Living with wildlife

By understanding magpies and knowing how to behave around them, you can stay safe from a swooping magpie.

Learn more about how to keep yourself safe around cassowaries and how to report a cassowary sighting or an injured or orphaned cassowary.

Native animals, including possums and snakes, may find their way into your home. There are people you can call to have them removed if necessary.

• About bats
• Micro bats: The insect terminators
• Flying-foxes

Learn more about brush turkeys, their habitat and the work done to protect them.

• Crocodile management
• Be Crocwise safety tips
• Crocodile sightings
• Crocodile licences and permits

• About crows
• Living with crows
• A crow's life

• Dingo overview
• About K'gari dingoes
• Be dingo-safe on K'gari
• Fraser Island Dingo Conservation and Risk Management Strategy

• Koala breeding season

Learn about kangaroos, their behaviour and safety tips when you’re around them.

Find out about possums, their habitat and behaviour.

Find out about snakes, their important role in the wild and how to keep them away from your home.

Tarantulas range in size, colour and distribution across Australia. They may be difficult to identify and some species have not yet been properly studied or described.

Queensland has an impressive list of potentially dangerous wildlife including venomous snakes, spiders, stingrays, jelly-fish, crocodiles and sharks.