This document provides information about various Australian animals. It describes mammals as animals that feed their young with milk and lists cats as mammals. Marsupials are defined as animals that carry their young in pouches, with kangaroos given as an example. Details are then given about several iconic Australian animals, including kangaroos, which can hop at speeds up to 74 kph; snakes, with over 140 kinds in Australia and brown snakes being one of the most deadly; dingoes, the wild dogs of Australia; koalas that are only active for 2 hours per day; and platypuses that can swim and lay 2-4 eggs.

1. AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS

2. MAMMALS
 A mammal is an animal that feeds its baby
with milk from the breast.
A cat is a mammal.
MARSUPALS
 A marsupal is an animal that carries its
baby in a pouch.
A kangaroo is a marsupal.

3. AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS
 More than 47 species.
 The red kangaroo can
hop at a speed of 74
kph.
 It can hop ten metres
in one hop.
 It can be two metres
tall.THE KANGAROO

4. MORE ABOUT THE KANGAROO
 The female (the mammy) keeps its baby in
a pouch.
 The kangaroo is shy.
 It lives for about six years in the wild,
in captivity it can live for 20 years.
 It eats grass, leaves and roots.
 It needs little water.

5. SNAKES
 The brown snake can
be up to 2,3 metres
long.
 It is one of Australia's
more deadly
creatures.
 It eats mice, small
birds, rats and even
other snakes.
There are more than 140 kinds
of snakes in Australia

6. THE DINGO
 The Dingo is
Australia's wild dog.
 The Dingo is a
medium sized dog,
with a bushy tail, and
red to yellow coat.
 The dingo does not
bark, but it howls.

7. THE KOALA
 The koala does not move
around much.
 It is only active for about
2 hours of the day.
 It eats eucalyptus leaves.
 The koala makes an
extremely loud and
aggressive growling
noise.

8. THE PLATYPUS
 The platypus lives aside
freshwater rivers or lakes.
 It can swim under water.
 The female lays between
2 - 4 eggs.
 When a young platypus is
born, it feeds milk from its
mother.

9. THE CROCODILE
 The Saltwater
Crocodile is the
world's largest reptile.
 Most crocodiles are
about 4 metres long,
but it can be as long
as seven metres.
The crocodile is now a protected
species in Australia.
Many years ago Australia used to
export crocodile skin, but that is
not legal now.

10. THE GREAT WHITE SHARK
 This shark is found on
all coasts of Australia.
 It can be five metres
long and weigh as
much as 1,3 tons.
 It can have as many
as 2,800 teeth in its
mouth.
•This shark attacks its prey
once, and then waits and lets
its prey bleed to death.

11. THE ECHIDNA- THE ANT EATER
 The echidna eats ants.
 It can be up to 60 cm long.
 The tongue can be 18 cm
long.
 The echidna is covered in
brown spines.
 The mother lays one egg
every year, and she keeps
her young in her pouch.