[00:00.00]Unit 11 Working with Animals
[00:06.12]Lesson 43
[00:08.71]1.3 The cheetah is a beautiful animal.
[00:13.97]It is yellow-brown with black spots.
[00:17.78]Most cheetahs live in Africa.
[00:21.20]The cheetah is the fastest land animal.
[00:25.51]It can run at 70 miles per hour.
[00:30.47]Whales are large animals.
[00:33.72]The blue whale is the largest animal
[00:36.97]on the planet.
[00:38.69]In fact,it is the largest animal
[00:41.79]that has ever existed.
[00:44.67]A bule whale can be 110 feet long
[00:48.95]and can weigh up to 209 tons.
[00:54.61]Giraffes live in Africa,
[00:57.50]south of the Sahara Desert.
[01:00.04]They eat the leaves from trees.
[01:03.59]The giraffe is the tallest animal in the world.
[01:07.97]It is 19 feet tall.
[01:12.08]Stick insects are long and thin.
[01:16.51]They look like the sticks and leaves
[01:19.73]of the plants that they live on.
[01:22.71]They live in hot regions.
[01:25.37]The stick insect is the world's longest insect.
[01:30.12]It can measure 15 inches.
[01:34.33]There are two types of elephants,
[01:37.90]the Indian elephant and the African elephant.
[01:42.15]The African elephant is the heaviest
[01:45.84]land animal on Earth.
[01:48.53]An adult male weighs up to 8 tons.
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