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#CritterCorner – If you’ve ever watched a bird twist, dive and wheel through the air with astonishing precision, there’s a good chance you’ve spotted a Rainbow Bee-eater at [...]

#CritterCorner – Imagine the Daintree Rainforest without cassowaries. Many of the towering trees, dense foliage and incredible diversity of plants that make the Wet Tropics so special would [...]

#CritterCorner – Despite its name, the Common Mistfrog is no longer particularly common. Once found more widely throughout the Wet Tropics, this small rainforest frog is now classified as [...]

#CritterCorner – Would you believe us if we told you there are kangaroos that climb trees in the Daintree Rainforest? Introducing Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) and [...]

#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 [...]