Welcome to Team Four's Amazing Animal Web Page. Did you know that even the tiniest organism in the Moneran Kingdom was an animal? Well, it is. We have researched all different animals from many various Kingdoms to bring the information to all of those who visit our web page.
    All of the students in Miss Hill's Science class, on Team 4,  worked very hard to gather the information, write out their findings and put it online with the help of their teacher.
    Thank you for visiting and we hope you enjoy!
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Amanda S.
The Giant Panda

The Giant Panda belongs to the classifications:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ailuropoda
Species: Melanoleuca
     The Giant Panda mainly eats bamboo but if it is really hungry it will also eat leaves, insects, and rodents. The Giant Panda has a height of about 24-32 inches, length of about 60-72 inches, and weight of about 176-352 lbs. Its gestation period is 97-163 days and usually gives birth to 1-2 offspring. The Giant Pandas life span is about 25 years, not a lot compared to us!
     The most danger that a Giant Panda is in is from leopards eating young pandas and pouching. Pandas are currently one of the most endangered animals on earth. Giant Pandas are mainly found in Central and Western China. The bamboo forests that they live in have an elevation from 8,500 to 11,500 feet.
     Pandas are great mothers and stay with their young for about 18 months. Female pandas are very territorial and will vigorously defend their territory. Pandas do not hibernate unlike other bears. They have thick, oily skin which protects them in the cold environment that they live in. When pandas see a leopard or animal that might harm them they climb up a tree so that they are camouflaged by their black and white fur. Despite their size , they are great climbers.
 Paula
The Bottlenose Dolphin

 The bottlenose dolphin is one of the most intelligent animals in the world. They communicate well with people and they are very gentle. An average dolphin can grow up to 8-9 ft. long and can weigh 400-600 lbs. They eat fish and squids and usually swallow them whole or bite them in half. They have a long smooth skinned body with an insulating layer of blubber to keep themselves warm. They can be found in all the worlds’ oceans, bays, rivers, etc, except in the coldest polar regions. They usually live up to 30-40 yr.
Dolphins are known as mammals, not fish; which means they feed their young with milk. Female bottlenose dolphins mature around 5-12 yr. and males 6 or older. The gestation period takes up about 11-13 months. After birth the female raises calf without the males help and nurses it for 2-4 yrs or longer. A female dolphin is capable of giving birth every 3 yrs.
Between 1987and 1988 the bottlenose dolphin’s population in the Atlantic coast of the United States decreased greatly. This was because of the pollution of the water. Also dolphins got trapped in fishing nets. Nearly 80% of the population had been destroyed. Now laws have been passed to help the dolphin population. The U.U. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 made it illegal to kill or capture marine mammals in U.S. except for dolphins taken under special permit for aquariums and scientific experiments. The law also passed a resolution limiting the length of drift nets (50 miles long). With hope we just might be able to save the bottlenose dolphins.
Classification of the
Bottlenose dolphin
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Tursiops
Species truncates

By
Susanne
   **~~KOALA~~**
Kingdom- Animelia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Mammalia
Order- Mursupialia
Family- Phascolorctide
Genus- Phascolarctos cinereus
Species- Phascolarctos cinereous
~*Koala's~*
The koala is the Australians favorite animal as known as the Australian teddy bear. There are dozen of names you could call a koala, examples- nonagon, native bear, bangaroo, colo, koolewong. These are some of the names the people in Australia call the koala.
They are slow Loris and the sbth, two very, different animals that also move in a lethargic way. The koala is like a small bear, 2 ft high. Up to 33lb weight with tuffed ears, small eyes with a vertical slit pupil, and a prominent beak-like snout. Tailless except for a very short rounded by gray fur upper parts brown, yellowish white on the hind quarters and the white under parts. They have a pouch for food. It has cheek pouches for storing food and the brood pouch of the female opens backward. All four feet are grasping ,on the front fet the ,first two of the five toes are opposed to the rest and , the first toe on the hindfoot is
oppsed. Also on the hindfoot the second and third toes are jointed in a common skin.
~ ** FUSSY FEADERS ~**
The Fussy feeders react a night the koala climbs to the top most of the branches, to find its main food.
The tender shoots of ecually ptus , 12 species of which are eaten. A koala is to its smell strongly of eucalyptus ,Bernhard Grzimek ha spoke of koalas a smelling like cough lozengens. Their feeding is however, more restricted than this different races of koala rely an certain species of gum tree.
After the birth of the tiny blind young climb up the mothers belly to her pouch for nursing. They accomplish this unassisted. The little baby stays in the mothers pouch and the little blind child gets their vision when he is completely 1 year old. While it’s the pouch it sleeps in there. When they are hungry they climb up and the mother feeds the young her milk from her nipple then as soon the baby is done she takes her hand and just lays the baby, on a piece of leaf. *** They feed on certain timing they don’t really eat the mother starts keep on trying to figure out a place were it would safe were the baby could start learning how to walk, and how to climb a tree.**

By: Heather
 I’m doing my research on the Atlantic white-spotted octopus. The classification is as follows:
Kingdom-Animal
Phylum-Mollusca
Class-Cephalapoda
Subclass-Coleoidea
Superorder-Octobrachia
Order-Octopodida
Suborder-Incirrina
Family-Octopodidae
Subfamily-Octopodinae
Genus-Octopus
Species-macropus
 The official common name of my animal is the Atlantic white-spotted octopus, but the common name is just the white-spotted octopus. An octopus is a cephalopod. Cephalos means head, and podos means footed. So octopuses are "head-footed". They have a large, well-developed head, a closed circulatory system, and are the most complex of all of the cephalopods. Octopuses also have their foot divided into eight "legs". Each leg has suckers on it.
 Octopuses live among the rocks in shallow water. The average octopus eats about two dozen crabs a day. An octopus also eats bivalves and fish. The octopus poisons the prey, which paralyzes them, and then kills them.
Octopuses reproduce using sexual reproduction. On the male, one arm is different/special. It has a spoon like tip, which is used, for the deposit of sperm. During mating, after the eggs are fertilized, they are laid. The female will lay about 150,000 eggs in a week.
 The octopus has a couple of "special effects". One unusual talent they have is changing color. But, only some octopuses have that ability. For protection, octopuses can secrete ink.
 

Puffins
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadrilformes
Family Alcidae
Genus Fratercula
Species arctica
  Puffins mostly live in water. Land is not where they like to live. Puffins live almost their whole life in the sea. The only time a puffin comes out of the water is when they nest. Most puffins nest in high cliffs or on rocky slopes.
 Puffins lay small eggs but some of them are very large. Some puffins, like the horned puffins, lay large eggs even bigger then a chicken egg. Atlantic puffins eggs are about 2.4 inches long and 1.7 inches wide. The tufted puffin lays eggs 2.8 inches long and 1.9 inches wide. Puffins lay only one egg a year.
 Puffins have very brightly colored bills. People sometimes call puffins sea parrots. Puffins are not parrots and do not belong to the same family as the parrots but they belong to the family Alcidae.
 There are three kinds of puffins, the Atlantic puffin, the horned puffin, and the tufted puffin. All of these are almost the same size.
 To get food, puffins swiftly skim across the water and catch the fish on top or sometimes they dive under and they catch their food that way.
 Puffins are not endangered or are they in danger of dying out. The reason biologists keep watch of them is because many people and animals are destroying puffin’s homes. Also pollution kills many puffins.  People catch too many fish and when people take all of the fish there is nothing left for the puffins to eat. Also when fishers would let down their nets, many puffins got caught in them and died. Biologists estimated that 105,833 puffins died when they went fishing.
 It is very important to help save these beautiful creatures. If they keep dying when they get caught in the fishermen’s nets. We have to be careful when we go fishing because if we catch this wonderful creature they could soon become extinct.

