Australian-Echidna

The echidna is a special kind of mammal that lays eggs. Echidnas lives in Australia.

Echidnas have spikes.
Echidnas live in forests.
An echidna has a long sticky tongue to catch termites and ants.
Echidnas dig into the ground if they are chased.

The echidna belongs to a special group of mammals called monotremes. There are only three monotremes, two of them are echidnas. The short-beaked echidna is found in Australia and the long beaked echidna is found in New Guinea. The other monotreme is the platypus.

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Australian-Remarkable Rocks

The impressive Remarkable Rocks form what appear to be a cluster of precariously balanced boulders. This stunning geological feature is located in Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island.

See Admirals Arch, another of nature's wild sculptures, where New Zealand fur seals can be seen frolicking in the waters or resting on the rocks. See the Cape du Couedic Lighthouse and Lightkeepers cottages and Weirs Cove, the original landing site for the lighthouse settlement.

The park provides you with the opportunity to see plants and wildlife, including echidnas, Cape Barren geese, koalas, and an abundance of bird life and plants. Some animals such as kangaroos, wallabies and possums are best observed at dusk or early morning.

Follow one of the walking trails, varying in length and degree of difficulty, including the Platypus Waterholes Walk and spectacular hikes to the coast.

Bookings are essential if you wish to stay in the historic cottages.


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The beautiful country, Australia

Austrlia is located in the Southern Hemisphere. The most famous aniamls of Austrlia are kangaroo,koala. It's not far from Taiwan,so many Taiwanese go there for studying abroad or travelling. You also can see many aboriginals who live there. I have ever talked with a few Australians, and I think they have some particular accents and for me,it's not easier to understand what they say compared with Americans or Canadians.

cuddly: I love cuddling babies because of loving them very much.


Australia Introduction 2000
Background: Australia became a commonwealth of the British Empire in 1901. It was able to take advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. Long-term concerns include pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef. A referendum to change Australia's status, from a commonwealth headed by the British monarch to an independent republic, was defeated in 1999.








Ayers Rock is a large magnetic mound large not unlike Silbury Hill in England. It is located on a major planetary grid point much like the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site





Kangaroo



A Kangaroo is a marsupial mammal. It is a macropod which means "big foot".
There are over 40 different types (species) of Kangaroo. The smaller ones are usually called Wallabies. The largest is the Red Kangaroo.It stands taller than a man and can weigh 85 kg's. It is the largest marsupial in the world.




Female kangaroos enter into heat within a few days after giving birth they mate and conceive, but after only one week's development the microscopic embryo enters a dormant state that lasts until the previous young leaves the pouch.
The development of the second embryo then resumes and proceeds to birth after a gestation period of about 30 days.



A kangaroo carries its baby in its pouch. The baby is born really tiny and crawls into its mother's pouch. The baby lives in its mother's pouch till its quite large. Even when its quite large it still drinks milk from a teat in its mother's pouch. It sometimes jumps into its mother's pouch head first when frightened.

Notes: pouch I think kangaroos have pouches is amazing. And I like to see that the little kangaroo babies are staying in their mother's pouches, and it's extremely cute and cuddly.




Western grey kangaroo looks much like the Eastern grey kangaroo, and for many years was treated as subspecies.They vary in color, being anywhere from greyish-brown to chocolate brown. The muzzle is covered in fine hair. The western group is slender and greyish-brown in color, and the southern group is stockier and brown in color.