If you want to see some unusual animals, birds and plants, Australia is a good place to go.0:02
The kangaroo is an Australian animal that everybody knows.0:09
The biggest of the 50 kinds is the red kangaroo.0:14
They can jump more than four meters and travel at 70 kilometres an hour.0:18
Kangaroos eat grass and leaves and live in small groups.0:23
Everybody loves the sleepy grey koalas.0:28
Like kangaroos, they have a pouch on their fronts for their babies.0:31
After six months in the pouch, koala babies ride on their mother's back.0:36
Koalas eat one kilo of leaves each day, but drink nearly nothing.0:41
The word koala means no water.0:47
The koala looks like a little bear, but it is in fact a different animal.0:50
Not everybody knows that two Australian animals, the echidna and the duckbill, are really very unusual.0:56
Their babies come from eggs, but drink milk from their mothers.1:05
No other animals in the world do this.1:09
The echidna eats ants, which it catches with its long, fast tongue.1:12
The duckbill swims well, but it can only stay underwater for some minutes.1:17
There are more than 800 kinds of birds in Australia.1:23
The continent is the home for budgies and some kinds of parrots.1:28
The emu, which is 2 meters tall, is the second largest bird in the world.1:33
It cannot fly, but it can run at 50 kilometres per hour.1:38
Then there is the kookaburra bird.1:44
Its cry sounds like somebody's laughter.1:46
Australians like the bird and they even made up a song about it.1:49
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree Merry, merry king of the bush is he Laugh, kookaburra laugh, kookaburra Happy your life must be.1:55
Eucalyptus trees or gum trees grow in many places in Australia.2:07
These strong trees grow very fast and do not die when there are forest fires.2:11
Australia is full of surprises and a lot of people dream of visiting this continent to see it with their own eyes.2:17
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