By Katherine

Stacy King

       Arctic Wolf
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata
Subphylum - Vertebrata
Class - Mammalia
Subclass - Eutheria
Order - Carnivora
Family - Canidae
Genus - Canis
Species - Canis Lupis
 

The Arctic wolf lives in a group called a pack. There are 7-25 wolves in one pack. The leader of the pack is called the Alpha male.
 In captivity the Arctic Wloves lives up to 17 years and in the wild it is lucky to live up to 10years. This is because it gets more food in captivity.
 The Arctic Wolf reproduces sexually. After mating the pups are usually 60-70 days later. 5-9 pups are born in a litter.
 The Arctic Wolf lives on the Tundra. It is still found in Europ, India, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Middle East. They are also found in Alaska or Canada. The Wolves live, Sleep, sometimes eat or play in dens.
 The Arctic Wolf hunts caribou, small walruses, and musk oxen. One caribon can last for three weeks. The Arctic Wolf usually eats it's pray where it catch it.
 The Wolves adapt to seasonal changes. They have thick pads on the bottom of there feet so their feet don't get cold or wet wile they run. Their feet also expand when they run so they run smoothly. The Arctic Wolf has very good hearing. It can hear a wolf howl from five miles away. They also hear pray from far away.
 Wolves howl to get other animals away from their food, or to get other animals out of their territory.
Arctic Wolves weigh up to about 100 pounds. They are about 5.5 feet from nose to the tip of their tail. They can grow up to 36 inches high at the shoulder. They are the largest member of the dog family. Arctic Wolves come in many different colors and sizes. Most Arctic Wolves are white, but can be Gray or Black. They usually have a mark on their body's somewhere. . The front paws can be 4 1/2inches long and 3inches wide. The hind feet are about a half an inch smaller. When the arctic Wolf is full-grown it has about 20top teeth and 22 bottom teeth.
 The Arctic Wolf is the ancestor called Creodeont. The Creodent lived about 100 milian years ago. Arctic Wolves use theirbody language and facial expression to communication with other wolves. They mark their territory by sent. They urenate arownd the edges of their territory.
 
 

 Lappet-Face Vulture  By John

The Lappet-Face Vulture’s characteristics are the head and neck is covered with pink or red fleshly, large ear-like structures on the sides of its head. The body is dark brown; the upper breast has short hairs that are brown and white. The tail and wing feathers are dark brown and black and the beak is greenish with a touch of yellow on the tip. The weight of an average adult is 25 lbs. And the wingspan of an average adult is about 9 feet.
The diet of the Lappet-face Vulture is to eat road kill, termites, decaying flesh, small animals and rats/mice. It rarely eats anything that is alive but not often because they are birds of prey.
The Lappet-face Vulture is normally calm when it is in small groups and when he’s alone. He gets freaked out when he has to many birds around him and he starts to attack. In the winter, both male and female build a large nest of sticks at the top of a large thorn bush or a large or old tree. The nest is lined with grass and fur from other animal       carcases. They reproduce sexually. An egg is oval shaped with dull white spots and brown blotches.The incubation is for 53 days.The baby birds first flight is the 185th day.
The enviorment or the creature is manily deserts, open plains, thorntrees grasslands and other dry places.The Lappet-Face Vulture lives in central  america, the southeast asia and all of southeren africa.
Here is the classifacations of the Lappetface Vulture:
·   Kingdom: Animalia
·   Pyhlum: Chordata
·   Class: Aves
·   Order: Falconiformes
·   Family: Accipitridae
·   Genus: Buteo
·   Species: Aegypius Tracheliotus
 

Lizz
Proboscis Monkey

The proboscis monkey belongs to the kingdom animalia, the phylum is chordata, class is mammilla, order is Primates, Suborder is Anthropoidea, and family is Cercopithecidae, which includes 18 genera and 81 species.  Subfamily is Colobinae, Genus is Nasalis, and species is larvatus.
 The proboscis monkey is from Borneo, Italy.  It can be known for the large nose on males, which is used for attracting a mate, and getting rid of excess body heat.  These monkeys were widely distributed in the Old World, from southern Europe (Gibraltar) to Africa, and through central and South East Asia, including southern China and Japan.
 Proboscis monkeys reproduce sexually.  The young have a silvery-blue fur that eventually turns any color between chestnut and cinnamon-reddish on the back, with a white tail.  The tail has a black tip.  Its belly can range from tan to gray.  The young also have a nose that points upward instead of downward.
Proboscis monkeys eat leaves, flowers, and fruit. For getting these, proboscis monkeys have sharp back teeth. But, this is a reason they’re endangered. As their habitats are being cut down, deforestation plays a large role.  As their habitats are being destroyed, food and shelter are becoming scarce. Males and females grow to ABOUT the same length, three foot body, and two foot tail.

                                 TIGER SHARK by Yuly
                            HABITS
The large, powerful tiger shark cruises the coast and offshore waters of tropical seas. It will travel up to fifty miles a day, rarely stopping except to eat.
  In summer, the tiger shark may follow warm water currents as far south as New Zealand, or north to Japan or the north United States. In winter it stays closer to the equator near the coral reefs of the Caribbean and the Pacific and Indian Oceans where it is the largest and most dominant of all the reef predators, eating anything it can find.
 The tiger shark tends to stay in deep waters on the fringe of reefs, occasionlly penetrating the channels to attack in the shollows. It glides day and night over the reef and ocean bed.

                           FOOD AND HUNTING
The tiger shark is an indiscriminate feeder; it will eat anything. In addition to its main diet of fish, squid, sea turtles, seals, and small shark. Parts of horse have been found in the stomach of tiger shark even strange thing have been discovered: bicycle parts, tin cans, overcoat, even a chicken coop complete with feather and bone, car license plates, and gasoline cans.
 A tiger shark has a large mouth and massive , powerful jaws lined with flat, triangular, notched teeth with serrated edges. As teeth are broken or lost, new teeth grow in to replace them.
 The tiger shark has good eyesight, but it relies mostly on other senses to track and catch its prey. It has an acute sense of smell, which enables it to pick up even the faintest traces of blood in the water and follow them to their source. It is also sensitive to low-frequency pressure waves produced by movements in the water. even tiny nerve and muscle twinges reach its sensitive electroreceptors, so the shark can pinpoint prey in the darkest, murkiest water.
 Once the tiger shark has located its prey, it may cicle it for a while or nudge it with its snout before making the kill. The final attack is frenzied; the shark will devour anything in its path.
                                       BREEDING
 During mating, one of the male's pelvic fins is introduced into the female's genital opening to act as a guide for the sperm. Mating can be painful for the female, since the will often use its teeth to hold her still.
 The young (between 10 and 80 in each brood) are nourished inside their mother's body for approximately nine months. When they are born, they are completely independent and equipped with a full set of teeth. They are able to swim away emerge and begin to hunt for themselves immediately.

KINGDOM          ANAMALIA
PYLUM               CHORODATA
CLASS                CONIVOREOUS
ORDER                CARCHARHINIFORMES
FAMILY              CARCHARHINDAE
GENUS                GALEOCERDO
SPECIES             CUVIER
 
 
 

    PuffinBy Lauretta

   A puffin is a 12-14 inches long bird that live in the arctice  there most add tractive birds  in the north  antrtice chucky and black  the face is  white with triangle beak wicth is yellow and red . the  nest on rocky island , nest is made up of grass , seaweed and feather. Puffins love to eat small fish called herring and mollusk .

