--- title: The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the Australian walkabout there is no fence between you and the animals: you walk along a path while ka --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, e… # The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes Lesson 103 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/0/) — In the Australian walkabout there is no fence between you and the animals: you walk along a path while kangaroos doze in the shade a few steps away, and the keepers only ask you to stay on the path and let the animals be. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/1/) — A kangaroo is a living pogo stick: springy tendons in its back legs store energy at every landing, so it bounces along fast for very little effort, and a joey peeps out of its mother's pouch to watch. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/3/) — Skippy, Roo from Winnie the Pooh and cartoon boxers in gloves make kangaroos look like cuddly toys, but a real male's kick is rough, and the emu, the cassowary and the dingo are wild animals to watch from a safe distance. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/4/) — In a walkabout visitors walk among kangaroos and wallabies on paths with no fence, and the kangaroos rest in the heat of the day and graze at dawn and dusk. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/5/) — Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/7/) — A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into the pouch and grows there for months on milk, and a mother can have a tiny baby, a joey in the pouch and an older one at foot all at once. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/8/) — Male kangaroos «box» by pushing with their arms and kicking with their back legs while leaning on their tails, to win rank, and the kicks can be dangerous. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/9/) — The emu is Australia's biggest bird; it cannot fly, runs at about 50 kilometres per hour, booms from a throat sac, and the father sits on the eggs for about eight weeks, hardly eating or drinking. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/11/) — Wallabies are smaller relatives of kangaroos; rock wallabies climb cliffs, and some wallabies brought to Britain and New Zealand now live wild there. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/12/) — The quokka is a small wallaby from islands near Perth whose face shape looks like a smile; visitors may not touch or feed quokkas, because fed quokkas can get ill and lose their fear of people, and can be fined for it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/13/) — The cassowary of northern Australia and New Guinea is a big flightless bird with a dagger-like claw on its inner toe; its kick can badly hurt people, and by eating fruit it spreads the seeds of many rainforest trees. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/14/) — Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people thousands of years ago; they howl rather than bark, and a fence more than 5000 kilometres long keeps them away from sheep farms. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/15/) — In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast that many animals could not escape; the fires were reported to have killed or harmed huge numbers of animals, and zoo hospitals such as Taronga and Australia Zoo treated burnt koalas and kangaroos. - ← previous: [The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/) - next →: [Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)