🇦🇺 Animals of Ashmore and Cartier Islands

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The Australian magpie is a black and white songbird of open country in Australia and southern New Guinea.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The clownfish lives inside the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, which it cleans and defends in return.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The dugong is a large marine mammal that grazes seagrass in warm, shallow coastal water from East Africa to Vanuatu.

The emu is a tall flightless bird found only in Australia, and no native bird there stands higher.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The gentoo penguin is the third largest penguin and the fastest swimmer of the family.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The king penguin is the second largest penguin, an orange-throated bird of subantarctic island beaches.

The koala is a tree-living marsupial from eastern Australia.

The leopard seal is a long, spotted seal of the Antarctic pack ice that hunts penguins, seals, fish and krill.

The little penguin is the smallest penguin in the world, a slate-blue seabird of New Zealand and southern Australia.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The monarch butterfly makes the longest migration of any insect.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The osprey is a large brown and white raptor that lives on fish and hunts by plunging feet first into water.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The platypus is an egg-laying mammal of the rivers of eastern Australia.

The quokka is a small, stocky wallaby of south-western Australia, best known from Rottnest Island near Perth.

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and the largest animal in Australia.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile.

The southern cassowary is a huge flightless bird of the rainforests of New Guinea and northeast Australia.

The southern elephant seal is the largest seal on Earth, and a bull can weigh more than four times as much as a cow.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The sugar glider is a small nocturnal marsupial of eastern Australia that glides between trees on a furred membrane.

The thylacine was a striped, dog-shaped marsupial predator of Tasmania, mainland Australia and New Guinea.

The wedge-tailed eagle is Australia's largest bird of prey, named for its long diamond-shaped tail.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.