Animals

Their territory covers an area of 1,6 square kilometers. They gather only for mating purposes.

Young specimens - one year old - are also able to spawn, but in their case, the quantity of eggs laid is insignificant.

Males are larger and have longer, more massive bills.

Nowadays they live on the east coast of Australia and in Tasmania.

It is found in Scotland (where it has not been extirpated like the Welsh and English populations), I ...

Courtship begins as early as December. They breed one brood per year, the eggs being laid in the first weeks of May. A female can lay 5 to 7 white eggs, 26x19 mm in size.

Apart from the dense, waterproof coating, and bushy, prolonged tail they can wrap around their body to hold the temperature, they have tufted paws that serve as snowshoes.