To all people who are or aren’t from Australia what would be your dream animal to see that lives in Aus?

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I don’t know what to put here. (This my first time)

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Put there your dream animal!

I would like to see a live thylacine. That would be cool.

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In one of the papers I did at uni I learned about tiger quolls, and how awesome they are. I would really love to see one of those one day.

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Yea they are I would love to see one myself and I’m pretty sure there Aus 2nd largest carnivorous marsupial sec to the Tasmanian Devil

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Yea true I wish I could see one too

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Wild budgies

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A Shingleback Skink or a Thorny Devil would be awesome! A Carpet Python would be cool too.

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Kangaroos and koalas, obviously, but also quokkas and frogmouths and also everything!

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Tasseled Wobbegong for me, or on land a tree kangaroo!

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A little bit changing the direction of the question (with time travel), but I would like to see the megafauna that existed in Australia (and everywhere else) before humans wiped them out

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The Triboniophorus nov “kaputar" Kaputar Pink Slug
For example, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253609295
They’re cool!!

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So many cool things there idk even where to start. At the top of the list might be the giant petaltail (the world’s largest dragonfly by body length) or any number of Euastacus species

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I’m yet to see a wild single back but as someone who’s seen a wild thorny devil… there so much cooler in person!

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Oh yes cool do you like the marine wildlife over then the wildlife on land?

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That’s actually sick! I’ve never even thought about it.

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Mine is a plant genus (sorry!), specifically, Banksia. I find them incredibly beautiful and diverse and intriguing, especially with regards to their place in the ecosystems.

(There are a number of species within the genus without Observations on iNaturalist, which makes me wonder what those look like.)

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Almost any Australian animal would be so different from anything I have experienced before. But since you asked me to choose: I would say those bowerbirds, to see them in their bowers.

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My opinion doesn’t count, because I’m in Australia, but my favourites to see are the orange-bellied parrot and the Hercules moth.

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Thorny devil. Someday…

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Worth it, see them at sunset. They do not disappoint

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