Koalas look cute but their claws inflict great pain

Emu

Quoll is the aboriginal name for Tiger Cat and is also known as the Spotted Native Cat

According to Aboriginal legend the white spots are spear marks

but it has to walk on its knuckles

because the web extends beyond its toes

Wombats like to live alone

                                Echidna

The Lyrebird can imitate twenty bird calls

The male bird displays his lyre-shaped tail as he performs his act of mimicking

Dingoes cannot bark - they let out a mournful cry

When it's in a moment of fear, spokes of scaly skin stiffen like an umbrella around the Frilled Lizard's neck

With it's large, open, brightly coloured mouth, incisor teeth, and hissing sound, its bluff can give you a fright

An awesome but amusing spectacle as it runs off on it's hind legs

An Aboriginal legend relates

that Bralgah, a pretty, young girl

was turned into a bird

because she was always dancing

instead of working