Fauna

#CritterCorner – You might hear the fruit hit the forest floor before you spot the bird responsible. High in the rainforest canopy, Rose-crowned Fruit-doves (Ptilinopus regina) move quietly [...]

#CritterCorner – Imagine rounding a bend on a rainforest track and spotting a snake longer than a family car stretched out among the trees. Meet the Australian Scrub Python (Simalia kinghorni), [...]

#CritterCorner – When people think of kangaroos, they usually picture powerful animals bounding across open plains. Few would imagine that the smallest kangaroo in the world spends its life [...]

#CritterCorner – Imagine spending your entire adult life searching for a mate, without eating a single meal. That is exactly how the Hercules Moth (Coscinocera hercules) lives. Found in the [...]

#CritterCorner – Look high into the rainforest canopy on a warm Wet Tropics evening and you might spot a furry acrobat launching through the treetops. The Lemuroid Ringtail Possum (Hemibelideus [...]

#CritterCorner – Along the edges of rainforest waterways, you might catch a brief glimpse of blue moving low across the surface. That’s often the only sign an Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx [...]

#CritterCorner – With wingspans reaching up to 1.6 metres and distinctive pale rings around their eyes, Spectacled Flying-foxes are one of the most recognisable animals of Far North Queensland. [...]

Meet Flynn Hawkey! Flynn is a year 11 student at Trinity College South Australia who has a keen interest in the cassowary and it’s natural habitat. One of Rainforest Rescue’s four key [...]

Juvenile Southern Cassowary spotted at NightWings. Credit: Joe Reichl. Breaking News: Southern Cassowary Spotted South of the Daintree River! We’ve had a thrilling breakthrough in our restoration [...]

A recent study examined the internal anatomy of a cassowary casque in an attempt to better understand its evolution and ecological function.The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is one of [...]