The students in Year Four at Fahan school have been working on a number of projects with relation to Indonesia. They have written about many of Australias's native fauna.
The Echidna
Like the platypus , the echidna or spiny anteater, mammal. The echidna are ununique in being the only egg - laying mammals . Echidnas are found only in Australia and New Guinea where they live in varied environments such as rain forests, scrublands and arid regions.
Echidna's are sometimes wrongly called porcupines, which are animals found in Europe and America. Echidns are small animals growing to about 50 cm in length including the snout which is long and tubular. The body is covered with course brown hair that is really spikey and if you touch it your finger will bleed.

by Prue and Ingrid

A Tasmanian devil is about the size of a small dog. It has short thick black fur with a white collar and a short tail. It is the largest meat eating marsupial that lives in Australia.
The devil usually hunts at night time to catch small birds and other small animals to eat with its strong powerful jaws. They like to live in caves or thick scrub.

byTahnee and Georgia.

LIZARDS Lizards are the biggest group of reptiles in Australia. There are over 3000 species in the world and 450 are found in Australia. They have a scaly skin that varies from green to all other colours. We can see them at national parks. I find that lizards are cute.

Elise