Wildest Places Season 1

I'm working on writing up some Zoology lesson plans for a friend who lives in Australia. It has been great fun to re-conceptualize this classic Waldorf block using Australian animals instead of European or North American ones! It's an amazing continent!

(If you're teaching the Man and Animal block in Waldorf grade 4 as well, join the Ruzuku course and we can plan together and share favorite ideas!)

Ruzuku Course: Man & Animal

As part of my background research, I watched Season 1 of Wildest Places.

Here is a list of all of the animals mentioned in each episode:

Episode 1 - Outback Deserts

Pink Galah

Common Blue-tongued Lizard

Shingleback Lizard

Honeypot Ant

Thorny Devil

Perentie Monitor Lizard v. Emu (egg eaten)

Red Kangaroo

Greater Bilby

Spinifex Hopping Desert Mouse

Inland Taipan v. Long-haired Rat (eaten)

Pelican

Budgerigar

Episode 2 - Rainforests

Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko

Lamington Spiny Crayfish

Satin Bowerbird

Australian Brush-turkey v. Carpet Python

Potoroo

Pademelon

Bandy-bandy

Funnel-web Spider v. Cricket (eaten)

Rhinoceros Beetle

Rainbow Stag Beetle

White-lipped Tree Frog

Ulysses Butterfly

Huntsman Spider

Cassowary

Musky Rat-kangaroo

Spangled Drongo

Weaver Ant v. Trap-jaw Ant

Tasmanian Devil

Quoll

Platypus

Echidna

Magpie Goose

Brolga

Mertens' Water Monitor

Saltwater Crocodile

Freshwater Crocodile v. Little Red Flying Fox (eaten)

Episode 3 - The Bush

Koala

Rainbow Lorikeet

Laughing Kookaburra

Forest Kingfisher

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Tawny Frogmouth

Honey Possum

Sugar Glider

Thick-tailed Gecko

Golden-tailed Gecko

Tammar Wallaby

Bettong

Bush Stone-curlew

Mulga Snake

Numbat

Compass Termite

Echidna

Golden-shouldered Parrot

Red-bellied Black Snake

Mulga Snake v. Inland Taipan (eaten)

Brumby

Wombat

Australian Bulldog Ant

Hibiscus Harlequin Beetle

Pill Millipede

Peacock Jumping Spider

White Crab Spider v. Orange Lacewing Butterfly (eaten)

Magnificent Spider

Redback Spider

Portia Fringed Jumping Spider v. Green Jumping Spider

Portia Fringed Jumping Spider v. St Andrew's Cross Spider (eaten)

Episode 4 - Wild Coasts

Humpback Whale

Bottlenose Dolphin

Grey Nurse Shark

Sand Whiting

Silver Bream

Dingo

Light-blue Soldier Crab

Stromatolites
not an animal... these are ancient bacteria-created layered formations of sediment trapped over time in microbial mats!

Green Turtle

Dugong

Bottlenose Dolphin v. Mullet (eaten)

White-spotted Eagle Ray

Nervous Shark

Bull Shark

Rock Crab

Kangaroo swimming

Cowtail Stingray

Ghost Crab v. Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Humbug Damselfish

Neon Damselfish

Staghorn Coral

Wrasse

Parrotfish

Spangled Emperor

Sea Pike

Plate Coral

Blacktip Reef Shark

Trumpetfish

Whale Shark

Reef Manta Ray

Spur-throated Locust

Golden Orb-weaver

Red-footed Booby

Hermit Crab

Horned Ghost Crab

Brown Land Crab

Christmas Island Blue Crab

Coconut Crab v. Christmas Island Red Crab (eaten)

Brown Booby

Saltwater Crocodile v. Bull Shark (eaten)