Temperate rainforests grow in higher latitudes than tropical
rainforests.
Because they grow in cooler climates, the animal species
found here are different from tropical
rainforest animals.
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Here is some
information on animals in temperate rainforests in Australia.
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Animals
of Temperate Rainforests
In Australia, there are two different types of temperate rainforests:
warm (Victoria,
South
Australia, New
South Wales and even in places in southern Queensland);
and cold (Tasmania).
Animals found in the warm temperate
rainforests on mainland Australia are common wombats, eastern grey kangaroos,
swamp wallabies, ringtail possums, echidnas,
eastern pygmy possums,
sugar gliders and feathertail gliders. In
Tasmanian cold temperate rainforests, there are Bennetts wallabies,
Tasmanian Pademelons, common wombats,
brushtail possums, eastern quolls,
common ringtail possums, spotted tailed
quolls and Tasmanian
Devils.
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Birds of Temperate
Rainforests
Birds found in the warm temperate rainforests on Australian mainland
are forest ravens, Cape Barren Geese, eastern curlews
and many parrots
like Rainbow Lorikeets and Crimson Rosellas. In Tasmanian cold
temperate rainforests, there are Tasmanian native hens, masked
lapwings, yellow tailed black cockatoos,
green rosellas, common bonzewings,
Tasmanian scrub wrens, yellow and little wattlebirds and thornbills.
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