

Breeding season: July to October. Males call from concealed floating vegetation within waterbodies. Eggs (pigmented) are found individually or in loose clumps, scattered around the bottom of ponds. Eggs and tadpoles can be found in ponds, dams, swamps, flooded grasslands and ditches.

The female pierces plant stems and inserts eggs into the slit produced. Eggs hatch into wingless nymphs that drop to the ground and burrow beneath the surface. The lives of nymphs are spent underground. As they grow they shed their skin at intervals. Adult cicadas live a few weeks only.

Breeds June-October. They are monogamous and mate for life. Established breeding pairs are territorial and will occupy the same area, defending their nest site from other Wedge-tailed Eagles and other intruders. The nest is a huge structure made from sticks, generally constructed in a tree fork or limb.

During daylight hours In summer, males leave their web and wander in search of females. The egg case looks woolly and is held in the web. The web consists of a few strands built under bark, stones or logs.