Australian Geographic

Happy World Frog Day! 🐸 Meet the green tree frog in amplexus – the special embrace where males cling tightly to females during mating. 📺: Australian Geographic Extraordinary Animals #ausgeo #extraordinaryanimals #wildlifephotography #worldfrogday #greentreefrog

There’s a lot we don’t understand about frog sex. But what we do know is that no one species approaches sex the same as another, making for an interesting array of bizarre froggy positions and loud, passionate mating calls. 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/frogsex Happy world frog day!

How beautiful are humpback whales in migration? 🌊 📺 Outback (2018) is a three-part documentary series from our sister company Northern Pictures. #ausgeo #agadventure #humpbackwhale #marineanimals #kimberley

If anyone needs us we'll be swanning around 🖤 🦢

“Nature revives my spirits when I’m feeling down. Think of watching an eagle soar upwards until it disappears into the blue, leaving the worries of the world behind,” writes Roger Smith. 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/let-your-sp…

Pretty superb if you think about it. 🩵

Budgerigars, named from the Gamilaraay word betcherrygah, are endemic to Australia 🦜 These beautiful birds form lifelong pairs and live in flocks of three to 100. 📺 Australian Geographic Extraordinary Animals #ausgeo #budgie #budgerigar #birding #birds #extraordinaryanimals

Located near the southern end of the 70km-long Gold Coast seaside strip, famed the world over for its rideable waves, is a surf break called Currumbin Alley, where beachside memories are created by the bucketful. 🔗aus-geo.com.au/go/safe-surfin… ✍️ Karen McGhee 📸 Russell Shakespeare

Inside a 130-year-old Tasmanian railway tunnel, one of Australia’s most extraordinary mushroom farms is thriving – and yes, every visiting tour group can’t help but ask about Erin Patterson. 🍄🚂 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/mushroom-wi… ✍️ Esme Mathis 📸 Matthew Newton

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As lyrebirds rake and till the forest floor in search of food, they loosen soil and accelerate decomposition to create the perfect conditions for worms, spiders and insects. 🕷️🐛🌿 📺 Australian Geographic Extraordinary Animals #ausgeo #extraordinaryanimals #birding

The plan? These frogs will fight deadly chytrid fungus by using new ‘saunas’ and ‘spas’ that kill off the pathogen – and ultimately help restore wetlands. 🐸✨ 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/canberra-fr… ✍️ Anthea Batsakis

It’s a Kookaburra competition 🥊 When Kookaburra chicks hatch, the third chick is often the most vulnerable. Stronger chicks will outcompete and sometimes even kill their younger sibling. 📺 Australian Geographic Extraordinary Animals, now streaming on SBS On Demand #AusGeo

The first carp arrived in Hobart on 22 February 1858 aboard the Heather Bell and were released into Cascades Reservoir. And so began the story of carp in Australia. 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/carp ✍️ Paul Humphries, Katie Doyle & @theconversation.aunz 🎓 @charlessturtuni

Birds FTW 🏆

🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/martian-riv… Mars once had rivers that flowed into an ocean. New research has studied ancient riverbeds on the Red Planet and found telltale signs that rivers in Mars's northern hemisphere drained into a vast, body of water billions of years ago. 📸 NASA.

🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/fitzgerald-… “What’s been lost here deserves national attention,” says conservation expert Keith Bradby.  ✍️ Victoria Laurie

The whale shark is the largest fish in the ocean 🦈 This gentle giant doesn’t bite – it feeds on its prey using a technique called filter feeding. 📺 Australian Geographic Extraordinary Animals. Streaming for free on SBS On Demand. #ausgeo #whaleshark #extraordinaryanimals

🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/magic-gbr What if a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef 🪸 could actually help save it?  ✍️ Karen McGhee 📸 Ocean Culture Life

Our new bird shirt is now available for a limited time. 🦜🦜🦜 🔗 aus-geo.com.au/go/birds-tshirt