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Daintree Rainforest reptiles Daintree Rainforest reptiles include Australia's largest reptile, the Estuarine Crocodile and longest snake, Amethystine Python.  These two apex predators have a profound impact on ecosystem health and productivity. Magnificently adapted to the [...]

Daintree Rainforest Mammals Daintree Rainforest mammals include marsupials, monotremes, dasyurids, macropods, possums and a rich diversity of placentals, including primates, pigs, dingoes, bats, mice and rats.   The egg-laying mammals are seen very [...]

Daintree Rainforest insects - Cooper Creek Wilderness Daintree Rainforest insects are as rich in diversity, primitiveness and endemism as every other Daintree class, phyla and kingdom.  The list (below) catalogues what has been established [...]

Daintree Rainforest frogs Daintree Rainforest Frogs include the world's ancestral Hylid stock, Microhylids, Myobatrachids and Rana clades. Magnificently concealed for the greater part of the year, Daintree Rainforest amphibeans emerge in their thousands on nights that [...]

Daintree Rainforest Birds Daintree Rainforest Bird Phylogeny Palaeognathae - (Cassowaries) Casuariidae (Cassowaries) Southern Cassowary - Casuarius casuarius Neognathae - Galloanserae (fowls, ducks, & relatives) Galliformes (Megapodes) Brush Turkey (Alectura lathamii) Orange-footed Scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) [...]