    Puffin
   Is very helpless .It builds is hidden for prerados  such as gulls,jagger  stong –flying  birds that need to pick on the small and weaker ones

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class  Aves
Order  Charadriformes
Family  Alcidae
Genus  Fratercula
Species  Fratercula corniculata

                         Prairie Dogs
By: Michelle C.
 
 

                    Classification

     Prairie dogs are Rodents that belong to the order Rodentia or rodents. Some people say that prairie dogs look like squirrels and they do. That is why they belong to the family Sciuridade. Prairie dogs were put into the genus Cynomys because the word refers to dog. Since prairie dogs are vertebrates they belong to the phylum Chordata and the Kingdom Annemila. They also belong to the class Mammilla and the species Ludovicicnu.

                       Reproduction

     Prairie dogs usually mate in late winter or early spring. They will usually have a litter up to 2-6 pups (10 pups maximum). Once the female prairie dog has a litter it will be her only litter for the year. The mother prairie dog will stay with the pups until they are ready to go out on their own.
 

                                      Gestation Period

     The gestation period for the prairie dogs lasts about 32 days. When prairie dogs are born they are only about 2 ½ inches long, hairless, and weigh under an ounce at birth. For about 6 weeks the pup remains with the mother in the nursing chamber.

                       Evolution

     According to the fossil record, which scientists think, prairie dogs were one of the first rodents to have evolved about 60 million years ago. All this took place near the end of the reign of the giant dinosaurs and near the beginning of the flowering plants.

                          Food

     Prairie dogs are vegetarians or herbivores. They eat grass, all parts of the plant, cacti, insects, bushes, leaves, weeds and roots. They also eat some sort of pellet that contains plant fibers for energy. When there is scarce food the prairie dogs manufacture water into their bodies.

                            Teeth

     Prairie dogs have 4 chisel-shaped front teeth called incisors for cutting and gnawing. They also have canine teeth for killing prey. Their teeth are specialized for a diet of plants because they are herbivores.

                                           Importance

     More than 170 species depend on prairie dogs, and protect them. Another 170 species will be saved the rarest animal in North America is the black footed ferret. And black footed ferrets eat prairie dogs. That is why prairie dogs are called                        “Keystone Species.”
 
 

The Giant Armadillo can grow up to six to seven feet long and survives by eating fire ants and other small animals.

The Giant Armadillo has small bony plates and has claws up to one and a half feet long.  The bony scale separates so they can curl up in a ball for protection from their predators.

Armadillos live in tropical, low burrows abandoned by foxes.  Sometimes they use their massive claws to dig their own burrows and also use their claws if they get into a fight.  Some live on the north coast of South America while others live on small islands.

Other than the Giant Armadillo, there are also other types of armadillos such as the Nine-Banded Armadillo.  It has a unique way of defending itself from attack.  They curl up in a ball and roll away if they are on their backs.  The Hairy Armadillo also has monsterous claws capable of digging the deepest hole of any armadillo but this armadillo cannot roll up like the others.  Instead they bring their claws, head, and tail in and close up like a turtle.
 

By: Azad

Kingdom Anamalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Class Aves
Order Apodiformes
Family Trochilidae
Genus Archilochus
Species Colubris

As you know hummingbirds are small. But did you know they are the world’s smallest birds? The average size of a hummingbird can range from three to three and a half inches. A breed of hummingbirds found in the Andes Mountains, located in South America, can grow to be eight and a half inches long! The smallest breed found in Cuba can be as small as only two inches.
Although these birds are small they are known to have the largest appetite. Their diet includes sweet nectar found in flowers and small insects found in old rotten logs or the soil.
These birds are commonly found in the southwestern area of the United States and the Mexico area. They enjoy living in warm dry areas.
Hummingbirds are constantly on the move, in a rapid motion. They have the fastest wing beats out of all birds. Their wing beats as fast as eighty times per second.
The mother hummingbird lays two white eggs that are one half of an inch big. Each egg weighs one quarter of the mother’s weight. The babies are born in fourteen days. When first born each baby is born blind and is as small as a honeybee. The mother feeds her young also known as “ chicks” a mixture of nectar and small insects. The life span of an adult hummingbird is up to twelve years.
Hummingbirds buzz around our wonderful earth. They are not endangered, we should take notice of these lovely creatures. Now I hope you may know the basics of the fascinating hummingbird.

Manatees
By Genevieve

Kingdom:  Animalia
Phylum:  Chordata
Class:  Mammalia
Order:  Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Genus:  Trichechus
Species: inunguis

Manatees
Manatees are called sea cows. Why? They graze in pasture of water grasses mush as grass on land. Manatees are warm-blooded mammals. They have to live in warm as Florida and other warm parts in the world. The manatee changes colors through gary to brown. Manatees are very big they are about 13 feet 4 meter long and weight 3,500. Manatees are the last free living mammals. Manatees are plant eaters. The Amazonian manatees live in the Amazon River.

 Ringtails
 By:Melanie Crouch

     Classification

Kingdom-Animalia Family-Petaridae
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Mammalia
Order-Marsupialia
Genus-Pseudocheirus Peregrinus
Family-Petauridae

 The Ringtail reproduces sexually their gestation period is unknown but about 40-70 days . They have one to five young usually three they have their babies from May-June . When they are born they are blind, death and toothless . At three weeks they are taught their eyes open 4-5 weeks . At two months they will learn how to hunt with their parents .
 The Ringtails habitat is weeded slopes and rocky terrain near water . The Ringtail is 25-32 inches long one half of its tail weighs 2-3 pounds . Ringtails live 8-14 years .
 Ringtails mice and fruit they love bananas . Their predators are Owls and large carnivores . The scientific name is Lemurcatta .
 Some fun information about a Ringtail is the when a predator approaches like a skunk they are very similar to a skunk and a raccoon . When they are upset they bark like a dog or scream .

Polar Bears
           By: Taiyba

 The polar bear is one of largest animals in the Arctic. The males, also called boars, grow up to be nine feet tall and about 1,400 pounds. Most polar bears have three inches of fat under their skin to keep them warm and to provide nutrition during the winter, when food is hard to find.
 The female polar bears start reproducing when they are about five or six years old. She chooses who to mate with by picking the one that is the strongest and largest. When the baby is born, it is deaf, hairless, and about big as guinea pig. They drink milk from their mothers and grow from that.
 Polar bears mainly eat bearded seals. On an occasion, they also eat walruses and beluga whales. The polar bear uses the still hunting method to get its food. It remains motionless and when the seal comes up to the water, the polar bear bites its head. When the seal is captured, the polar bear bites it on the neck several times on the neck before devouring it.
 The polar bear is know to evolve from the brown bear and is thought to be the most recent of eight bear species. Scientists also think that the polar bear evolved from a group of brown bears in Siberia that became isolate by glaciers. The polar probably appeared first at the Pleistocene period and were much larger back then.

