# this exercise is used to practice accessing elements of a list
animals = ['bear', 'python3.6', 'peacock', 'kangaroo', 'whale', 'platypus']

print("this is the animal at 1: ", animals[1])
print("this is the third animal in the list: ", animals[2])
print("this is the first animal in the list: ", animals[0])
print("this is the animal at 3: ", animals[3])
print("this is the fifth animal in the list: ", animals[4])
print("this is the animal at 2: ", animals[2])
print("this is the sixth animal in the list: ", animals[5])
print("this is the animal at 4: ", animals[4])
