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Australia: Kangaroos, Koalas, Wombats and other wonders.

Well if we are in Australia!
Evidence in pictures! :-)


We are in Brisbane and while Chum is in its conference, the kids and I went to spend a day at the Conservation Centre koalas.
It was a nice reward after a very dense school week ...

We have seen, of course lots of koalas, they would occupy in the center and make them reproduce.
Essentially they slept all the time, ate a bit of eucalyptus, move very slowly and ... ben the general opinion, they feel a little bad. This arboreal marsupial

(living in trees) is very threatened because humans have destroyed their habitat, the eucalyptus forests, to the patio tables and other ...

They also introduced predators (cats, dogs) and made roads. It is now protected, meaning they do more hunting for its fur and it has put on reserve, but as we continue to destroy habitat where this charming hairball not improve obviously ...

Other marsupial found in the conservation center and whose situation is dramatic, the Tasmanian devil. But there is a disease that decimates.

The wombat, yet another marsupial, a sort of guinea pig the size of a bear is not threatening to my knowledge. It is really big and he too has a certain smell of rodent ...


But the most fascinating animal in Australia, for me is Platypus (I shot one, look below) is a mammal that lays eggs, it has a beak that looks like a duck and a tail like the beaver, legs and a appearance of hair as the otter. It is poisonous. Good news is no longer endangered, like what sometimes happens to human redemption.

There was also a huge enclosure where they could enter, with red kangaroos and wallabies tame, who willingly allowed themselves to be stroked, I never thought that these animals were as sweet. These animals there are not threatened, it eats itself.

In the enclosure there were huge ostriches, some have dared to touch them, they looked very sweet, but I could not bring myself to leave children approach them too closely.

They are also trying to preserve the lizards, birds (eagles, owls), etc..
The lizard I photographed walking freely in the park, he did well 1m50.

They presented us with a snake of the family of pythons, black head, which found to Darwin.

Parrots, there everywhere since we arrived, even in the city they make a deafening noise at times. We have also seen in town at night and the park, sleeping, big bats.

Overall a great day with the animals of Australia and yet the message we have heard around the world, man destroys animal habitats and species are disappearing ... Believe that we still do, that this is not about the past, more than ever we exert unbearable pressure on our environment. There are few animals that did survive emblematic great publicity stunts and fund raising, but the vast majority invisible in the oceans, in dense forests, disappears without epitaph.