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Platypus:Australia’s other monotreme, the quirky and shy platypus lives in the rivers, lakes and creeks of eastern Australia. Interestingly, their beaver-like tails are not used for swimming, but to store fat in case of a food shortage. Kaur, H.; Singh, R. (2011). "Two new species of Myxobolus (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) infecting an Indian major carp and a cat fish in wetlands of Punjab, India". Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 35 (2): 169–176. doi: 10.1007/s12639-011-0061-4. PMC 3235390. PMID 23024499. Whelan, Nathan V.; Kocot, Kevin M.; Moroz, Tatiana P.; Mukherjee, Krishanu; Williams, Peter; Paulay, Gustav; Moroz, Leonid L.; Halanych, Kenneth M. (9 October 2017). "Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (11): 1737–1746. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0331-3. ISSN 2397-334X. PMC 5664179. PMID 28993654. Davidson, Michael W. "Animal Cell Structure". Archived from the original on 20 September 2007 . Retrieved 20 September 2007.Srivastava, Mansi; Begovic, Emina; Chapman, Jarrod; Putnam, Nicholas H.; Hellsten, Uffe; Kawashima, Takeshi; Kuo, Alan; Mitros, Therese; Salamov, Asaf; Carpenter, Meredith L.; Signorovitch, Ana Y.; Moreno, Maria A.; Kamm, Kai; Grimwood, Jane; Schmutz, Jeremy (1 August 2008). "The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans". Nature. 454 (7207): 955–960. Bibcode: 2008Natur.454..955S. doi: 10.1038/nature07191. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 18719581. S2CID 4415492. Louis, Chevalier de Jaucourt (Biography) (January 2011). "Butterfly". Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016 . Retrieved 10 July 2016. a b c d e f g h i j Balian, E. V.; Lévêque, C.; Segers, H.; Martens, K. (2008). Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. Springer. p.628. ISBN 978-1-4020-8259-7. Hervé, Philippe; Lartillot, Nicolas; Brinkmann, Henner (May 2005). "Multigene Analyses of Bilaterian Animals Corroborate the Monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22 (5): 1246–1253. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msi111. PMID 15703236.

In scientific usage, humans are considered animals, in everyday nonscientific usage, humans are often not considered to be animals. Numbers and habitatsKangaroo:There are about 50 different types of kangaroos – including two that live in trees! Despite being the world’s largest marsupial, they are surprisingly great swimmers. With two kangaroos for every person in Australia, you have a good chance of spotting ‘rooson your visit.

Eurasian Animals– Eurasia has some of the rarest animals in the world, like Siberian Tigers and Snow Leopards.Genetics Research". Animal Health Trust. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2016.