ANIMALS

= A VISIT TO THE ZOO. = === Let's learn lots of things about animals. For this aim, I propose you some activities about ordinary as well as unusual animals. Are you ready ? ===

1. What would you ask the tour guide about the following animals? I'll help you with some prompts.

 * = [[image:zebra.jpeg width="188" height="128"]] =

Can / eat meat? ||

How many / in a cage? ||

Poisonous? ||

Hibernate? || = =

Can/ swim? ||
 * [[image:Gorilla.jpg width="160" height="156" align="center"]]

live/Asia? ||

origin / name? ||

food? ||

can/jump? ||

can / fly? || 

2. Read the information about these animals and write about them.

 * * CHLAMIDOSAURUS or FRILLED LIZARD

**Description**: climbing lizard native to New Guinea and North Australia Habitat: trees in humid forests **Food**: ants, spiders, small lizards **Special characteristics:** opens brightly-coloured frill to frighten enemies. **Conclusion**: rare reptile named by Gray in 1825 ||


 * **** CAIMAN



**Description**: medium-sized crocodilianrn **Habitat**: low and wet lands and habitats near rivers in Central America and northern South America **Food**: fish, piranhas, amphibians, reptiles and water-birds **Special characteristics**: lay 22 eggs in late summer **Conclusion**: most widely distributed of New World crocodilians ||


 * **** ANACONDA



**Description**: biggest snake in the world **Habitat**: swampy areas of tropical South America **Food**: pigs, deer, caiman, birds, fish... **Special characteristics**: give birth to live young; 20 to 40 baby snakes at one time **Conclusion**: rest after eating a large animal. Care for themselves. Longest animals in the world ||


 * **** === KEEL-BILLED TOUCAN (Tucán pico de quilla) ===



**Description**: South American bird with a huge beak **Habitat**: in small flocks in lowland rainforests. **Food**: fruit, but also eat bird eggs, insects, and tree frogs **Special characteristics:** The bill is brightly coloured. A poor flyer; moves by hopping around trees. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. **Conclusion**: swallow fruit whole; regurgitate the seeds; disperse living seeds in the forest. ||