Emu (Emu)
Emu (Emu, Chinese Pinyin "é r mi á o") is the only species of the family emu family, famous for its ability to run. It is the second largest bird in the world, after the African ostrich, and is also known as the Australian ostrich. The body height is 150? 185 cm, body weight is 30? 45 kg, life span is about 10 years. Adult females are larger than males. Emu is small like an African ostrich and belongs to the class of flat breasts. It has no keel, a short, flat mouth, gray feathers, brown or black feathers, and a long, curly covering from the neck to the sides of the body. The wings degenerated and could not fly at all. Three toes and good legs. Emus can run at speeds of up to 50 km per hour and kick people with three-toed feet when trapped.
An emu is friendly. If it doesn't irritate it, it never pecks, and even Australians keep it as a pet. It also does not pay attention to food, mainly to grass for food, but also like to eat some grass butterflies and insects. In wildlife reserves, emus often improve their meals and eat the bread, sausage and biscuits that visitors feed them. When a car stops on the side of the road, the emu is unwary. Instead, it wanders around, scrambling to reach out to the window, showing intimacy and hoping that visitors can give something good to eat.
Emus live in open grasslands in Australia and Tasmania, evacuating jungle and semi-desert areas.
Emu is one of the two animals on the Australian national emblem.
Kangaroo (Kangaroo)
Kangaroo is a symbol of Australia, which is estimated to have between 30 million and 60 million kangaroos.
Kangaroos are found in parts of the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea, some of which are unique to Australia. All Australian kangaroos, zoos and wildlife parks, with the exception of them, live in the field. Different species of kangaroos live in a variety of natural environments in Australia, from cold rainforests and desert plains to the tropics.
Kangaroos are herbivores, eat a variety of plants, some also eat fungi. Most of them are nocturnal, but some are in the early morning or evening. All kangaroos, however large, have one thing in common: strong and powerful hind legs with long feet. Kangaroos can jump up to 4 meters in lieu of jumping, up to 13 meters in the farthest distance, and can be said to be the highest and farthest mammal. Most kangaroos live on the ground and can easily be distinguished from other animals by jumping from their strong hind legs. Kangaroos balance their tails during jumping, which act as the fifth leg as they move slowly. The tail of the kangaroo is thick and long and full of muscles. It not only supports the kangaroo's body while resting, but also helps kangaroo jump faster and farther.
All female kangaroos have antecedent pouch, but the male does not, and has four nipples in the toddler's bag. Cubs or kangaroos are raised in a pouch until they survive in the outside world.
The kangaroo is one of two animals on the Australian national emblem.
Koala (Koala)
Koala is the symbol of Australia, the docile and lovely marsupial name derived from the ancient Aboriginal words, meaning "don't drink water, because koalas get 90% of the water they need from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on." And they only drink water when they are sick and dry.
Koala is Australia's peculiar primordial arboreal, also known as koala, koala. Koala 18 hours a day in a sleep state, gentle temperament, simple and honest posture. In the early 19th century, koalas were hunted and sold on a massive scale, leaving a minimum of about 1000. Australia now estimates a total of 40, 000 to three hundred thousand koalas.
Platypus (Platypus)
Platypus, one of the most primitive mammals, appeared 25 million years ago and scientists believe it is an underevolved mammal. In the late 18th century, when George Shaw first received a specimen of the platypus, Even thought someone was playing a prank with him. The mouth and feet of the platypus are like ducks, while the body and tail are like beavers, covered in soft brown thick, short hairs, with a smaller skull and a half-globular, smooth, anechoic brain. The limbs are very short, the five toes have hook and claw, between toes have film-like webbed, resemble duck foot, when walking or digging, webbed fold in opposite direction to palms. It is full of soft fur, like a good waterproof coat, mouth very wide flat, like a mask on the head, like a duck mouth, soft, leather-like, it is full of nerves, like a radar scanner. Receive electrical waves from other animals. By this weapon the platypus sought food and direction in the water. The mouth has broad cutin gums, but no teeth, tail is large and flat, accounting for 1 to 4 of the body length, swimming in the water acting as a rudder. The adult platypus is 40 to 50 centimeters long and weighs between 700 and 1600 grams for females and 1, 000 to 2, 400 grams for males.
