Spiky critters that lay eggs. Warm-blooded creatures with duck-like bills. Kangaroos that live in trees. There’s no doubt that Australia has some strange animals.

When you scratch the surface, Australia’s wildlife is even stranger than it appears, with odd behaviours including drumming cockatoos. 

There’s still much we don’t know about why our creatures are so unique. What we do know is that we’re losing species to extinction, at one of the highest rates in the world.

Today on Please Explain Journalist Mike Foley joins Rachel Clun to explain exactly how strange they are.