Kangaroos - A marsupial animal found in Australia.

Typically large kangaroos have sheep-like heads, large, movable ears, slender chests and heavy hind parts.  They have short front legs with five unequal digits and long, powerful hind legs with tendons that act like springs for energy-efficient hopping.

A large kangaroo can cover a distance of 9m in a single leap. A large kangaroo, although ordinarily timid, is dangerous when at bay, pummeling its attacker with its forepaws and slashing with its powerful hind legs. The long, muscular tail is used as a support when the animal sits or walks and for balance when it leaps.

The joey emerges permanently from -10 months and then stays with its mother, continuing to suckle by placing its head in her pouch, usually until it is 12-18 months old.

(Koala baby above...)

Koala - Although sometimes known as the native bear, the koala is in fact no relation to the bear family.

Kookaburra, a common name for four species of birds living in Australia.

 The laughing kookaburra, a stocky grayish bird about 46cm long, is the largest member of its family. The bird rarely catches fish, living mainly on large insects, mice, small birds and small snakes.

 Their habitat tends to be forests, woodlands and many suburban areas.

Australian possums are a diverse group of mammals, ranging from tiny gliding possums to large agile climbing brush-tails.

 The Brush-tail Possum is the most familiar of all the Australian possums. They are found in most areas where there are trees, especially open forests and woodlands.

 The Brush-tail Possum ranges in color from dark brown to silver/gray on the back and cream to pale gray on its underside. It has long oval ears, a pink nose and a big bushy tail, brown-black in color.

Pelicans - Pelicans are the Jumbo Jets of the birds. This huge bird has to build up speed by running over the water while flapping its wings. It similarly needs a "runway" when it lands.

 Pelicans fly by using hot air currents to lift them high into the sky - sometimes as high as 10,000 feet (3km). That makes it possible for pelicans to travel hundreds of kilometers without the need to flap its wings to any great extent. If it had to sustain flight by flapping its wings, it would not get very far because it is a heavy bird and it would soon be exhausted.

 Pelicans are coastal birds living off fish but when it wants to breed, the Australian pelican prefers to nest along in-land lakes, rivers and dams. To get there, some fly hundreds of kilometers and some as much as a thousand kilometer to get to an in-land body of water.

The Lyrebird is one of the largest perching birds,named for its lyre-shaped tail. They have a small head, long neck, long legs, large feet with long powerful claws and a long tail. When the tail of the male is raised during courtship and expanded during display, it gives the appearance of a lyre (hence its name) with the gracefully curved outer plumes forming the framework. Although this bird can fly, it seldom does.

The Common Wombat is a large, heavily built marsupial. t is usually a metre long from nose to tail and about 35cm high. It has short powerful limbs with strong flattened claws for digging and has coarse brown or black fur.