1 The platypus, which lives in Australia, is a very strange animal.
2 Charles J. Moore, who was coming back home after a sailing race, found the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch".
3 Kamchatka, where there are about 160 volcanoes, is in the north east of Russia.
4 Two tigers, whose owner kept them as pets in his garden, were saved in Arizona last year.
5 The police are still looking for the owner of the tigers whose name is still unknown.
6 The 550 elephants of Mali which have short tusks and long legs are very special.
7 Orca whales and dolphines are sometimes kept in special pools where they are very unhappy.
8 Meteorologists, who study the weather, are worried about climate change.