Question

(DETAIL)Describe the flora and Fauna
of Australia IN POINTS ​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. More than 80 per cent of the country's flowering plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia, along with most of its freshwater fish and almost half of its birds.

2. Australia's marine environment is home to 4000 fish species, 1700 coral species, 50 types of marine mammal and a wide range of seabirds.

3. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental mammals. Consequently, the marsupials –

4. a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods, possums and dasyuromorphs –

5. occupy many of the ecological niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world.