Kingdom Animilia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammilia
Order Carnivora
family Ursiade
Genus Ursus
Species maritimus

Bennett’s Wallabie
By Kaitlyn

KINDOM ANIMALIA
PYLUM  CHORDATA
CLASS MAMMALIA
ORDER MARSUPIALIA
FAMILY MARCOPODIDAE
GENUS DOROPSIS
SPECIES VETERUM

               The Bennett’s Wallaby makes a great pet! You care for them and they are very affectionate to you.  Bennett’s Wallabies come in different colors the most common Bennett wallaby is a grayish brown colored with light almost white under markings and some have black markings on them.
             The Albino Wallaby has a beautiful coat that is snow white.  All Wallabies are Marsupial that means that when the infant is born it is extremely tiny and crawl into the mother’s pouch where they feed on their mother’s milk.  This is where they stay warm and happy until they are five to seven months old.  At the age of five to seven they are fully furred and taken to the bottle fed and socialized with humans.
         Wallabies are also called Macrocodes.  A Bennett’s life span is approxemently ten to fifteen years, and approxementary three feet tall and are about thirty pounds when they reach maturity.  Male Bennetts are generally larger and more muscular weighing fifty pounds.  The height and weight of the species of wallabies varies considerably from one animal to another.
         The attention given to the Joey (baby wallaby) from the time he is taken from his mother, nourishment he receives, his environment, veterinary care, and the age at which he is taken away from his mother’s pouch are the most relevant factors in determining his adult disposition and physical condition.  Therefore, buying a Joey from a reputable breeder with references is very important.  The buyer gets exactly what he or she pays for! Within reason and current market values, that is! The buyer be informed is advice to be taken seriously.
                 Joeys are commonly kept in a baby’s playpen spending their early life in a home made pouch which can be made out of flannel material or a towel.  The pouch can be attacked to the side of the playpen with the bottom just off the floor of the playpen.  The Joey will grab the front of the pouch and summer salt into the pouch.  Some owners become real creative and design pouches they can wear taking their furry little pets with them where ever they go!!
 

American Kestrel
By Karen

Kingdom Anamilia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Falconiformes
Family Falconide
Genus Falco  (Sparrow)
Species Sparverius   (Hawk)

   Recognition
           An American Kestrel is nine to twelve inches long. These birds have pointed wings that span of twenty to twenty-four inches. The male rusty has blue-gray colored wings and black spots in the back and the sides. It also has two vertical black stripes on the cheeks. The female rusty is much different than the male because it has black bars on back and tail hovers. They pump their tail when they are perched.

   Evolution
           Kestrels are called raptors. Archeologists say that the first that was a bird was named Archaeoteryx. This first raptor was in the Jurassic Period of 180million years ago. Raptors first appeared in the Tertiary Period during the Eocene of 58million years ago.

   Habitat
           American Kestrels live in open countries, deserts, cities, farmlands and towns. They live in open countries because they like to hunt. They live in thecity because it likes to build it's nest on traffic lights.

   Nesting
         Kestrels lay 3-7 white or pinkish eggs. The eggs are laid on wood pecker nests. The incubation period is 29-31 daysby both parents. The birds live their nest 30-31 days later hatching.

   Main Diet
           We can tell what season it is by using a kestrel. How? you might tell me. Easy they eat insects in the summer and small birds and mammals on the winter. Their main diet are grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, dragonflies and cicadas.

     We have to take care of these birds because there might be another species in danger. I hope you like this report.

  By ZZ
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Pavo cristatus
Order Galliformes
Family Phasianidae
Genus Polyplectron
Species Pavo Musticus

 Peacock or Peafowl, common name for three members of the pheasant family. Although these birds are called Peacocks, that name is only given to males. Females are called Peahens. Two species are Asian, common or Indian peafowl. The third species is Congo peafowl. Found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Asian peacocks are noted for their trains of long upper tail coverts. They raise and spread their beautiful displays. The feathers are usually green and gold. They have eyelike markings of rich color known as peacock blue. Some blue also appears on the head, neck, breast, and crest of the peacock. Peacocks build their nests on the ground or on low branches of trees. The Peacock is an omnivore. It diets on worms, insects, small snakes and seeds. The peacock has been domesticated in many parts of the world. There are feral populations in the Hawaiian Islands. Selective breeding has produced a white variety of peacocks.

Shavonne
White Bengal Tiger
    The white bengal tiger is known to have evolved form the saber-toothed tigers, that lived about 35 million years ago, these tigers had long daggerlike canine teeth, but became extinct less then a million years ago. white bengal tigers have sexual reproduction ,they keep there diet consists of a medium prey such as pigs, deer, antelope, and buffalo they can consume as much as 80 lbs of meat in one feeding . The male tiger weighs 500 lbs and is ten feet long and the female weighs 300 lbs and nine feet long. they live in tropical jungle , brush , marsh lands and tall grasslands of bangladesh, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Burma . The white tigers have a chalky white coat with dark strips and icy like blue eyes .The male tigers usually travels alone, and marks its boundaries with urine, droppings and scratch marks .
Kingdom  Animal
Phylum   chordata
Class mammalia
Order    carnivora
Family   felidae
Genus   Panthera
Species  tigris
 
 

Jep

 The domesticated ferret is in the genus Mustela of the weasel family. Its specie is putorius furo. The kingdom that the Ferret belongs to is The Animal Kingdom. The ferret is in the order called carnivora, and the ferret’s phylum is cordata.
   Domestic ferrets are kept as pets or used for hunting rabbits and rats. Owners usually have the scent glands removed in order to alleviate the animals' strong musk smell. Generally, male ferrets are 40 to 65 cm (16 to 26 in) long, including the tail, and weigh 0.40 to 1.71 kg (0.88 to 3.77 lb). The color of the domestic ferret varies, with the most common being yellowish-white with dark hair tips and a black mask, tail, and feet. Some ferrets have completely brown, and almost black coats.
  There also is another type of Ferret the black-footed ferret it has a dull yellow coat with brown fur on the head and down the middle of the back. It has a black mask and black fur on the feet, the legs, and end of the tail. Males average 50 to 65 cm (20 to 26 in) in length, including the tail, and weigh around 0.96 to 1.71 kg (2.1 to 2.4 lb). Females are slightly smaller than the males. Black-footed ferrets are found in the prairies of North America. However, due to the drastically reduced number of prairie dogs, its main food source, the black-footed ferret has become an endangered species.
 The female ferret bears two litters of six or seven young each year. Domesticated ferrets have become so dependent upon humans that they cannot survive without care and if they are lost, they often die within a few days. Because common ferrets are subject to foot rot, their cages must be kept very clean. The animals subsist on a diet of water and meat that is similar to that given to the domestic cat.

The Red Panda
by Brian H.
 The Red Panda is endangered because people shot them and rather live them thare or they use there hats.They are in the catagory of Procyonidae(coatis,kinkojous&raccoons).In this artical you will Find out the food,the habitat,the characteristics,the behavire,and more.

 Some characeristics of the Red Panda are it is sensitive to heat.The Red Panda is very sensitive to hot weather.The claws are very pointy.They help them to climb.The paws are hairy and able to slip off of branches.The skull is a very powerful structure.There molars are powereful to.There toes are flat that let them climb easier.

 The red panda is usually called the lesser panda. The red panda travels in small packs and live in the mountains. They can live up to 14 years. The classification shown below is the categories there split into.

