--- title: Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/) [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/) / Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi… # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings Lesson 167 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/0/) — Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rainforests and tall eucalyptus forests full of animals as odd as any desert creature. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/1/) — In the cartoon Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado and eats everything; the real devil is the size of a small dog, does not spin, but does screech and squabble loudly over a dead wallaby. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/2/) — Imagine a bird in the garden that copies your mum's phone ringtone, a car alarm and a camera click: that is a lyrebird, and other forest birds decorate their homes with blue bottle caps to impress a mate. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/3/) — There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty metres in the dark, and the wombat, which leaves cube-shaped droppings on rocks like little dice. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/4/) — Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/5/) — A contagious (catching) face cancer has killed many devils, and scientists keep healthy groups of devils safe to save the species. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/6/) — The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a helmet on its head and dagger-like claws; it can kick very hard, so people are told to keep away and never feed it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/7/) — Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/8/) — Male satin bowerbirds build a stick bower and decorate it with blue things such as flowers, feathers and bottle caps, and some bowerbirds arrange objects to change how big they look from the female's viewpoint. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/9/) — Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/10/) — Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fined. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/11/) — Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/12/) — Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, which do not roll away, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark their area. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/13/) — The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupial that looked like a dog; the last known one died in a zoo in 1936, and despite sightings no proof of any living since has been found. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/) — Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/15/) — Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees in the world, and the one called the Centurion is about a hundred metres tall, as tall as a thirty-storey building. - ← previous: [Australia's venomous animals and why few people die](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/) - next →: [The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)