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Red Kangaroo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/red-kangaroo/The Red Kangaroo is an iconic Australian animal of the arid zone and is the largest living marsupial in the world.
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Central Bearded Dragon
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/reptiles/central-bearded-dragon/Like other species of Bearded Dragon, this lizard relies on more bluff than bite; trying to appear larger and spikier than it really is to any potential predator.
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Zebra Finch
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/zebra-finch-taeniopygia-guttata/With a time-span of 70 to 80 days from hatching to becoming sexually active, the Zebra Finch is one of the fastest maturing bird species recorded.
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Galah
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/galah/The name Galah comes from the Yuwaalaraay language word “gilaa”. In Australia, we call people galahs if they are acting silly or do something foolish. The Yuwaalaraay language area extends across north west NSW on the Barwon River into south west Queensland along the Culgoa and Balonne Rivers.
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Emu
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/emu/The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.
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Budgerigar
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/budgerigar/Since its introduction into captivity, the Budgerigar (or 'budgie') has been bred into a variety of colour forms, including pure white, blue, yellow, mauve, olive and grey. These colour morphs would not survive in the wild.
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