· Kingdom: Animalia
· Phylum: Chordata
· Class: Mammalia
· Order: Carnivora
· Family: Ursidae
· Subfamily: Ailurirae
· Genus: Ailurus
· Species: Ailurusfulgens

Lemurs
Christine
 

    Size and Appearance: Ring-tails have a body and head length of 15-18 inches. Its tail length is 22-24.5 inches. They weigh about 5-8 pounds. The upper parts of the body are brownish gray and the under parts are white. The tail is ringed with black and white. Their palms and soles are long, smooth and leather like. This allows them a firm footing on slippery rocks. Ring-tails differ from other lemurs because they have scent glands on their forearms
Habitat: This lemur is found in thinly wooded country and also farther into the interior highlands of Madagascar than any other lemur.
Distribution: Southern Madagascar. They are found only in the rain forests of southern Madagascar (mostly in the trees).
Reproduction and Offspring: Ringtails mate from about April to June. They give birth from August to October, just before the start of rainy season. Births are planed so they happen right after each other. Females give birth to one lemur, but twins are not uncommon. For the first two weeks the baby will ride on its mother’s belly, and after that on her back. They may suckle for up to five months. They start eating solids during its second month. Females generally first get pregnant at 20 months, and males are able to reproduce at 2.5 years but the adult males may not allow the females to breed.
Social System and Communication: Ringtails are found in groups of 12 to 24 with no consistent leadership. Males and females have separate dominance hierarchies. The females are always dominant over the males. The basic group structure is that of adult females and their infants, juveniles, and sometimes one or more dominant males. Females remain in their birth troops while the males move among troops. Females are responsible for territorial defense. As the territories are well defined and non-overlapping, when two troops meet, the females will run at each other yelling loudly but physical contact is uncommon. Fifteen different vocalizations have been identified, including a howl, which can be heard to humans from a distance of 3200 ft.
Hunting and Diet: They eat some leaves and other plants. The only thing other than plants is insects.
How rare is this animal? The International Species Information Service lists 1221 worldwide. There are 559 in the U.S. There are ten living in captivity.
 

Bottlenose Dolphin
                            By: Marcella

Kingdom:  Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Genus & Species: Tursiops trucatus

     The Bottlenose Dolphin has a slender and sleek body. The color of the back can be a grayish green to a grayish brown. The belly and the jaw are both white. The belly can be a little pinkish. There are two different types of bottlenose dolphins, coastal and offshore. They are differentiated by body and skull size. The coastal type has a smaller body, larger flippers, and is adapted to warm shallow waters. These dolphins live in harbors, bays, lagoons, and estuaries. The offshore type likes deeper waters and cooler temperatures. Its larger body and blood characteristics indicate that it is suited for deeper diving and defending itself from predators.
       The bottle nosed dolphin may migrate if food moves or if the water temperature changes. The dolphins that live in higher latitudes usually move on seasonal bases. The coastal dolphins usually stay around their usual homes and where other dolphins are. Some dolphins may live in a pod or alone. A pod is a group of dolphins that live together. Dolphins that live in a pod seem to have a bond with each other. The dolphin in charge makes sure that he is still in charge by biting, chasing, jaw clapping, and smacking their tails on the water. Bottlenose dolphins have been seen with other species of dolphins and different types of whales. Bottlenose dolphins eat different types of fishes, squid, and crustaceans.
       Female Bottlenose dolphins become sexually mature by the ages of 5 to 12 years of age. The male Bottlenose dolphins become sexually mature by the ages of 10 to 12. A Bottlenose dolphin’s gestation period is 12 months. A female usually gives birth from every 2 to 3 years. Sometimes there is another dolphin that stays with the mother and calf. The mother often whistles to the calf for it to recognize its mother.
 
 

Great White Shark
by Maria
Classifications

Kingdom-Animalia (animals)
Phylum-Chordata,
SubPhylum-Vertebrata (vertebrates)
Class-Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish),
SubClass-Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays),
Order-Lamniformes,
Family-Lamnidae,
Genus-Carcharodon,
Species-carcharias.

                    Great white sharks are a wonder of the vast ocean wildlife.  People see sharks as fierce creatures, but really they are the ones that are more often the victims. In this picture, you see that the sharks fins are being cut off. These people are doing this because it is very expensive to have shark fin soup and the fishers make a profit of $50.00 a fin. Even though they are often victims, they are also the aggressors at times.  In our country, shark attacks are most common in Florida.
             Great white sharks swim in salt water. They most commonly have about 3,000 teeth. Their bodies are made up of cartilage and the average length is 12-16 feet. The females are larger than the males.
            Great white sharks have a wide assortment of eating habits. Smaller great whites eat fish, other sharks, and rays. The adults, who are bigger and stronger, eat seals and sea lions, belugas, otters, sea turtles, sometimes humans and carcasses of animals. One big meal can make the shark not want to eat for up to 2 months. When they eat, they don’t chew up their food, but bite into it and swallow the prey whole.

             Sharks have a very acute sense of smell. Their eyesight isn’t very good at all. They use their senses of smell to pick up electric charges. They can pick up one drop of blood in 25 gallons of water. Because sharks use their gills to breathe, they only use their noses to smell.
 Great white sharks’ habitat is very simple. They are found near warm coastlines of waters from California to Alaska, and the east coast of the USA, most of the Gulf coast, Hawaii, South America, Australia, New Zealand, southern Russia, eastern China, West Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea.  After mating, some of the females migrate to warmer places such as Florida to give birth.
When great white sharks swim, they propel through the water with their tails. Unlike whales that use the tail through the water up and down, the great white shark moves the tail back and forth. Their oily liver has some uses to make sharks have some buoyancy. The great white shark, like some other sharks species, need to swim constantly because if they stop, they will sink to the bottom and die.
Great white sharks reproduce by giving birth to 2-14 pups that are already fully formed. When they are born they are approximately 5 feet long. The egg hatches in the female and is nourished by eating the eggs that haven’t hatched and their younger siblings. There is no placenta to give nutrients to the baby so they have to feed themselves even before they are born. After they are born the pups swim away from the mother right away.
 Scientists aren’t really sure but they estimate a shark’s life span to be about 100 years, but it isn’t proven in studies yet. And there might not even be a chance to study the amazing great white shark because it’s population is decreasing rapidly. Almost all of the killing of this sea creature is done by humans. There is some protection for them and more should be coming up and more is expected because of how they are dying in great numbers.

 By Amanda

  Classification
Kingdom ~ Animalia
Phylum ~ Chordata
Class ~ Aves
Order ~ Falconiformes
Family ~ Accipitridae
Genus ~ Haliaeetus
Species ~ Haliaeetus Leucocephalus

 The Bald Eagle is an amazing animal that can grow up to three feet tall. Also the Bald Eagle has a wingspan up to eight feet. Adult Bald Eagles have a distinctive white head and tail, a dark body, yellow eyes, a beak, and legs. Young eaglets are light brown, and do not develop a striking plumage until they mature to at least five years of age. Male and female eagles look alike but the female eagles are larger.

 Eagles mate for life. If one dies the other must find another mate. Courtship includes spectacular aerial displays where the birds grasp each other’s legs high in the air and plummet down towards the earth, cartweeling with their wings and legs outreached.

 Two to three eggs are laid and incubated for about thirty-two days. The eggs hatch several days apart. The first eagle is larger than its nest mates are. This is an advantage if food is scarce. The young eaglets grow quickly, soon crawling around the nest, squealing for food, and playing tug-a-war. At the age of ten to twelve weeks the eaglets are ready to leave the nest.

 The information that we know about the bald eagles migration advises that there are different patters of migration depending on where the eagle spends its summer. Adult eagles usually stay near their nesting area because the good supply of food and weather allows. Sub adults that have not yet made their nesting area are thought to wander more.
 When the bald eagles migrate south they always return to the same area and the same spot when the return north. The bald eagles do not change their nesting areas.
 The bald eagles travel at an average of thirty mph. To do this they ride thermals. They circle the strong thermals at high altitudes, which allows them to glide long distances.  The eagles do this in the direction of migration until they find more rising air.
    RedKangaroos
  By: Jamie
 

                      Classification
              Kangaroos belong to the kingdon Animalia. Their phylum is Chordata and the subphyla is Vertebrata. Kangaroos are in the class Mammalia and are in the order Marsupials. The kangaroos family is Macropod. Red kangaroos belong to the genus Macropus and the species Rufus.
 

