The platypus is a unique animal that lives in Australia. Although it lays eggs like a bird, it's a mammal. A platypus mother feeds her babies with milk from her body. The platypus spends much of its time in the water. It paddles with its front feet and steers with its back feet. The platypus scoops through the sand with its bill in search of worms and small water animals that it eats. The male platypus has sharp spurs and venom sacs on its back feet. It can scratch its enemies and poison them with its venom.
Orangutans in trouble
Orangutans in trouble Orangutans, which live only in Borneo and Sumatra
in Indonesia, are in critical danger of extinction. The last 10
years have seen logging and forest fires which have destroyed much
of their habitat. Their numbers have fallen by one-third over the
last decade, to 20,000, and their population levels continue to
drop by 1,000 individuals a year, making this great ape the most
endangered of all the great ape species. 15 MAY 2000
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