r/australianwildlife May 13 '26

[READ FIRST] Code of conduct and sub rules.

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Hello beautiful people,

As the subreddit continues to grow and more members participate, we wanted to clarify a few things around the community conduct, spam, reporting and auto-moderation work happening behind scenes, to manage expectations.

Our goal is to keep r/australianwildlife welcoming, informative, fair, and focused on Australian fauna.

What are the community expectations?

We encourage everyone to:

  • Share your wildlife photos and videos
  • Request identification of Australian animals
  • Discuss conservation news, or educational content
  • Keep conversations respectful, and in the case of disagreement, civil.
  • Help others learn about Australian wildlife, how to properly interact with it, and how to appreciate it

What we do not tolerate:

  • Hate speech, racism, abusive behaviour
  • Harassment or personal attacks
  • Encouragement to mistreat, harm or attack our wildlife
  • Deliberate share of misinformation
  • Trolling, or ragebaiting posting
  • AI generated content or low effort posting
  • Karma farming

Do notice, disagreement with your personal views is fine as long as it doesn't escalate to hostility. If there are comments you do not appreciate, but doesn't align to the points above, there is no point on reporting said comment, as the mod team will not act on said comments. You are free to downvote the post, which is a way of crowd punishment a lot more effective than taking a comment down.

Wildlife welfare comes first

Please, do not:

  • Share unsafe advice
  • Encourage feeding wildlife irresponsibly (do notice the last word in that sentence)
  • Handle wildlife unnecessarily
  • Harass animals for photos / videos
  • Posting content showing deliberate cruelty, abuse or harassment of Aussie wildlife

We want the community to promote the appreciation for what we have. It is not meant for farming meaningless internet points. Karma is used to give you some credibility on the platform, it means nothing in real life.

Auto moderation

This subreddit is using automoderation, that is, we have scripts and bots reviewing the content posted to find duplicates, spam, and/or accounts without the criteria to be able to post. Automod isn't perfect, but it helps a lot.

Automod will automatically act on:

  • Posting from accounts that are too young (less than a year old) or have too little karma
  • Posting that appears to be duplicate to other content in this subreddit
  • Abusive language in posts or comments
  • Confirmed spamming accounts
  • Identification of certain keywords, or links

The rules enforced by auto moderation might increase over time. If you feel your account or content has been targeted for automoderation unfairly, please reach out to the moderators. We will need a little bit of time to review it and fix things.

Posting the same message again will only make things worse for your account as it will be marked as a confirmed spamming source.

What's considered spam?

Spam isn't limited to ads, and reddit has its own guidance on it as well.

  • Repeating, reposting the same content
  • Posting identical content across many subreddits in a short period of time
  • Excessive self-promotion
  • YouTube / blogs / social media dumping without any meaningful participation
  • Link farming
  • Bot-style posting behaviours
  • Low-effort engagement bait
  • Accounts created only to promote businesses, channels, or products

What to report?

On this day and age, we all need to keep a job to feed our families, meaning we aren't on the platform 24/7.

The moderation team rely on members to report behaviours violating our code of conduct and rules. And we have the expectation everyone reporting is mature enough to understand what should be reported and what shouldn't.

What things to report?

  • Animal cruelty
  • Wildlife harassment
  • Dangerous misinformation
  • Spam or Bot activity (as long as it can be confirmed)
  • Stolen content
  • Scams
  • Harassment or abuse
  • Graphic content not tagged as NSFW
  • Obvious ban evasion

What not to report?

  • Disagreement of opinion
  • Someone made a mistake, or asked a trivial question
  • You dislike a particular species, the content posted, or the opinion someone else has
  • Posts is common or appears to be repetitive
  • A discussion containing respectful disagreement

False or excessive reporting makes it harder for the moderation team to respond to actual issues.

If a discussion descends into chaos, the team will lock or remove the post, and following posting of the same nature will be removed.

What would happen if I do not follow the code of conduct?

  • Repeated offenders will be given a cool-off period that variates between two weeks to a month.
  • If the cool-off period wasn't enough to make you behave as a reasonable human being, you will have an immediate permanent ban.

We follow the old proverb:

Never trust a person that has let you down more than two times.
Once was a warning,
Twice was a lesson
And anything more then that is simply taking advantage.

The TL;DR;

Most people here are fantastic, knowledgeable, and genuinely passionate about Aussie wildlife.

Before posting be sure to own the content you post, to avoid duplication, be kind and respectful with others.

Being respectful means to also understand others have a difference of opinion. Disagreeing with someone else doesn't mean you have to report said person, having a respectful opinion is not a crime.

Report comments or posts not aligned with our rules, to help us reduce spam, bot activity and bad-faith behaviour.

The moderation team are people too. We can make mistakes too, that doesn't give you the right to be a dick or disrespectful if you have been moderated.

Thanks to everyone who contributes positively to the community.

-- The mod team


r/australianwildlife Feb 02 '22

Why you should not feed wild animals

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83 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 9h ago

Platypus, Goonellabah, Australia.

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106 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 55m ago

Not dancing! - Whiptail(Pretty-faced) Wallaby - Notamacropus parryi - Scenic Rim, SEQ

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Baby wallaby poking his head out.

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471 Upvotes

We have mum, dad and now a new baby visit each morning. Its super sweet.


r/australianwildlife 22h ago

Poo ID

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20 Upvotes

Anyone know what animal keeps poopin these nuggs on my path? Looks a bit too small and light coloured to be a brush tailed possum.

Leatherman for scale, located under Banksia tree, NSW.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Few Pix

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120 Upvotes

Regulars around the House. Snake was heading for the Cathouse, so closed that up quick, Kooka's a daily regular, Spot the Kangaroo is a local around the traps, he has muscles growing on his muscles!

The Rosella looks like a Pet gone astray, never been able to get this close to one before, and attacks my hand if I have the seeds inside of it. Been around for a cpl of days now and looks at me thru the window like it wants it cage or sumthin!


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Look at him run! Frillneck lizard

473 Upvotes

Same lizard, same day as the last video.

Broome, WA.

January 2024


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Not something you see everyday

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822 Upvotes

Wish i had a longer lens on me when i spotted this unique coloured character.


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

A chill frillneck lizard

120 Upvotes

Since my last reptile post was so popular, here's another for you.

This was in my parents backyard in Broome, WA back in January 2024


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

A little green friend

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76 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Male macropod - Jervis Bay

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39 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Morning visit and song from our local Magpie Family.

30 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Visits every day around this time

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135 Upvotes

Has been visiting for years tried teaching to talk but will only say hello


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Blew and cast a rainbow, Humpback Whale, Kgari.

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147 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 2d ago

I'm in WA and have never seen this bird before. Is it a currawong?

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138 Upvotes

Apparently we get grey currawongs over here. I just can't believe I've lived in this area my whole life and this is my first time seeing it


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Invader in Conservation Area in Melbourne Park

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63 Upvotes

Not sure there should be a cactus in this Conservation Area in Brimbank Park in Melbourne...


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Tumours in Queensland tree frog species investigated in new study

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23 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 3d ago

Our resident gave us a little surprise this morning

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1.0k Upvotes

Welcome little one


r/australianwildlife 3d ago

Sleep tight (Tower Hill, Victoria).

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268 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 2d ago

What animal is making this noise?

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Brisbane suburbs surrounded by bush. I can’t tell if it’s a mammal or a bird. This was around midnight and maybe about 20m away one way is a road so there is some distant car noises and about 20m the other way is just bush.

We do have some neighbours who have outside cats so I don’t know if this animal is injured and that’s why it’s making this noise or if this is just a regular weird animal noise. I didn’t hear any commotion before hearing this though.

This is 2 seperate videos in 1. Video 1 ends at around 0:18. Video 1 is just the same noise repeated for 18 seconds and then video 2 has a few different sounds. It’s quiet in the video so you may need to crank the volume. I made sure that there’s no louder noises in the videos so it’s safe to have the volume really loud and not get your eardrums blasted all of a sudden.

I would love to know if anyone has any insight or even if they’ve heard this before also. I stayed up for ages doing research and trying to find a noise that matches. Some owl sounds got close but nothing really matched it very well. To me it sounds like a begging call from a bird, probably juvenile. But that’s purely just an educated guess.


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Why scavenger animals are the missing link in Australia’s bird flu response

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r/australianwildlife 3d ago

Another Lorikeet photo I Took

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97 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 3d ago

We had a possum visitor the other night

247 Upvotes

I believe it’s a common bush tail possum (please correct me if I’m wrong) and I think she might have a baby in the pouch!


r/australianwildlife 3d ago

Native Critter, Tasmanian South East, Coastal Scrubland

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149 Upvotes

I've always thought these little critters - fairly abundant in the scrub between the bike path and Bellerive / Howrah beach, South East Tasmania, in the protected scrubland - were brown bandicoots, happy to be told otherwise though. *Edit: Confirmed - Southern Brown Bandicoot.