The kiwi
The kiwi lives only in
New Zealand. It is a very strange bird because it cannot fly. The kiwi is the
same size as a chicken. It has no wings or tail. It does not have a feather’s
like other birds. Its feathers look like hair. Each foot has four toes. Its break
is very long.
A kiwi likes to have a lot of trees around it. It sleeps
during the day because the sunlight hurts its eyes. It can smell things very
well. It smells things better than most birds do. The kiwi’s eggs are very big
There are only a few kiwis in New Zealand now. People do
not often see them. The government says that people cannot kill kiwis. New Zealanders
wants their kiwis to live.
There’s a picture of a kiwi on New Zealand money. People from
New Zealand are sometimes called “Kiwis”.
The Camel
The
camel can go without water for a long time. Some people think it stores water
in its hump. It stores food in its hump. The camel’s body changes the food into
fat. Then the fat is stored in the hump. A camel cannot store the fat all over
its body. Fat all over an animal’s body keeps the animal warm. Camels live in
the desert. They do not want to be warm during the day.
The
desert is very hot. The camel gets hotter and hotter during the day. It stores
this heat in its body because nights are cool. The Arabian camel has one hump. The
Bactrian camel of Central Asia has two humps. It also long, thick hair, because
the winters are cold in Central Asia.
There
is a lot of sand in the desert. The camel has long eyelashes. The eyelashes
keep the sand out of the camel’s eyes. Arabic has about 150 words to describe a
camel. Many people who speak Arabic need all these words because the camel is
very important to them.
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