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Lists of the animals−fauna of Oceania. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. A. Lists of amphibians of Oceania (1 C, 2 P)
Aquatic animals of Oceania (6 C) E. Endemic fauna of Oceania (15 C, 2 P) I. ... Pages in category "Fauna of Oceania" The following 2 pages are in this category, out ...
Animals, such as humans and rodents, form breeding or nesting colonies, potentially for more successful mating and to better protect offspring. The Bracken Cave is the summer home to a colony of around 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats , making it the largest known concentration of mammals.
The colonisation of Oceania includes: Colonisation of Australia; Colonisation of New Zealand; Colonisation of the Pacific islands; See also. Europeans in Oceania;
Oceania is a geographical region in the Pacific Ocean comprising Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. [2] [3] Numerous species across Oceania became extinct as humans moved across the Pacific. Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, and Hawaii have particularly large numbers of extinct species, so they listed in separate articles.
Between 1964 and 1975, conservationist Valerie Taylor saw the colony there reduce from over 200 animals to between 60 and 80 animals based on her own population counts in both years. She described noticing the difference in the animals response to humans from her early visit in the 1960s to her follow up in the 1970s, when the animals on both ...
The term Oceania is used because, unlike the other continental groupings, it is the ocean that links the parts of the region together. [31] John Eperjesi's 2005 book The Imperialist Imaginary says that it has "been used by Western cartographers since the mid-19th century to give order to the complexities of the Pacific area." [32]
Dog breeds originating in Oceania (4 C) F. Mammals of Fiji (8 P) H. Mammals of Hawaii (7 P) M. Mesozoic mammals of Oceania (2 C) N. Mammals of New Caledonia (6 P)