A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative,

called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New
Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very
strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos
have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences
more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per
hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow
to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch
on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at
once into this pouch where it spends its fi rst fi ve months of life.

Lightning is a sudden, violent flash of electricity between a cloud and the ground, or
from cloud to cloud. A lightning flash, or bolt, can be several miles long. It is so hot,
with an average temperature of 34,000° Centigrade, that the air around it suddenly
expands with a loud blast. This is the thunder we hear.

Lightning occurs in hot, wet storms. Moist air is driven up to a great height. It forms a
type of cloud called cumulonimbus.When the cloud rises high enough, the moisture
freezes and ice crystals and snowflakes are formed. These begin to fall, turning to rain
on the way down. This rain meets more moist air rising, and it is the friction between
them which produces static electricity. When a cloud is fully charged with this
electricity, it discharges it as a lightning flash.

The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require
at least six years
to fully attain. The female resembles the male but is smaller in size, with a dark brown
face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and
arthropods.

An Indonesian endemic, the Red Bird of Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests

of Waigeo and Batanta islands of West Papua. This species shares its home with another
bird of paradise, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Hybridisation between these two species
are expected but not recorded yet.

The Red Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea rubra is a large, up to 33cm long, brown and
yellow bird of paradise with a dark brown iris, grey legs and yellow bill. The male has
an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark
green feather pompoms above each eye and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with
whitish tips at either side of the breast.
 An elephant is the largest and strongest animals. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs,
huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a
long nose, the trunk.

The trunk is elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by
its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and puts them into its
mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and
heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength make it
a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in many ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt
for tigers and even fight.

Besides using its tentacles to catch small fish, sea plants, crab and lobsters, the octopus also uses
them against its enemies. The octopus wraps its tentacles around the victim and squeezes it before
eating it.

A common windmill consists of high steel tower on top of which revolves an air motor.
The parts of the air motor are fixed onto the wind shaft and automatically held into the
wind or furled according to whether watershould be pumped or if the mill needs to be
protected from the severity of the wind.
A windmill is a machine for converting wind energy into mechanical energy. An
ordinary 8-foot windwheel develops less than 1/10 horsepower. A wind mill is used for
grinding grain, pumping water for irrigation and in the past few years for generating
electricity.

The octopus, the squid and the Cuttlefish belong to the same family that has no outside shells.
Their bodies are covered entirely with skin. Therefore the body of an octopus is soft. It looks like a
big balloon. A fully-grown octopus can be as large as 8,5 metres from the tip of one tentacles to the
tip of another. It can weigh as much as 45 kilograms.

The octopus escapes from its enemies by giving out a thick dark fluid to darken the water. It
can also change the colour of its body to match its surroundings. It hides from its enemies by doing
this.

The Octopus is a sea animal with weight powerful feet which it uses as hands. These are
called tentacles. The word “Octopus” comes from two greet words that mean “eight feet”.