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Dugong
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/dugong/The Dugong is a large, grey brown bulbous animal with a flattened fluked tail, like that of a whale, no dorsal fin, paddle like flippers and distinctive head shape.
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Arnoux's Beaked Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/arnouxs-beaked-whale/One hundred and fifty years ago a skull collected from a 9.7m whale stranded in Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand was found to represent a new species of beaked whale.
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Andrews' Beaked Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/andrews-beaked-whale/Andrews' Beaked Whale is known from strandings of only about 35 animals. They appear to avoid vessels and are rarely seen at sea.
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Southern Bottlenose Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/southern-bottlenose-whale/The Southern Bottlenose Whale was described by William Flower in 1882 from a beach-worn skull found on Lewis Isle in the Dampier Archipelago of north-western Australia. This remains the most northerly record for this species.
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Water-rat
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/water-rat/The Water-rat is one of Australia's largest rodents and is usually found near permanent bodies of water.
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Monkey faced bat from the Solomon Islands
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/mammology-collection-monkey-faced-bat-from-the-solomon-islands/Monkey-faced Bats (genus Pteralopex) are a distinctive and poorly studied group of flying-foxes known only from the Solomon Islands and Fiji.
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Large-eared Flying-fox
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/large-eared-flying-fox/In Australia, Large-eared Flying-foxes are restricted to northern islands off Torres Strait, but they are widespread around coastal New Guinea.
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Minke Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/minke-whale/The Minke Whale is a small streamlined baleen whale.
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Leopard Seal
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/leopard-seal/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.
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Killer Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/killer-whale/The Killer Whale, Orcinus orca, is the largest member of the dolphin family.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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