Top 5 Purse Bearers

When people hear of purse bearer animal, they usually imagine of kangaroos immediately, leaving behind other ones. However, it is a fact of common knowledge that Australia is the endemics’ territory, or, at least, the biggest concentration of endemic animals on one area. This leads to a logic conclusion that purse bearers are represented not only with kangaroos, but other species, which live in the same conditions and habitat. Top 5 marsupial animals include:1. Already mentioned kangaroo might be met in both wildlife and tourist area. On the contrary, there are other kangaroo-related species besides the three main – western, eastern grey and red. They are: wallabies, wallaroos, tree kangaroos and kangaroo rats. The entire range of this species keeps the night way of life, especially in wildlife habitat. In contrast, they are likely to be met in daytime in travel zones.2. Tasmanian devil is, probably, one of the mysterious purse bearers, which was favored in numerous legends. This species was considered the cruelest a few centuries ago. Their aggressiveness is specifically observed while they are defending or standing for their females (who can oppose that?). As kangaroos, they are nighttime animals, which usually are occupied with searching food: reptiles, carrion, insects and what so ever devil can find.3. The other symbol of Australia is koala, purse bearer usually mistaken for a bear. Frankly speaking, it is pretty lazy animal. It does not drink at all, but sleeps 20 hours per day! So, if koala did want to drink water, it is unlikely to spend extra time on seeking a spring!4. The only marsupial species, which does not reside in Australia, is possum. In prehistoric times, placental mammals from North America have spread to the south, displacing marsupials. Opossums were the only one not to get on the edge of extinction and notably return to the north. Possums are one of the most primitive marsupials. All of them are predators or carnivorous, and usually occupy a niche of insectivorous animals, which are in Central and South America. Curiously, if an opossum is scared, it "faints" - falls without movement, mouth is full of frothy saliva, eyes look like glasses and glands emit an unpleasant odor of putrefaction. A rare predator will eat such a prey.5. Terrestrial living and climbing trees is a perfect way of life for marsupial rats. They eat insects and small vertebrates of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania Island.