Big and Been's Animals: Land Travel

 Big and Been live and travel on a boat. 

This has taken them to far-away places where they have seen many different animals.

   Sometimes Big and Been travel on land and see different countries and their animals. 

Here are some of the animals they have seen… 

They have seen land tortoises; these look almost like sea turtles, but do not live in water.

How many tortoises are in this picture?

Look: Kay and Barry have found some big tortoises in the Seychelles.

Many countries have apes and monkeys living there.
They all look different. Here are some of them.

These are orangutans in Borneo.

Here, Junior is trying to pinch big Ritchie’s banana!

Irene (Big) is holding a mommy lemur and her baby on her arm in Madagascar.

Malaysia has proboscis monkeys, with long noses.

This baby monkey in Thailand is a different colour from its mother.

What colours are the mommy and baby monkeys?

These are water buffaloes in Malaysia. 

They look like huge cattle with big horns, don’t they?

This water buffalo in Vietnam likes to keep warm in his shed at night.

 

 This is a buffalo in South Africa; he does not like water as much as the water buffaloes do.

Did you notice that all buffaloes have big strong horns?

This is a yak in China; he lives in a cold place, which is why he has long hair.

The yak carries his owner’s things on his back and an umbrella to keep them dry in the rain.

This donkey lives in Chagos.

Watch this video of the donkey calling, and listen to the sound he makes.

This wild pig mother in Vietnam has babies.

Count the babies!

These two dogs in Vietnam live on a big boat on the water

A long time ago there were lots of wild tigers in Thailand but now they are looked after in parks.

Can you see three tigers in this picture?

This family of elephants lives in Thailand. 

How many elephants can you see?

Here is a baby elephant
Do you know that Asian elephants have smaller ears than African elephants?

Here is an African elephant in South Africa.

In Vietnam, Big and Been saw a flock of geese... 

 and they also saw a chicken family with a dad rooster and baby chicks.

These chickens in Borneo (in the photo below) are being taken to new homes.
This is how people carry them on their bicycles.

The chickens are quite happy, but they like it best when they are let free at their new scratch-patch!

These two goats live on Rodrigues Island.

  Would you like to see and hear this little goat? Watch the video below.

 

This sheep in Rodrigues is feeding her lamb

Look at Rolf (Been). He is in Madagascar… what is he holding?

Been is holding a land snake

 Here are some lizards.
This type of lizard is called a gecko. It is holding tight to a wall in Madagascar.

What colour is this gecko?

This is a flying lizard high on a tree in Borneo.
Do you see its special throat pouch? The lizard makes a loud noise with it.

The lizards above are small, but some lizards are very big, like this one...

This is a big water monitor lizard in Malaysia.

Here is a tiny little frog we saw in Madagascar.

It was only the size of your little finger, but still could jump very far. What colour is its back?

Here are some BIG animals: they are rhinoceros in South Africa.
The smaller one is the baby, and the Dad Rhino would not let us go past in our car.

Look at these very tall animals: do you know what they are called?

Of course they are called giraffe!

There are many different types of land animals. 

What animals do you know that Big and Been have not seen on their travels?