Wild Australia: Marsupials and More

What this quiz asks

• Which small, round-faced marsupial is famous for its 'smile' and for turning up in tourists' selfies on Rottnest Island?
• The kookaburra is famous for a call that sounds like what?
• Which of these animals is the largest living marsupial?
• Koalas are a kind of bear.
• Select ALL of these animals that are marsupials.
• A diving platypus closes its eyes, ears and nostrils. How does it find food underwater?
• A male platypus can deliver venom through spurs on its hind legs.
• Is the cane toad native to Australia?
• Why does a wombat's pouch open towards its back legs rather than its head?
• Since the 1990s, what has caused the steepest fall in wild Tasmanian devil numbers?
• Why do many beaches in tropical northern Australia keep bottles of vinegar at stands by the water?
• Which snake of central Australia has the most toxic venom of any land snake, judging by laboratory tests?
• Order these Australian animals from lightest to heaviest typical adult weight.
• Which Australian bird is famous for mimicking other birds and even camera shutters and chainsaws?
• In 1932 Australian soldiers with machine guns were sent to Western Australia's wheat fields to cull which animals?
• Where does a mother echidna keep her egg until it hatches?
• Select ALL of these animals that are native to Australia rather than brought in by people.
• The bilby, a long-eared desert marsupial, is promoted in Australia as a replacement for which holiday animal?
• In what year did a British scientist first describe the platypus, from a dried skin sent over from Australia?
• What remarkable ability do female kangaroos have when it comes to having young?