Challenge 2: Displaying Message Using Inheritance

Problem statement

Whenever you visit a zoo, there are many types of animals in it. However, for each animal some things never change- they all have a name and an age. Also a country of origin. This time, we want you to use the concept of classes and inheritance to solve the exercise below!

Coding exercise

The code below has:

• A parent class named Animal.

  • Inside it define:
    • name
    • age
    • set_value(int a,string b):
      • sets age and name parameters and to the given values.
    • default constructor

• Then there are two derived classes

  • Zebra
  • Dolphin

• The derived classes should

  • Return a string containing a message telling the age and the name as well as information about place of origin of that animal.
    • Hint: You have to create two separate message functions for both the base classes.
    • Hint: The origin of Zebra is Africa, and the origin of Dolphin is New Zealand.

Example

• The animal_type named name is age years old. The animal_type comes from origin.

• If we have an animal of class Zebra, whose name is Z with age, 2 and the country name Africa. The output should be as follows:

The zebra named Z is 2 years old. The zebra comes from Africa