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Backyard Buddies is an education initiative run by the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.
Get to know your local animals and plants. Find out how to help them thrive!
Visit www.backyardbuddies.org.au
Every winter, humpback whales migrate up to 10,000 kilometres from Antarctica to warmer sub-tropical waters along the Australian coast. Here, females will give birth, returning to Antarctica with their young in spring and summer. 🐋💗
Female humpbacks give birth every 2-3 years after a gestation period of 11 months. A humpback whale calf is between 3-4.5 metres in length and can weigh one tonne! Its mother’s milk has a 35% fat content, and a nursing calf can gain more than 45 kg daily during its first weeks of life!
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Humpback whale
December is here, and this month is all about wildlife’s youngest! Baby #BackyardBuddies! 🐣
All #wildlife have unique names for their young ones. Did you know that ‘joey’ is the term for young marsupials like kangaroos, koalas, wombats and possums?
A baby echidna is called a ‘puggle’, whereas whale and dugong young are ‘calves’. Newborn emus are known as chicks; young swans, cygnets; baby spiders, spiderlings; and baby crocodiles are hatchlings.
What other Aussie baby animal names do you know? 💚
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Emu chick by Greg Scales (CC BY 2.0)
Kangaroo joey by Sandid
Koala by Holger Detje
Baby Wombat by Bangor Vineyard Shed (CC BY 2.0)
Adorable pics