Choose 3 Australian animals to be included in Science and Nature range!

Great news and wonderful for STS ! Thank you SCience and Nature !

My choices will be mix of endangered and least concern , marsupials , marine and reptile !! ( missing out on the feathered friends )
1. Varanus Giganteus (Goanna/ Perentie)
2. Handfish
3. Common spotted Cuscus

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Aquatic life needs some representation I chose the Amazing spotted  handfish (anglerfish )of Australia which is now critically endangered

Thank you Science & Nature.

1, Bird of Paradise
2, Lyrebird
3, Black-necked stork

Yes, I do prefer birds

1. Tree kangaroo

2. Common spotted cuscus

3. Long-beaked echidna

Rainbow Lorikeet
Quoll
Australian Bustard

All of which I saw in Oz. Ok the Quoll was a skin

Sergey wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Common spotted cuscus
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Perentie
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Comb-crested jacana
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But we could choose so many great species and I absolutely agree with all your lists

... I,m agree with Kiki!

.. I,m agree with Kiki!

No lyrebird ?

1. Common spotted cuscus
2. Tawny frogmouth
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3. Black-necked stork

Awesome opportunity!

I would be interested in a:

1. Tree Kangaroo

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2. Striped Possum

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3. Greater Glider

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Dingos

Catman wrote:

Dingos

S1N made already two dingos

Many thanks to Science and Nature for this opportunity!
Cockatoos are definitely my priority. Let's take two of them:
1. Galah the rose-breasted cockatoo - my [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] with no doubt!
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2. Major Mitchell's cockatoo
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And let number three be the largest monitor lizard native to Australia:
3. Perentie
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My choices based on unusual animals never made before (as far as I am aware):

Reptiles

Perentie
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Bird

Top Notch Pigeon OR Austrlian Ibis

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Mammal

We need tree kangaroos! My favourite is Goodfellowe's but that is from New Guinea so these are the two Australian ones.  I am surprised no one has ever asked for Tree Kangaroos from any of the brands before.....

Bennetts Tree Kangaroo
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Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo
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My choice :

Tiger quoll - Dasyurus maculatus

Tree Kangaroo - Dendrolagus sp.- any species

Australian Bustard - Ardeotis australis

This is wonderful
There are many, many fascinating animals in Australia, and here we see a lot of them

Nobody has explicitly said so, but this seems very focused on living animals. I for one would be most excited for some of Australia's interesting extinct animals, especially:

Soederberghia, a Devonian lungfish
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Canowindra, an early tetrapod relative
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Notochelone or Cratochelone, sea turtles of the Cretaceous
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I don't really collect extant animals, but if that's all Science and Nature produces in the future I will still be happy for those who get their wishes! :)

So many possibilities, but here goes:
1. Bird of paradise
2. Cane toad
3. Lyrebird

I would suggest:
Bush-turkey
lyrebird
tree kangaroo

hirscheber wrote:

I would suggest:
Bush-turkey
lyrebird
tree kangaroo

Welcome und willkommen aus Dresden :)

Tiger Quoll
Yellow footed rock Wallaby
Tree Kangaroo

widukind wrote:

hirscheber wrote:

I would suggest:
Bush-turkey
lyrebird
tree kangaroo

Welcome und willkommen aus Dresden :)

Hello, Hirscheber

I can see that you have been a member for several years, - good to see you come forward

SUSANNE wrote:

widukind wrote:

hirscheber wrote:

I would suggest:
Bush-turkey
lyrebird
tree kangaroo

Welcome und willkommen aus Dresden :)

Hello, Hirscheber

I can see that you have been a member for several years, - good to see you come forward

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Tree Kangaroo
Lyrebird
Zebra Finch

I used to have a small flock of pet zebra finches, they are a great bird. I think the wild version is preferable first, and they could always do repaints of domestic variants later.

My choices are:
Sugar glider
Perentie
Black flying fox

Thanks to all 45 members that voted with a incredibly diversified lot of suggestions.

The first selection of 10 species [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] are:

- Australian brushturkey (Alectura lathami)
- Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea)
- Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus)
- Greater bird of paradise (Paradisaea apoda)
- Perentie (Varanus giganteus)
- Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
- Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus)
- Western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)
- Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

As some suggestions were not made to the species level, these were validated to the corresponding species with the biggest number of choices.
List is sorted alphabetically and not according with the number of suggestions.