Thursday, December 22, 2011
Cichld fish
To protect its eggs the cichld found in african lakes keep the eggs inside the mouth. The young swim out whene they hatch thene return to the parents mouth for saftey.
wolves
Wolves are very protctive with pups in thier pack. Many pack members will take turns standing gard over the pups. If the mother must leave to get food, another adult will "babysit" the pups for her
The BIG blue whale
Blue whales are the largest and heaviest on earth. they grow up to a 100 feet thats really big ! long -longer than dinosours. they weigh 105 tons -about the same as 2,000 people!!! These whales can live to be 80 years old
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds can flap their wings up to 80 times every second! The ruby-throated hummingbird can fly 500 miles non-stop in crossing the Gulf of Mexico!
Monday, February 28, 2011
At Kruger Park
Some more facts about me. On febraruy fifth my family and I went to kruger park and saw two elephants one giraffe, one lion and three lionesses and tons of gazelles! And we also saw one buffulo and one hippopatamis.
The story of the lion and a buffulo.When we were in kruger park we came to a stop where there were lots of people who stopped because they saw vultures, and lion that had just killed a buffulo. the vultures where waiting for everyone to go away but we didnt see the vultures eating. Female lions are the leand hunters of the pride. Namib lions have adapted to there desert habitat by absorbing almost all the moister they need from there prey,oryx. Desert lions can survi
ve for two to three weeks without drinking water. A community forms when a group shares the resources (food, water and shelter) of one place. The same is true for plants and animals. This community is called an ecosystem. Grass is the base plant of the savana's ecosystem. A savana is a rolling grass land skattered with shrubs and some trees. About 10,000 species of grass cover more thene 25 percent of our planet. Africas great savana covers a third of the continent, providing for the hundreds of species of heribvore that roam across it. Close behind are the carnivores looking for the next meal. In October's dry seasan, heards walk miles to find rivers. A water hole is a place where everyone can rest, drink, and eat--but in Africa, water means life...and death. Africa has three of our planet's largest freshwater lakes: Malawi, Tanganyika, and Victoria. It is also home to many rivers, including the longest river in the world, the Nile.
Mountain animals need strong hands and feet. The gelada baboon has the strongest fingers of any primate. Geladas chomp grass in troops of up to 800 largest group of primates anywhere on the planet. At nhigt they sleep together on rocky cliffs to avoid predators. Gelada's realative, the chama baboon, lives near the Okavango River. Gelada baboon walia imbex engoiy the buddy system. These rare monkey and goat speices gaze upon the highland meadows and alert one another if a predator is near. Rubbery hooves with hollow middles that act like suction cups walia jump between rocks. Today about 650 walia live within Simein Mountain national park in Ethiopia.
Mountain animals need strong hands and feet. The gelada baboon has the strongest fingers of any primate. Geladas chomp grass in troops of up to 800 largest group of primates anywhere on the planet. At nhigt they sleep together on rocky cliffs to avoid predators. Gelada's realative, the chama baboon, lives near the Okavango River. Gelada baboon walia imbex engoiy the buddy system. These rare monkey and goat speices gaze upon the highland meadows and alert one another if a predator is near. Rubbery hooves with hollow middles that act like suction cups walia jump between rocks. Today about 650 walia live within Simein Mountain national park in Ethiopia.
Friday, January 7, 2011
The BIG blue whale
Bottle Nose Dolphin
Did you now the BottleNoseDolphins group is a mammal and its order is catacea?Its height is 3-4.2 mete(10-14 feet) weight 106-270 kilograms (350-600 pounds).Type of feeder meat eater (carnivore) food fish, shrimp and squid where it lives temperate and tropical coastal waters.Number of young 1 its life span is 25-30 years.Other facts dolphins are very intelligent.They communicate by sound, clicking and wistleing.Now somemore facts about under sea animals.
Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomas pouturguese Man-of-war would likeley mistake it for a jelly fish.Not only is it not a jellyfish its not even an it, but they. The portugese man-of-war is a sihonophore, an animal made up of a colony of ogranisms working together.The man-of-war comprises four separte polyps. It gets it name from the uppermost polyp ,a gas- fillde bladder , or pneumatophore, wich sits above the water and somewhat resembles an old warship at full sail.Man-of-wars are also known as bluebottles here in africa for the purple-blue colour of their pneumatophore.The tentecales are the man-of-wars second organsim. These long thin tendrils can extend 165 feet (50 meters) in length below the surface althogh 30 feet (10 meters) is more the average. They are coverd in venom- filled nematocysts used to parilize and kill fish '
and other small cretchers.For humans, a man-of-war sting is excruciatingly paneful but raley deadly.But beware--even dead man-of-wars washed up on the shore can deliver a sting.Muscules in the tenicals draw prey up to a polyp containing gastrozooids or digestive organisims. A fourth polyp cotains the man-of-wars are found somtimes in groups of 1 ,000 or more , floating in warm waters throughout the world ocaens.They have no independent means of propulasion and etheir drift on the currents or catch the wind with ther pneumatophores.To avoid threat on the surface, they can deflate their air bags and brifley submerge.
Lets learn about turtles
Loggerhead sea turtles.loggerheads live in ocanes all over the world, except in the coldest seas.There are more loggerheads in the waters of the United States than any other species of sea turtle.An adault loggerhead is about 36 inches (90 centimeters) long.It ways an average, about 250 pounds (113 kilograms).
Mammals and animals!
PrzewalskisHourses.Przewalski's (pronounced ''PER-zhih-VAHL-skeez'') horse live in the steppes, or open grasslands, of Mongolia. They used to be wild, but now only live only in zoos and wildlife prezeres.Przewalski's horses are named Russian explorer and naturlist General Nikola Michailovitch Przewalski, who first studied them.
Jellyfish
The tenticels sting jellyfish!Sea turtles relish the taste of jellyfish. Some jellyfish are clear can look like a plastic bags in the water.Others are in viberat colours such as pink,yellow,blue and purple, and oftten are lumenisent.The Chinese have fished jellyfish for 1,700 years.They are considered a delicacy and are used in chinese medicine.
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