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Australian Fauna.. A place to appreciate and share information about Australian fauna. Founded 2017 · 148.3K members

148.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.7K upvotes, which works out to 85 per 1,000 members.

85peak upvotes per 1,000 members
148.9Kmembers
12.7Kbest post
701most comments
499posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 28% 27%
Image 37% Video 28% Gallery 27% Link 7% Text 1% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Friendly encounter

↑ 12.7K 💬 186 gallery 2023

How do I stop this guy getting stuck repeatedly 😩

↑ 6.5K 💬 518 image 2025

Family of kookaburras trying to keep warm during the polar blast

↑ 5.4K 💬 75 gallery 2026

Steve would be proud of you all for calling out that US Influencer for handling our Wildlife. Happy Friday Everyone!

↑ 5.4K 💬 124 image 2025

What not to do wile visiting Australia

↑ 5.2K 💬 543 video 2025

Cleaning through my camera roll and thought you all might appreciate my backyard friends

↑ 4.7K 💬 161 gallery 2023

Helping a mate

↑ 4.6K 💬 108 video 2025

Cockatoo gang crime, definitely a repeat offender

↑ 4.4K 💬 248 video 2025

I did not want to know they camouflaged by adding mud

↑ 4.3K 💬 186 image 2023

Came home one day, found this on my house

↑ 4.3K 💬 441 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/australianwildlife, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/australianwildlife?
r/australianwildlife ("Australian Fauna.") describes itself this way: A place to appreciate and share information about Australian fauna. It was founded in 2017 and has 148.3K members.
How many members does r/australianwildlife have?
r/australianwildlife has about 148.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 499 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.7K upvotes, which is 85 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/australianwildlife?
"Friendly encounter" reached 12.7K upvotes and 186 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/australianwildlife.
What subreddits are similar to r/australianwildlife?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/australianwildlife?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 28% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/australianwildlife?
Across 499 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (2.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 06:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/australianwildlife?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/australianwildlife has 3.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 10 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/australianwildlife, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.