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Often confused with rodents, bandicoots are small, omnivorous marsupials.

Bottlenose dolphins are mammals and can swim up to 260 metres below the surface of the ocean.

Bowerbirds are very closely related to birds of paradise, and species of bowerbird are found in many parts of Australia and New Guinea.

Brush-tailed possums are the most abundant, widely distributed and frequently encountered of all Australian marsupials.

Echidnas, together with the platypus, are the world's only monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.

The word emu comes from the Portuguese word 'ema', which means 'large bird'.

Flying-foxes are nomadic mammals that travel across large areas of Australia, feeding on native blossoms and fruits, spreading seeds and pollinating native plants.

The grey-headed flying fox is listed as a threatened species and is protected by law because numbers have rapidly declined over a relatively short period of time.

Human infections from viruses borne by flying foxes are very rare. There is no risk of infection if you do not make physical contact with a flying fox.

A flying-fox camp is a patch of trees that flying-foxes are found in during the day. Living near these camps can sometimes be a problem, but there are ways to minimise the disturbance camps can cause.