The Cave Life Page
This page is dedicated to the many animals that inhabit caves. Here are a few photographs of some of them.
If you would like to add more information regarding a particular cave animal - please send me the information and I will add it!
All Photographs are by and © 1995 to Rauleigh Webb except where indicated.
If you have some images that you would like to add to this collection please feel free to send them to me and I will happily add them. Please mail them to rauleigh@iinet.net.au
Click on the picture for a 47Kb JPG photo of a Cave Spider and babies - Identified as Baiami teganaroides by WAM staff.
Click on either picture to the left for a JPG photo of the jaw bone of Sthenurus brownei - Extinct Kangaroo. These specimens were collected in Moondyne Cave and are are being considered for display in the Cave Interpretive Centre (CaveWorks) currently being build by the Augusta Margaret River Tourist Bureau.
Click on either picture to the left for a JPG photo of the jaw bone of Macropus titan ? - Large Extinct Kangaroo. It should be noted that some uncertainty relates to the identification of these specimens and hence the ? after the name. These specimens were collected in Moondyne Cave and are are being considered for display in the Cave Interpretive Centre (CaveWorks) currently being build by the Augusta Margaret River Tourist Bureau.
Photographs of Bone Material Collected from other Caves
Click on the picture for a JPG photo of the skull of a Western long-necked turtle (Chelodina oblonga). Collected from Doogarch Cave at Carrabooda in Western Australia. The photograph was taken of the skull prior to its removal from the cave.
Click on either picture to the left for a JPG photo of the skull of a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) collected from a Nullarbor plain cave. The top photograph was taken looking at the top of the skull while the bottom photograph was taken from underneath the skull.
Click on either picture to the left for a JPG photo of the skull of a Sarcopholus (Tasmanian Devil) collected from a Nullarbor plain cave. The top photograph was taken looking at the top of the skull while the bottom photograph was taken from underneath the skull.
Click on the picture for a JPG photo of the lower jaw of a Sarcopholus (Tasmanian Devil) collected from a Nullarbor plain cave.
Click on the picture for a JPG photo of possum bones in the roof of WI 62 in the South-West of WA. Photograph by Brian Combley.
Click on the picture for a JPG photo of a complete Kangaroo skeleton on a sandy floor in Au 9 in the South-West of WA. Photograph by Brian Combley.