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In Australia there are many plants and many animals, for example: snakes, birds, fish and many many more. The most famous animals which live in Australia are the koala, the kangaroo and the emu. There also exist many species of turtles, crocodiles and other interesting creatures. One of the most dangerous animals is the shark, which is known because of some films. All over the world the people know that the sharks bite because it is published by some magazines. Therefore it isn\'t allowed to swim at the beaches sometimes.
Large areas of this land are uncivilized and empty. That means that nobody lives in some parts of this land.
The kangaroo is a very exciting animal, because there are 60 kinds of kangaroos. The smallest kangaroos are the rat-kangaroos and rabbit-kangaroos. They are only 25 cm long and weight 650g. The largest kangaroo is the red-giant-kangaroo. It is 1.65 metres log and it's tail is again 1.05 metres log. When running it reaches a speed of nearly 90 km/h and it can jump a distance up to 3 metres.
At birth the baby kangaroo is only a few centimetres big, naked, blind and deaf. It can find its mother bag with the help of its mothers smell. Depending on the kind of kangaroos, the babies are in the bag from 3 till 9 months. Kangaroos can become 5-10 years old, the red-giant-kangaroos can even reach the age of 20 years.
Koala bears live in the outback of Australia and they are 60-80cm tall. They weigh 8-11kg and they die at the age of 15-20 years. Koalas have big ears and a black nose, which is a very sore spot. They have no tail and every bear is protected by the government's law. Koalas love to sleep, usually it sleeps 16-20 hours a day. The koala's food is only eucalyptus and one bear eats ca. 1kg a day. Sometimes two male koalas fight, because they want to make sure which one is the boss of this area. But the female koalas live peaceful with each other.
The most koalas were born after 35 days, were ca. 2cm tall and have ca. 0,5kg weight. After a koala was born, it climbs into the mother's bag. There it is for 4 months and drinks the mother's milk. After some time the little koala crawls out of the bag and climbs onto the mother's back. There it is for 2 months, except it returns to the bag sometimes. Later it is on the mother's back for a year. Being on the mother's back it gets a eucalyptus pulp from his mother that wants her baby to get used to eucalyptus which they eat when they are full-grown. With the age of 4 they are full-grown.
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