Category: Wildlife

Wildlife

ANZANG 2014 Animal Habitat shortlist

These images are short-listed for the 2014 ANZANG Nature Photographer of the year contest Animal Habitat category.

Wildlife

ANZANG 2014 Animal Behaviour shortlist

These images are short-listed for the 2014 ANZANG Nature Photographer of the year contest Animal Behaviour category.

Wildlife

Largetooth sawfish

This spectacular ray is on the brink of extinction

Wildlife

Gallery: Australia’s animal emblems

The gorgeous native animals are the emblems of our states and territories

Wildlife

Australia’s animal emblems

We take a look at the special native Australian animals chosen to be the mascots of our states and territories.

Wildlife

Saving the Oenpelli python

How could selling an iridescent python, which some believe is the rainbow serpent of Aboriginal mythology, help protect it?

Wildlife

Gallery: Christmas Island red crab migration

Each year, up to about 120 million red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) scuttle to the sea from the forest across Christmas Island in an effort to mate. It is a commute which overwhelms the island – the 135sq.km Australian-owned island, located in the Indian Ocean 2600km northwest of Perth, has just over 2000 human inhabitants.