Year Seven - Australian Animals - Sciences - Library at Genazzano FCJ College

Books in the d'Houet Library

The library has a good collection of print resources for this task – check the shelves with call numbers from

595 to 599

for information relevant to your topic. Look for the titles that deal with Australian fauna.

College Bibliography Guide

A Guide to Writing Bibliographies
A Giide to Writing Bibliographies
This guide will help you create a bibliography or reference list for any task. The guide contains the agreed college style and requirements.

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Articles from our EBSCO database

Islands in Grassy Seas
The article presents the author's views on the wildlife of Australia which is found in the granite island mountains. Various mountains which attracted majority number of tourists includes Wave Rock in Western Australia, Mount Buffalo of Victoria and Uluru. Author further discusses ecological values of these inselbergs of Australia.
Creatures clawing their way back from the brink
A century after rats from a wrecked ship were thought to have eaten the last "land lobster" on a Pacific island, the species is now thriving in captivity and will soon return to its natural home (Ben Webster, Environment Editor, writes).
DRAGONS OF DISTINCTION.
The article offers information on the Agamidae species which are found in Australia. It is reported that, Agamidae species are also called dragons, and they are sit-and-wait predators, with the best vision among all the lizards that are found in Australia. It is reported that, the physical characteristic of Agamids which differentiates them from other lizards is that Agamids use their thick tongue to pick up prey, and they have teeth of various shapes in their jawbone.
Re-assessment of Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus population size and distribution of habitat in Kosciuszko National Park.
The New South Wales population of the Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus was estimated at 500 adults in 8 km² of boulder-heath habitat during surveys in the 1980's. In 1989, this estimate was increased to 1312 adults based on further surveys in four of the identified habitat patches. However, further research indicated that population density varied greatly between habitat patches and that the original extent of habitat and the revised population estimate had been overestimated.

Department of Environment and Heritage

Website provided by NSW government’s Department of Environment and Heritage and their Saving our Species program.

Australian Government - Department of Environment

A website provided by the Australian Government that provides a list of threatened fauna and information about their habitats and threats to their survival.

Brush Tailed Rock-Wallaby

Northern Corroboree Frog

Australian Animals

Click on the image above to explore an ABC Education website about Australian animals. Click on the image of the Australian animal you would like to research for further information - from the platypus, to cockatoo, to emu and much more!

Australian Government Department of Environment

Eastern Barred Bandicoot

Australian Geographic site

Images and commentary on some of Australia’s threatened species.

Zoo Victoria

Zoos Victoria’s page that provides information on their plans to restore viable populations of species of native animals that are currently under threat of extinction. Click on the image below for access to the site.