Facts

This week we were given a report task on animals in the zoo,and we had to describe three animals kangaroos,pandas and lions.We did have to do some research to write our report and while I was in the process of writing my report and finding out more about these three animals I came across some pretty cool facts that I thought I might share with you.

*Lions are extinct from 26 countries they used to roam.
*Lions can snooze for 20 hours a day.
*The darker a male lion's mane is the older he is
*Unlike other cats lions are great swimmers
*The number of lions in a pride depend on how much resources there are

*Pandas have been a symbol of piece in China,hundreds of years ago when there was war the tribes sometimes raised a flag with a panda on it to say they should stop the battle or call a truce
*According to an old Chinese legend.The panda was once an all white bear,but when a small girl tried to save a panda cub from be attacked by a leopard she got killed instead.Then when the pandas went to her funeral they wore arm bands of black ashes,and as they wiped their eyes and hugged each other they smudged the black ash
*Mother pandas in captivity tend to give birth to twins more often then mothers in the wild
*A female panda takes five years to become an adult while males take seven
*Pandas have lived on Earth for two to three million years

*Believe it or not kangaroos can swim
*A mother kangaroo communicates with it's joey by using a series of clicks
*Male kangaroos flew there biceps to impress female kangaroos
*If kangaroos realize they are in danger they will go into a body of water to protect themselves
*Kangaroos hop because they cannot move their leg independently.