Consumers (Animals)
The Wet Tropics is home to about a third of Australia's 315 mammal species - 13 of these species are found nowhere else in the world. They include unique green possums, ringtail possums, fierce marsupial cats, rare bats, tree-kangaroos, a rat-kangaroo, a melomys and an antechinus. There are many spectacular insects to see in the rainforest and surrounds. Invertebrates that inhabit these forests includes crustaceans, worms, beetles, ants, spiders, mites, scorpions, amblypygids, centipedes and millipedes, not to mention the snails and slugs. While the Wet Tropics is home to a quarter of Australia's frogs and a little over a third of the country's freshwater fish, it is also home to nearly half of Australia's birds - that's more than 370 different species.
- Some threatened animals of Queensland
- This flightless bird is a key stone species vital for seed dispersal in the
rainforest. It occurs in North Queensland’s Wet Tropics region and the Cape York
Peninsula.
Spotted-tail Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus gracilis) - A carnivorous marsupial often called the Tiger Quoll, it occurs in the Wet
Tropics region and has been threatened by the introduction of Cane
Toads.
Rattling Nursery Frog (Cophixalus hosmeri) - This microhylid lives in a small area north of Cairns and Mt Lewis between
800m - 1370m. This restricted habitat makes it extremely vulnerable to climate
change.
Southern or Double-wattled Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnstonii)