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Our top 50 animals!

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 19 Jan 2011

What animals are people looking for on our website? Here’s a quick summary.

This top 50 list is a quick look at the search and page visits. As you can see as you can see 14 of the top animals are spiders, followed by a variety of insects, reptiles and sharks. We have found that searches do vary by season, as well as when there is a shark attack!

So, here they are – the top 50 (starting from the most visited):

• White-tailed-Spider
• Huntsman-Spiders
• Redback-Spider
• Cane-Toad
• Funnel-web-Spiders-Group
• Australian-spiders (image gallery)
• Cicadas-Superfamily-Cicadoidea
• Garden-Orb-Weaving-Spiders
• Black-House-and-Grey-House-Spiders
• Leeches
• Australian-bats
• Wolf-Spiders
• Scorpions
• Mouse-Spiders
• Beetles-order-Coleoptera
• Trapdoor-Spiders
• Blotched-Blue-tongue-Lizard
• Is-it-a-Rat
• St-Andrews-Cross-Spider
• Crayfish
• Bush-Rat
• Leaf-and-Stick-Insects-Order-Phasmatodea
• daddy-long-legs-spider
• Spider-wasps
• Tawny-Frogmouth
• Sydney-Funnel-web-Spider
• Termites
• Bull-ants
• Bluebottle
• Common-Ringtail-Possum
• Which-is-a-Black-Rat (Image Gallery)
• Eastern-Brown-Snake
• Christmas-Beetle
• Yellow-faced-Whip-Snake
• Grasshoppers-crickets-katydids-and-locusts-Order-Orthoptera
• Reef-Stonefish-Synanceia-verrucosa-Bloch-Schneider-1801
• Port-Jackson-Shark-Heterodontus-portusjacksoni-Meyer-1793
• Eastern-Blue-tongue-Lizard
• Golden-Orb-Weaving-Spiders
• Beetles (Image Gallery)
• Sharks (Image Gallery)
• Sydney-Brown-Trapdoor-Spider
• Cockroaches-Order-Blattodea
• Shingleback-Lizard
• Australian-Earthworms
• Red-bellied-Black-Snake
• Dragonflies-and-damselflies-Order-Odonata
• Goblin-Shark-Mitsukurina-owstoni

My favourite animals are bats - what's yours?