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Common Dolphin
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/common-dolphin/

The Common Dolphin is a slender streamlined dolphin with a moderately long beak, tall dorsal fin and large tapering flippers.

Southern Right Whale
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The Southern Right Whale was called a 'right whale' as it was the right whale to catch because of its meat and high oil content.

Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
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Brightly-coloured and distinctively-marked, fawn-grey body, white ventrally, with rich orange to bright yellow forearms, hind limbs and feet.

Australian Sea Lion
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The Australian Sea Lion is a sexually dimorphic (two body forms) species, with the adult males up to twice the weight and length of the female.

Minke Whale
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The Minke Whale is a small streamlined baleen whale.

Leopard Seal
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The Leopard Seal, Hydrurga leptonyx is a member of the 'true seal' group, whose locomotion on land is best described as wriggling - a series of muscular body ripples with some assistance from the front flippers.

Mountain Pygmy Possum
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The Mountain Pygmy Possum is the only marsupial in the world known to store food and hibernate for extended periods. It is also the only Australian mammal adapted to live exclusively in the alpine zone.

Short-finned Pilot Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/short-finned-pilot-whale/

The most distinctive feature of the Short-finned Pilot Whale is the bulbous to squarish melon head and very short beak.

New Zealand Fur Seal
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/new-zealand-fur-seal/

Grey to brown with long white whiskers and dark tan ears; males much larger than females.

Humpback Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/humpback-whale/

The Humpback Whale is a large baleen whale that migrates annually along the east and west coasts of Australia.