A Marvel of Nature: the Tasmanian Wilderness: UNESCO Culture Sector

This is a spiny anteater. It uses its long snout to catch ants. The creature lays eggs and also breastfeeds its babies. The platypus like the spiny anteater is also a mammal.

Night is approaching in the forest. This is a Common wombat. They are marsupials and carry their young in their abdominal pouch just like Kangaroos. Common wombats keep their babies in their pouch for 6 months. There are more than 15 species of marsupials on the island. The Tasmanian Devil is the only one that is carnivorous. They name devil was given because the animal eats dead meat. But the fact is that they are just too slow to catch living animals.

This is the Red sea, an exceptional marine landscape. Deep sea creatures normally found at a depth in excess of 200 meters can be found here in shallow water just 5 meters deep. What makes this water red is a compound called Tannin. Tannin from plants surrounding the bay has been released into the water. The red pigment blocks out sunlight and keeps the shallow water as dark as the deep ocean. This is an Elephant fish. A very rare abyssal fish also found here. This fish walking on the sea floor belongs to the sea robin family. Studies have only recently revealed that these species of deep-sea fish is living here. The Tasmanian Wilderness, a mysterious but astonishing world of nature that never ceases to amaze.