1. By: Mackenzie Boisjolie

2. Platypus  The platypus is a egg laying mammal of eastern Australia.  It has a duck like bill and a wide flat tail.  It is about 61 cm long.  It weighs about 4 pounds.  It has dark brown or yellow fur.  It has webbed feet so it can swim better.

3. Frilled Lizard  Frilled lizards have a frill folded up behind their neck, and when they get startled, it spreads out and makes it look twice as big than normal. Than it makes hissing noises and spreads its teeth  There about 30 cm long.  They eat insects and some small rodents.

4. Emu  The emu is the second largest bird.  It is about 5 feet tall.  Weighs about 55 kg.  They can run 30 miles per hour.  They are good swimmers.  The female lays about 9 eggs and then the male sits on them for about 60 days

5. Cuscus  It is a marsupial.  They can get from 6 to 26 inches long.  There tails can get from 17 to 24 inches long.  They are arboreal animals.  They eat fruit, leaves, nectar, insects, and sometimes small birds.

6. potoroos  They are land animals.  There tails are adapted to take hold of something.  They have short ears.  They weren't discovered till 1980.  They find food at night.  They eat roots fungus and insect larvae.

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8. Summary  I Read the book Checkers by David Marsden this book was about this girl in a mental hospital righting about her past and how she ended up in a mental hospital. the whole thing started when reporters kept coming to her house, and her father was in the paper. her father is in a group that continues to deny being apart the fraud that they have committed. After awhile the reporters wouldn't leave their family alone so things just got worse. One day a reporter showed up and was asking the girl about the dog. then the next day there was a story in the newspaper that was full lies about her dog. the newspaper was linking the dog to the fraud. Her father then murdered her dog. she thought it was her fault because she was the one who had talked to the reporter, so she believed that she had killed her dog.