The kangaroo is the best known of Australian animals. The biggest of the 50 different kinds is the red kangaroo. They have srong back legs and tails, they can jump more than 4 meters and travel at 70 kilometers an hour. Tke koalas live in eucalyptus trees, sleeping for 18 hours, and eating one kilo of leaves, each day. They drink almost nothing. Like kangaroos, they have a pouch on their front for their babies. Two very strange animals are the echidna and the plantypus. Their babies are born from eggs but drink milk from their mothers. There are more than 800 kinds of birds in Australia. The emu is a flightless bird. It is up to two meters tall and can run very fast. The birds are emu, black swan and cassowary, that are native to Austalia. The dingo was introduces by the aborigines. European settlers introduced cattle, sheep, horses, deer, foxes, rabbits, pigs and cats.
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