                           Description
             Red kangaroos are one of the largest members of the macropod family. Males weigh up to 200 pounds and 1.8 meters and females weigh about 100 pounds and 1.25 meters. Red kangaroos live in the warm tropical areas of northern Australia. The color of their hair is a smokey gray color. Their bodies are small at the top and heavy at the bottom, but they are very large and powerful. Kangaroos have thin front legs with small hand-like paws. the soles on their feet have very rough and bumpy skin so they get a good grip. The red kangaroo can run 15 to 20 miles per hour and 35 feet in one hop. It's easy for them to run like that that because they have long and powerful legs and energy!
 

                  Eating and Drinking Habits
            Kangaroos are herbivores which are animals that eat only plants. They eat only green plants such as leaves and grass. The only thing they drink is fresh water. The kangaroo's body goes through process called fermentation. Fermantation is a process where plant materials get broken down.
 

                           Reproduction
          Kangaroos are marcupials. Marsupials are animals that finish their growth in a pouch. Their gestation period is 21 to 32 days. the baby kangaroo is called a joey  and is the size of a kidney bean. When it is born it's hairless and it can't see and hear. Instead of bone, when they are born, at first they have cartilage. The kangaroo starts developing the first months of its life. After four months it starts growing more and more. After about eight months the kangaroo is probobly to large to fit in the pouch.

By Timothy
THE THREE TOED SLOTH OF SOUTH AMERICA
The three toed sloth is a mammal in the Kingdom: animalia, Phylum: chordata, Class: mammalia, Order: edentata, Family: bradyodidae, Genus: bradypus tridtylus and Species: three toed sloth. The three toed sloth lives in Central and South America in forests from Honduras to North Argentina. It can often be found hanging upside down in trees.
The three toed sloth is covered in a dense, long shaggy fur which is usually tan or yellow brown in color. The sloth is two feet long with a short stubby tail and it can weigh about three to five kg. It’s arms have three claws and are longer than the legs. The head can turn around at a 270 degree angle and it also has nine teeth in its cheeks.
The stomachs of a sloth is complex and can be compared to that of a cattle or sheep. The gestation period of a sloth is seventeen to twenty-six weeks. Sloths’ eat leaves, shoots and some fruit. The sloths main enemies are jaguars and ocelots.
 

 Uromastyx
(Uromastyx Aegypticus)
By Nicholas
  Uromastyx's are lizards from the Kingdom Anemilia, Phylum Chordata, Sub-Phyla vertebrates, Class Reptilia, Order Lizards and Snakes, Family Lizards, Genus Uromastyx, Species (Uromastyx Aegypticus). This particular species of Uromastyx is found in Egypt and Asia. They live in climates from 90 degrees to 120 degrees Farhenheit!
The lizards live in desert climates all around Asia, Egypt, and Morocco. They don't live in any old desert spot they have to live near plants. This is because they are herbivores mostly. Occasionally, they will eat a cricket or two. These animals do not need water sources other than plants so people don't find them in moist areas.
 The Uromastyx Aegypticus is one of the largest members of the Genus Uromastyx. They can grow to about 30 inches or more in total length and weigh in at several pounds. The other Uromastyx's usual get to about 14 inches in length and weigh in at a couple of pounds. The color of the U. Aegypticus and the Uromastyx hardwicki is usually dark to light brown, but others, like the Uromastyx Acanthinurus, tend to be yellow, green, light orange, or a combination of these colors.
 Uromastyx's came from the Mesozoic era (Age of the Reptiles) which lasted for over more than 160 million years! The U. Aegypticus like most other Uromastyx's and reptiles evolved from the Cotlosaurs. It then adapted to live on land and in hot climates.
 Behaviors differ between the species and even individuals within the same species. Some U. Aegypticus' can be very shy, often retreating under a rock or other places to hide. Unlike the U. Aegypticus the Uromastyx Ornatus will often not retreat and defend itself with its uniquely spiked tail.
Most lizards are territorial. They will defend members of the same species or even other species. Often in captivity, two male lizards will fight openly. Even if aggression is not obvious, the submissive male can be adversely affected.
Large numbers of Uromastyx Aegypticus and U. Ornatus have been imported into the United States of America during the last few years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that 7,000 members of the Genus were brought in 1994. That’s about 28,000 deaths of this species a year! For reasons that are unknown the death rate for Uromastyx ornatus is rumored to be as high as 80% during the first two months of captivity!
 Uromastyx's reproduce sexually in the female's body. The female then lays the eggs that provide a perfect environment for the baby or embryo. This egg is called an Amniote egg. This egg contains membranes that cushion the embryo and gets rid of wastes in the egg until the embryo hatches.
These are fun and interesting creatures. If you want to buy a Uromastyx, you will need a tank that is large enough for it to move around freely. You will also need a heat lamp to make sure that the temperature is nice and hot, and make sure that you have one spot in the tank that is 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Remember it's a herbivore, so you'll need lots of vegetables but no water! Please be sure to take care of it, or else we will have another threatened or an endangered species on our hands!
 

Green Tree Python
By: Elizabeth P.

    Scientific Classification
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Reptilia
Order- Squamata
Family- Boidae
Genus- Chondropython (newer version: Morelia)
Species- viridis

 A unique species of animals is the Green-Tree Python. This type of Python is found on the Australian region, New Guinea, and New Guinea’s surrounding islands. These Pythons enjoy making a living in a warm, moist area, for example a rainforest.
 The Green-Tree Pythons come in a few different colors. As an adult, they are usually a bright green color. Green-Tree newborns are a light yellow color. They don’t receive any green coloring until they age from six to eight months. Although, the Green-Tree Pythons are obviously green at some point or another, there are some species that are found having a blue or yellow coloring. This species of snake can grow to be about 7 feet long.
(2.1M)
 This non-venomous, carnivorous animal eats many different things. Its appetite usually contains birds, mammals (including bats), frogs, and lizards. Many rows of sharp teeth help make hunting a lot easier!
 Green-Tree Pythons reproduce sexually. After fertilization the eggs are deposited from the female in about 20 to 24 days. The female usually lays about six through 30 eggs in a batch. The female Green-Tree Python then wraps her long, muscular body around them to keep them warm. The eggs hatch after 45-52 days since they were deposited. The new hatchlings are usually 280-350mm in length when they hatch and are light yellow in color.
 The Green-Tree Python is a very interesting reptile. They do make household pets but ONLY if you are quite experienced at handling snakes! If you are a beginner you might want to look for something easier, for example a small and harmless Garter Snake. Learning about the Green-Tree Python taught me to look at snakes from a whole different point of view.
 

