Laura's+report+on+an+endangered+Australian+animal

=[|numbat information.doc]Laura's report on an endangered Australian animal ...=

=The Numbat=

Numbat is found only small area of Western Australia. It's was also found in grasslands.

The Numbat's body is about 24 cm long. And it's a brushy tail about 17 cm long. They born blind and hairless. they can simply cling to them mother's belly fur skin. They have reddish-brown with white and black eye stripes it's also in the back's well. And long bushy tail held high and pointed snout snuffling the ground in search of food. Numbat has long thin sticky tongue that it flicks into holes where termites are. Numbat eat about 10.000 to 20.000 termites a day. The Numbat does not have strong claws for tearing apart termite nests. It find termites by scent and then scrabbles soil to find. The females are pregneant for just a few days and the young are born at very early stage of development, Fourteen days after mating. female Numbats give birth to 4 young. Each of the young attaches itself to one of four teats on the outside of the mother's belly. unprotected by a pouch. And stays attached for about 5 months young are moved to a nest in a burrow until spring. After spring they ready to find their own place to live.

Numbats face the threat of feral cats dogs and foxes. [|numbat information.doc]