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- What do I look like
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- What do I do in
everyday life
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What language do I speak
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Felines - Big Cats :
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Les félins - Les fauves
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A lion : un lion
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lioness : une lionne
- A lion
cub : un lionceau
- The lion
is said to be the King of the Jungle.
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- The lion
likes to sleep and the lioness hunts (to hunt
: chasser) to feed (to feed : nourir)
her lion cubs.
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- A tiger
: un tigre
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A cheetah : un Guépard |
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- A
cougar : un couguar
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- A
panther : une panthère
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- Big cats
or felines generally live in the savannah, but you
can also see them in the zoos.
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- The lion
roars
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- To roar
: rugir
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The tiger growls
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- To
growl
: Feuler
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- Apes
- Monkeys :
- Les
singes
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- A monkey
: un singe
- A female
monkey :une guenon
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- An ape
: un grand singe
- Monkeys and
apes live in the jungle or the savannah, but you can see them as
well in the zoos.
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- Monkeys and
apes like eating bananas and swaying (to sway : se
balancer) in the trees.
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- A gorilla
: un gorille
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- A
chimpanzee :un chimpanzé
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- A marmoset
: un ouistiti
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The monkey chatters :
le singe crie |
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Cervidae - Deer family :
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Les cervidés
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A caribou : un caribou
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- An elk
: un élan (Europe/Asie) - un wapiti (US)
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- A moose
: un élan (Europe) - un orignal (Canada)
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- A
reindeer : un renne
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- A doe :
une biche
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- A stag
: un cerf
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- A fawn
: un faon
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- An
antelope : une antilope
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- A
(fallow) deer : un daim
- Deer are
mammals (a mammal : un mammifère) that belong to the
family Cervidae.
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- There are
many species in the deer family.
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- Some deer
species are social, but others are solitary.
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- You can
often see them in the zoos or parks.
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- Some of
them live in Arctic regions. Deer are herbivores.
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- The stag
bells
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- To bell
: Bramer
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The ungulates or
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hoofed mammals :
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Les ongulés
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A zebra : un zèbre
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A rhinoceros : un
rhinocéros
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A wild
boar : un sanglier
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- A
giraffe : une girafe
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- An
hippopotamus : un hippopotame
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- An
elephant : Un éléphant (Indian / African)
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- A camel
: un chameau
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- A
dromedary : un dromadaire
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- Ungulates,
or hoofed mammals (Hooves are enlarged claws on the toes),
comprise one of the most successful and diverse groups of
large mammals alive today, having colonized nearly every
habitat on all continents except Antarctica and Australia.
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- All
ungulates are mammals.
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Ursidae :
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Les ursidés
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A bear : un ours
- A
polar bear : un ours polaire
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- There are
several species of bears :
- The polar
bear, the Grizzly, the black bear...
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- Bears are
said to love eating honey.
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- A panda
: un panda
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- The panda
generally lives in Asia.
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- He eats
the bamboos of the heavy chinese forests, and likes climbing
on the trees.
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- The bear
growls
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- To growl:Grogner
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Marsupials :
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Les marsupiaux
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A koala (bear) : un koala
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- The koala
doesn't drink but eats eucalyptus leaves
- (a leaf
- pl : leaves : feuille).
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- It is the
only mammal to eat eucalyptus, the latter being poison for
the other animals.
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- The koala
lives in the trees and goes down the tree only to change
tree.
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- A
kangaroo : un kangourou
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- The
kangaroo does not walk but hops.
- (to hop
: faire des bonds).
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- An
adult
male is called a buck, boomer or
jack.
- An
adult female is called a doe, flyer,
roo, or jill.
- A baby
is called a
joey.
- A group
of roos is called a
mob.
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- Females
have a
pouch (une poche) in which the babies live and
drink milk.
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- The koala
and the kangaroo both are marsupials which live in
Australia.
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un wallaby |
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Reptiles and amphibians : Les reptiles et les amphibiens
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An alligator : un
alligator
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- A
crocodile : un crocodile
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- A snake
: un serpent
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A lizard : un lézard
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- A frog
: une grenouille
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- A
cayman : un caiman
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- A toad
: un crapaud
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- A
tortoise / A turtle : une tortue
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- An
iguana : un iguane
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- A
chameleon : un caméléon
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- Amphibians
are
vertebrates that spend part of their lives under water
(breathing with
gills (branchies)) and the remainder on land (breathing with
lungs
(poumons)).
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- Amphibians
are cold-blooded
(à sang froid).
- Their body
temperature depends on the temperature of their environment.
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- Reptiles
(meaning "to creep"(ramper)) are a group of
animals that have scales
(écailles) (or modified scales), breathe air, and
usually lay eggs.
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An ostrich : une
autruche
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- The ostrich is the
largest and heaviest bird.
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- It is also the
fastest-running bird. Ostriches cannot fly.
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- A wolf
- Plural :
wolves : un loup
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A wolf cub : un louveteau
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- A
she-wolf : une louve
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- Wolves are
carnivorous
(meat-eating) mammals.
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- These
fast-moving animals have keen
senses, with an exceptionally good sense of smell.
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- They have
powerful jaws and sharp teeth.
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- The wolf
howls
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- To howl
: hurler
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