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Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
It is a cat but not a kitty, You'll never catch on in a city. Its fangs are huge and so its claws, A death machine with paws and jaws. In its own way a royal fellow, Striped with black and clothed in yellow
I'm black and white with stripes all over my body. I look like a horse but I'm not. What am I?
I hop along and have a pocket where I keep my babies. I live in Australia. What am I?
hide me from your parents if you have done bad academically this year.