SPERM WHALE
By Luis
Kingdom: Carnivores
Phylum:Chordata
Class: Mammals
Order: Cetacea
Family: Periade
Genus and Species: Physeter macrocephalos
Sperm Whales are mammals the lives in the sea. Like humans they are warm-blooded, breathe air with lungs, and nurse their young with milk.
Sperm Whales do not mate until they are about 30 years old. Females mate when they're about 9 years old and give birth to a calf every 3 to 5 years. Newborn sperm whales average about 13 feet in length and are weaned after 1 to 2 years.
Sperm Whales eat octopus, squid, lobters, fish snapper and they can also eat a shark.
The male sperm whale weighs is 45 to70 tons,
and the female weighs 15 to 20 tons. The male length is 60 to 65 feet.The females are 25 to40 feet.
Where this animals lives in the summer is Artic
and Antartic. In the winter they lives in all parts of the world.There color is dark drayfish or brown.This
animals are related with Pigmy sperm whales and
Drawf sperm whale.

 Bottle Nose Dolphin
By Mollie
Bottle- Nose Dolphin
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammals
Order: Celacea
Family: Delphinida
Genus: Tursips
Species: I. truncatus

The bottle nose dolphin is the largest dolphin, it may grow as big as nine feet in length and can weigh up to 800 pounds but most of these dolphins are smaller. They can be found world-wide but they prefer warm coastal waters. Bottle nose dolphins swim in groups called schools. They are gray in color and their backs are a lot darker in shade then the underside. This helps camouflage the dolphins. They have beaks that are up to three inches long and this is what makes them different from their relative, the porpoise. Bottle nose dolphins have 80 to 88 teeth although they do not need their teeth to eat.
 Dolphins reproduce during the Spring months . Their gestation period is 11 to 12 months long, which means that the calf is in the mother’s uterus for that period of time. During the birth, the calf comes out tail first. This is unlike human babies, which are born head first. The dolphin is able to swim and breath on its own within a few minutes. After the calf is born, it follows its mother closely and the mother nurses the calf for a period of 12 to 18 months. Dolphins usually have only one calf at a time and therefore they do not have many offspring in their lifetime. Bottle nose dolphins are mammals and therefore must breath air and keep their body temperature around 97 degrees. They surface every few minutes to breath through an air-hole on the top of their head.
 Some people think dolphins are among the most intelligent animals . They can bark and click and whistle. It has even been shown that they can talk and understand language. Dolphins have become famous for learning to imitate human speech. Dolphins, especially the bottle nose, are wonderful entertainers and can learn tricks, they can even learn to play basketball. Bottle nose dolphins adapt very easily to human companionship. They can hear echoes of sound under water and use their voices to bounce off objects to predict where objects and enemies are in the water. The U.S. Navy has shown that the system the dolphins use is just like the sonar system used by its submarines.
 Scientists believe that Dolphins have evolved from a furry four-legged land mammal that lived millions of years ago.
 Dolphins like to eat and eat a lot, although it is all small fish like sardines, herring and shrimp. They eat up to 65 pounds of food each day which is more then what I weigh.
 

Koala
By Jun
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Marsupialia
Family Phascolorc tidae
Genus Phascolarctos
Species Cinereus

Koala feeds on different types of eucalyptus tree. For example forest red gum, gray gum, and manna gum. Only one koala is born at a time. Koala is born with tiny, poorly developed offspring. Young Koala who is also called Joey is carried in a pouch attached to mother Koala's abdomen until Joey is developed completely.

Chimpanzee
by Bobby
  The chimpanzee lives in Africa. In the day the chimp sleeps, eats and plays. The Chimp sleeps in its nest and plays with the baby Chimps in the group. The Chimp likes to eat bannanas, ants, termites, fruit and Meat. The Chimps use many tools like a stick to get ants or termites out of there colony’s to eat. The Chimp reproduces sexually. The female gives birth to a baby Chimp and feeds it milk from her nipple this is called breast feeding. The Chimp evoled because it needed to hunt hide and to be able to climb. The Classifacations are,
 

· Kingdom- Animal
· Pylum- Chordata
· Class-  Mammalia
· Order- Primates
· Family- Pongidae
· Genus- Pan Troglodytes
· Species-Pan Troglodytes
 

Spider Monkey

By Gabriel

The Spider Monkey is a very agile creature and despite being thumbless uses its long tail as a fifth joint.  The Spider Monkey can be found in both southern Brazil and central Mexico.
This very skinny animal was named the Spider Monkey because of the way it sprawls out and it’s long legs.  The colors of this particular monkey are yellowish-gray and have white rings around their eyes, just like spiders.
Spider monkeys eat nuts, seeds, leaves, insects, and eggs.
Spider Monkeys reproduce sexually and fertilize internally.  Spider Monkeys can be born anytime of the year.  While moving the young hold on to the back of the mother.
The Spider Monkey stays up in trees most of the day until there are no predators around to get to food or water.  Spider Monkeys stay in-groups up to 20 per group.
These monkeys are very fast up in trees.  They can move from 4 to 10 miles per hour.

· Kingdom-Anamalia
· Phylum-Chordata
· Class-Mamalia
· Order-Primate
· Family-Cebidae
· Genus-Ateles Geoffroyi
· Species-Atles
              Ostrich 
                                                             By: Sarah
  The ostrich is found in Africa but was formerly found in the Middle East where it is now extinct.  The ostrich belongs to the kingdom Animalia, the
phylum Chordata, the class Aves, the order Struthionformes, the family Struthionidae, the Genus Struthio, and the species Camelus.  The
females lay their yellowish-white eggs together in a large depression in the sand.  The eggs weigh
about  3 lbs. each. The male sits on them at night and the female incubates them by day.  Ostriches
eat plants, like trees, bushes, and grass they also eat insects and sometimes small reptiles that they
can find.
Anthony
Penguins

Peguins 
by Anthony L.
    The penguin is black and white. They have webbed feet and are warm-blooded animals. They use their wings to swim not to fly. They are very good swimmers but not good walkers because their legs are far back on their body. Ancestors could fly because they had long wings. Evolution shortened their wings and made them stiff. Prehistoric penguins were also bigger than those of today.
There are seventeen different species of penguins. The largest, the Emperor is sixty pounds and three and a half feet tall. The smallest is the Fairy Penguin which is only eighteen inches tall and weighs less than three pounds. There are many different variations in between. Some others have orange or yellow markings on their heeds or beaks.
Penguins only live south of the equator. They are found on Antarctica, which is the South Pole and the coldest place on earth. Penguins also can be found on the coasts of South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They are kept warm in these icy conditions by layers of insulation. There is fat called blubber under their skin. Then fluffy feathers called down cover the skin. They preen their feathers so they are waterproof and wind proof.
The penguins’ diet is filled with fish. They also eat tons of krill, squid, and crustaceans. To catch all this sea food they have very good fishing equipment. The bill is sharp and has hooks that fit together. The tongue has bristles that grab the wiggling fish and push it down the throat. Their body also has a gland that removes the salt from the ocean water that they drink.  Penguins live in large groups called rookeries. A male and female become partners and stay togther. They build a nest from pebbles, mud, and vegetation. The female lays two eggs. The parents take turns incubating the eggs. When the babies hatch they are fed by regurgitation.
CLASSIFICATIONS
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Aves
Order-Sphenisciformes
Family-Spheniscidae
Genus and Species-Pygoscelis adeliae
 

By: Kamaran 
Kingdom Animilia
Phylum Chordate
Sub phylum Vertebrate
Class Reptiles
Order Lizard and Snakes
Family Snakes
Species Python
The Python is a snake found in Africa and South America. Pythons eat rats, snakes, birds, deer, and rarely eat humans. Pythons eat their prey by wrapping themselves around their prey and suffocating them to death after their prey is dead the python will swallow it’s prey whole. It may even take weeks or days for a python to swallow a small deer.

