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adail
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adail asked in Science & MathematicsZoology · 9 years ago

What are the natural predators of Australian native mammals?

Apart from the dingo, what predators are there for possums and kangaroos in Australia? I have been thinking lately about the fact that Australia has no large carnivores, and couldn't help but wonder what population controls there are for native species. What native predators are there? I know that foxes, dingoes, feral cats etc. are potential predators, but these aren't native (dingoes debatable). The only one I've come up with so far is the Tassie Tiger. But that is now extinct.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    The Quoll is a small marsupial predator. Before the arrival of the dingo the Thylacine lived on the mainland. Humans have been here for thousands of years too.

    [edit] I think the Tasmanian Devil is more a scavanger than a predator.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Native Australian Mammals

    Source(s): https://shorte.im/a8PXG
  • Betty
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    salt water crocs

    monitor lizard

    wedge tail eagles

    all the big ones died out or were hunted to extinction by humans, or just lost the habitat.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    ^ all of the above answers, as well as the tasmanian devil.

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