A blue jewel of our rainforest creeks: The Lamington Crayfish
The Lamington Spiny Crayfish is limited to the rainforest creeks above 600 metres in Southeast Queensland. Learn about them and their life cycle.
Rainforest Ecology
Yellow-throated Scrubwrens: Designer nests to avoid predation
The Yellow-throated Scrubwren has designed a nest that makes it difficult for a predator such as a carpet python to access their precious eggs and chicks.
Rainforest: Millipedes, snails and spiders
In the sub-tropical rainforest of SE Queensland, many invertebrates are cryptic and nocturnal. It’s one way of avoiding the many daytime predators including birds.
The winter breeding behaviour of the logrunner
The small iconic logrunner has developed a strategy to protect its chicks from predators. By breeding in winter when some predators including pythons and currawongs are less active.