Wildlife

Rainforest wildlife tends to organise itself by layer. Canopy species rarely come down. Understorey animals rarely go up. Knowing which layer a species belongs to tells you more about where you'll actually see it than any distance marked on a track sign. Australia's rainforests also carry an unusually high rate of endemism. Species such as the southern cassowary or Lumholtz's tree kangaroo exist nowhere else, shaped by long isolation and very specific habitat needs.

The profiles here connect identification with behaviour and habitat, rather than treating each animal as a checklist item. That context is what turns a five minute sighting on a boardwalk into something worth remembering, and it's usually the difference between walking past a Boyd's forest dragon and actually noticing one.