Platypus is a rare animal distributed only in eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Ecole (Echidna)
Ecigna is an egg-laying mammal, a close relative of platypus, distributed only in Australia and New Guinea. The mole looks like a hedgehog and has a short tail, 17 to 28 inches (43 / 71 cm) in length, 5 to 22 pounds (2.3 to 10 kg) in body weight, some turning into hard thorns, and fine hair on the interprickle and ventral surface. The tip of the kiss is short and straight, surrounded by a horny sheath. Toothless, tongue as thin as thread, mucus on, can extend the outlet to catch food. Short legs, front and rear limbs each with 5 claws, long and sharp, suitable for digging. The hair of the ecole was brown-black or gray, with a sharp yellow back with black edges. Above his naked nose was a pair of small eyes very close to each other. Ecole rats feed on ants, termites, and worms, which use their noses to dig out the food and send it to their mouths through their long, sticky tongues. Like mole rats, much nocturnal activity, burrowing. Eggs are usually laid only one egg at a time. During the reproductive period, the vesicular fold of the female's ventral skin forms a bursa, or temporary pouch. The eggs hatch in the bag for about 7 days. The milk zone is located in the pouch. There is a phenomenon of hibernation. During reproduction, the female has a belly bag to hold an egg with a leather-like hard shell. 10 days later, the egg hatches, and the small needle mole begins to suck milk under the burrs of the bag. After about eight weeks, when the little needle-fed mice begin to grow back bones, they can leave the abdominal bag.
Ecole rats are divided into two groups. The short-nosed Neonodna (Short-nosed echidna) lives in Australia and (New Guinea), in New Guinea, the long-nosed Neonodna (Long-nosed Echidna) lives only in New Guinea. Ecmoles are on the verge of extinction because many of their habitats are turned into farmland and excessive hunting for their meat.
South Australia's kangaroo island, (Kangaroo Island), is one of the best places to watch ecigna in the wild.
Bird (Lyrebirds)
The birds live in eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia. There are three species of birds, namely, the Great Orchard, the gorgeous one and the Prince Albert. The plumage of the male organ was very beautiful, and sixteen tail feathers spread forward, resembling a seven-string harp. Both male and female are very good at mimicking the sounds of nature and birds, but the males are stronger. Male piano birds to show off their occupation and attract the opposite sex, often take materials from the woodland waste piles into small hills, as a stage for their performance. Then it opened its own screen at the end of the stage, sounded loudly, and sang and danced. A male bird occupies a few hundred meters of territory, such a stage it can build more than 10, and take turns to perform. The birds are not only beautiful and spectacular, but also able to sing and dance. It can imitate not only the sounds of birds, but also the sounds of people. Such as car trumpet, train jet sound, axe logging sound, road macademizing machine sound and the yell of the pilot, and so on. It is one of the most popular rare birds in Australia.
Like Emu, the bird is Australia's national bird. Many goverment publications feature covers, packages for export items and stamped prints of male ones.
Koala (Wombat)
Marsupials are endemic to Australia. They have short feet and muscular muscles, are about 1 metre long and have very short tails. They live in forests, mountains and heathlands in southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
Koalas dig their nests with rodent-like teeth and strong claws. Although they are mainly active at dawn, daytime and dusk, they still feed at night or on cold days. They are not easily seen animals, but everywhere they go, they can see the evidence they leave behind.
Koalas are herbivores and feed mainly on grass, Cyperaceae, vanilla, bark and tree roots. Their incisors are somewhat rodent-like and can be used to bite rough trees or dig holes. Like other herbivorous animals, they have large longitudinal cracks between their incisors and buccal teeth. After 26-28 days of gestation, female koalas give birth to a cub in the spring. They have well-developed pouches, which can protect custard bears for 6 months and 7 months. Koalas weaned 15 months after birth and reached sexual maturity at 18 months.
Koala metabolism is very slow, almost 14 days to complete digestion, which helps to live in a dry environment. They generally move very slowly, but in the event of a hazard, they can escape at a speed of up to 40 km / h and maintain for up to 90 seconds. Bears protect their nesting-centered borders and are aggressive against intruders. Tasmanian koalas have a boundary of 23 hectares and no more than 4 hectares.
The koala is gentle, not afraid of people, and is famous for its square defecation.
Kingfisher (Laughing Kookaburra)
Kingfisher is a family of kingfisher, distributed in eastern Australia, Tasmania Island and other places, is one of Australia's iconic birds.
The smiling kingfisher, 42-46 centimeters long, 8-10 centimeters long and weighing 500 grams, is the largest species in the kingfisher family and is named for its singing like a wild laugh. The smiling kingfisher beak is large and powerful, upper body grayish brown, abdomen gray-and-white intersect. The male's wings are blue for recognition. The tail is long, brown and black.
The kingfisher's staple food is small animals: snakes, lizards and insects, known for their ability to catch snakes. They are so capable of catching snakes that they have been found to catch snakes so big that they can't eat them and protect their territory all year round. Because the roar of the kingfisher can be heard in the early hours of the morning or at sunset, it is called the clock of the inhabitants of the forest.
