Unit 11 Working with Animals
Lesson 43
1.3 The cheetah is a beautiful animal.
It is yellow-brown with black spots.
Most cheetahs live in Africa.
The cheetah is the fastest land animal.
It can run at 70 miles per hour.
Whales are large animals.
The blue whale is the largest animal
on the planet.
In fact,it is the largest animal
that has ever existed.
A bule whale can be 110 feet long
and can weigh up to 209 tons.
Giraffes live in Africa,
south of the Sahara Desert.
They eat the leaves from trees.
The giraffe is the tallest animal in the world.
It is 19 feet tall.
Stick insects are long and thin.
They look like the sticks and leaves
of the plants that they live on.
They live in hot regions.
The stick insect is the world's longest insect.
It can measure 15 inches.
There are two types of elephants,
the Indian elephant and the African elephant.
The African elephant is the heaviest
land animal on Earth.
An adult male weighs up to 8 tons.