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Hello, guys! This is the last edition of special animal, prepare your journey, we’ll go to adorable places in this last edition!

9. From South America, we’ll cross Pacific Sea, and look! There are many islands called Galapagos. Can you see from the plane, giant Galapagos tortoises are basking? Their ages are the longest in the world, reached 150 years. Why are their ages so long? Because slower the animals’ movement, they inhale less oxygen, so the oxidation effect is less too.

These animals are very heavy. The male’s weight is 272-317 kg and the female is 136-181 kg. In one time, these animals prefer basking to make their body warmer and get energy from the sunlight in the rocky beach. In another time, they climb up to find water and grass.

Uniquely, these animals may be deaf. Charles Darwin proved it when he was going here to do experiment. When Darwin paced closely to these monsters, they didn’t react. And while Darwin paced more closer and closer, these monsters sounded ‘hiss’ and hid their head and legs to their shells.

10. Now upside down your globe and look the bottom of earth, Antarctica. There’s one peculiar animal here that already become mascots in many places, one of them is Linux Company, a software company. Yeah, penguin!

Penguin is the bird which can’t fly, but uniquely they can dive smartly. They dive to find their main food, krill and fish. In addition, they’re very patient animal. While they’re breeding, they can stand in their position for a long time, even when blizzard happens.

There’s a funny thing that happen in their community. If a female penguin, call it penguin A, lose their calf, she’ll “angry” and try to take the other calf by force, for example to penguin B. Funnily, some penguin that are in the same place, help penguin B to defend their calf.
So funny animal!

11. Okay, turn up your globe, look at North Pole area! Look, so many bulky and tusky creature herding! Guess what are? Yeah, walrus! When we see walrus, at first we’ll see their tusks. Their tusks’ length reaches 1 meter and their weight is approximately 5.4 kg.

Walrus include long-lived animal, their age reach 50 years. The male start to mating when they’re 15 years old, and the female are 4-6 years old. Usually, their copulate period is in January until April, when summer.

After copulate period, usually walrus do migration from icy area to rocky beaches that are warmer. In one time they migrate, their number can reach thousands or even ten thousands.

12. Now, we’ll end our nice journey in Europe. Look at one last animal, reindeer. The deer with beautiful antler. Actually, their population spread among several areas, such as Mongolia, North China, Siberia, Scandinavia, Eire, England, Greenland, and North America. But I choose this animal as representation of Europe continent because there’s a famous story form this continent, about Santa Claus’ snow carriage that pulled by six reindeer. A famous Christmas story. A peaceful and beautiful children story.

Okay, back to the topic. Reindeers use their antler to help them find their food, lichens. Reindeers also eat willows and birches’ leaves. In the fall season, reindeers migrate while mating. And in the winter, this animal migrates to find food. Uniquely, this animal can swim smartly in lakes during their migration.

Yeah, it’s all about special animal that can represent each area. So, our journey ends here. One question to you: am I a good guider?