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Tagged: Australian animals
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Cute and cuddly, furry or feathered, slippery or scaly; our collection of Australian native animals - both real and imagined - will charm and delight you.
The following selection of films, sounds...
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Songlines: Songs of the East Australian Humpback Whales (1992–2008) features humpback whale song recordings taken off the coast of Eastern Australia during their cycle of migration between their...
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Willie Wombat was produced by Eric Porter – Australia’s first career animator – to promote the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia’s School Banking program. Willie lounges and plays while the...
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The kangaroo introduces Dot to Mr and Mrs Platypus, who are difficult to be polite to, because they are easy to offend. Mr Platypus (voiced by Spike Milligan) gives Dot a history lesson. Mrs Platypus...
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Dot and the Kangaroo (1977), based on a children’s book by an English writer, Ethel Pedley, was the just the second animated feature film made in Australia.
In this clip Dot (voiced by Barbara...
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Presenter Greg Grainger visits the home of Bev and Bob Birtles. They are caring for Yindi after he was rescued from a bushfire and will eventually return him to the wild. Grainger then introduces us...
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A wombat forages in the snow of the Mt Kosciuszko National Park looking for grasses and roots to eat in this documentary that follows three friends on a skiing trip in the NSW snowfields.
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This episode of the series Australian Wildlife is about the platypus. Like the echidna, the platypus is a monotreme - the only mammals whose young are hatched from eggs.
This film shows the platypus...
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This film from the series Australian Wildlife contains information about the treatment of crocodiles both within Australia and New Guinea prior to the passing of a crocodile protection law in...
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The Queen in Australia documents the two-month official visit, in February and March 1954, of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. This was her first visit to...