Accessing values of class objects

I am building a program requiring making some classes with inheritance. I can't seem to be able to access the members of the class objects. My code looks like this:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

class Animal{
      public:
      int number;
      int legs;
      Animal(){
           number = rand()%9;
           }
      };
      
class Fish : public Animal{
      public:
      Fish () : Animal (){
           legs = 0;
           }
      
      };
      
class Bird : public Animal{
      public:
      Bird () : Animal (){
           legs = 2;
           }
      };
      
class Insect : public Animal{
      public:
      Insect () : Animal (){
           legs = 6;
           }
      };
      

            
int main() {
    
    Animal *a, *b, *x;
    
    a = new Fish;
    b = new Bird;
    x = new Insect;
    
    cout<< a.number << "\t" << a.legs << endl;
    cout<< b.number << "\t" << b.legs << endl;
    cout<< x.number << "\t" << x.legs << endl;
    
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Basically, all animals have a random number, and each animal type has a different number of legs. When running, I get an error saying that 'number' and 'legs' are not declared. Help?

I think you meant to do this:

Code:

cout<< a->number << "\t" << a->legs << endl;

Awesome! Exactly what I needed... Thanks!