The python is have to believed to have evolved from the reptiles. Evolved or Evolution means when changes that occur over time in the hereditary features of an organism. It believed that it is evolved from the reptiles because they both have similar characteristics and traits. One of them is that both of them have scales and are warm blooded.
Snakes and Pythons can be found in small caves and they can weight about 100 to about 250 or 300 pounds. Pythons may also live in side hollow logs or in wattle or pile of branches or sticks.
Python’s way of reproduction is Externally. External means outside or egg. A Pythons egg may be 2in. Across and 3in. Length.
 

Goldfish
By Rui Au

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Carassius
Species: auratus
 Goldfish came from China over 1,000 year ago. The food of goldfish includes animal and plant, the first including water fleas, freshwater shrimps, gnat larvae and worms. The female lays 500-1000 eggs in May through August. The male follow the female around all the time she is spawning. The eggs stick to the water plants. When 18 days old larvae will be 1 in. long and will feed on water fleas, especially 'daphney'.

Classification
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Felinae
Genus: Panthera

    The Jaguar is the largest standing cat in North America. It stands 3 feet off the ground. This animal weighs between 100 – 200 lbs. Jaguars are carnivores. They mostly hunt at night. They’re prey are Deer, Reptiles & rabbits. The Jaguars live in a wide variety of habitats such as Forests, Tropical Evergreens, and Tropical wildlife. Jaguars mate year around. The Kittens will start to hunt at 6 months old. Extra info is that unlike most cats Jaguars love to play in the water. They also will hunt for fish.
Classification

Other Names
            Jaguar (French)
            Jaguar (German) Other Names
            Jaguar (French)
            Jaguar (German)
            tigre, tigre real, yaguar,
            jaguar, jaguarete (Spanish)
            onça, onça pintada, onça
            canguçu (Brazil)
            tig marqué (French Guiana)

                                      zac-bolay (Mayan)
                                      jaguareté (Paraguay)
                                      otorongo (Peru)
                                      penitigri (Surinam)
                                      yaguar (Venezuelan)
                                      onça negra, yaguara pichuna,
                                      yagua-hu (black jaguars)
The Jaguar is the largest animal in all the Americas. Jaguars are just like leopards people say but not quit known to science. The leopard has a much smaller head & a leaner body. Jaguars are a lot bigger and stronger. Also leopards & jaguars spots are not Quit the same. Jaguars have big spots & leopards have small spots.

Ryan
 
 
 

The Koala Bear
 
 

        The Koala is a mammal about 2-3ft. tall and weighs only 10-30lbs. It is located in the forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. The Koala eats Eucalyptus trees. A newborn Koala is very tiny and is called a Joey. After the baby has been in the pouch for a month the mother produces a special substance called pap which the baby feeds on until it can survive on its own.
  Koalas belong to the kingdom Animala, the phylum Chordata, The Subphylum Vertibrata, the class Mammalia, the subclass Marsupiala, Diprodontia, and the family Phascoluctidae.
 There are many special adaptations of the Koala. It has extra thick fur to protect it from the worst weather. It has opposable thumbs for climbing. Another useful adaptation is that it can store food in its cheek pouches.

Koala bears reproduce sexually inside the female’s body. They give birth to poorly developed offspring.
                                   -By
                                         Dan

Australian Koala
By Jackie S.
 
 

  The Australian Koala is found in the forests of Encarta in eastern Australia.  They are marsupials.  The koala is a distant cousin of the wombat.  They are nocturnal animals.  Their young are called a joey.  They are warm- blooded vertebrates.  The koala reaches a length of 60 to 85 cm.  It has a maximum life span of 13 to 18 years.  When the baby koala is born, it can fit into the palm of your hand.

  The scientific classification of the Australian Koala is:
Kingdom – Animal
Phylum – Vertebrata
Class – Mammillae
Sub Class – Marsupialia
Order – Diprotodontia
Sub order – Vombatiformes
Family – Phascolarctidae
Genus – Phascolarctos
Species – cenereus
 
 

  The koala is not related to the bear.  Although, some people say it looks like a bear.  It has a large, round head, with big round furry ears.  It also has a stout body covered with thick ashy-gray fur.  The koala has a short and furry tail.  Its legs are short.  Its feet are large, and each foot has five toes with claws at the end of them.  Two toes out of the five are opposable.

  Koalas are tree dwelling marsupials. They are herbivores.  They eat eucalyptus leaves almost exclusively.  They also eat box leaves and mistletoe.  But they have to be careful because some of these leaves are poisonous. They have a large nose with nose hairs that are able to sense what eucalyptus leaves to eat and not to eat. Their digestive system has adapted to help them digest these kinds of leaves. A fully grown Koala eats a bit more than one kilogram of leaves a day.  Since the eucalyptus leaves are mostly made of water, the koalas don’t have to drink water.  They don’t have to drink because they get their water from eucalyptus leaves.  They eat so many leaves that they smell like the leaves they ate.

  The koala reproduces sexually. Each mother has only 1 baby a year. The gestation period is only 35 days. The baby continues to grow inside the pouch until it is weaned at 5
 

months.  The mother has a pouch for nursing it’s young.  It stays on its mother’s back until it is half grown. When the baby is born, it is only 1 cm long.  It is born blind.

  The males are more active than
the females.  Males eat during the
day. Meanwhile, females sleep all
day and eat at night.  Koalas sleep
18 hours a day.   Koalas sleep
curled up on the limbs of trees.
They grab onto the trees with
their feet.

  Koalas are normally hunted for their soft, gray, smooth fur.
They are now protected by the law in Australia, because
people are destroying their habitat.
The koalas that live in certain areas are becoming extinct.
This is a threat to the whole koala population.
The koala is in danger.
The koala is an excellent symbol for Australia.  People love the koala and are trying to protect it.

The Spotted Seal
Heather Gaun
            The Spotted Seal is from the kingdom animalia, phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebra, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, suborder Pinnipela. Most seals eat fish and sometimes even eat squid. Their teeth act as a fishing hook and catch fish, and squid. Spotted Seals give Eskimos food and skin for fur for their clothing. The population of the Spotted Seal went from 200,000 to 80,000 currently. The spotted seal is found in the northern Alaskan waters.
            The Spotted Seal can live 25 years some have even been known to live 35. Physical maturity happens between the ages of 7 and 8 years. Even thought they are mature they continue to increase in size throughout life. Females of the Spotted Seals reach sexual maturity at about 3 to 4 years of age. The male Spotted Seal reach sexual maturity at about 4 to 5 years of age.
            In Alaskan waters, Spotted Seals spend their winters in the southern part of the Bering Sea to pack ice.  By late summer to early autumn they are found along the entire northwestern coast of Alaska, though they are not found in large numbers in the Beaufort Sea.   Spotted seals are cautious and difficult to approach.

         The Echidna 
 
 

                        Anteater of Australia
                                                  By Michelle Brenseke

The Echidna is one of the two kinds of                                   Animalia
Monotremes in the world along with the duck-billed                         Chordata
Platypus. A Monotreme is a type of mammal that                             Vertebrae
lays eggs and feeds its young milk through its skin. The                   Mammalia
kingdom that the Echidna belongs to is Animalia, the                      Monotremata
phylum is Chordata, the subphyla is Vertebrae, the class                Tachyglossidae
Mammalia, the order is Monotremata, the family is the                      /             \
Family is Tachyglossidae, the genus and species for the          Zaglossus  Tachyglossus
Long-beaked Echidna is Zaglossus bruijni and the genus         bruijni         aculeatus
And species for the short-beaked Echidna is Tachyglossus aculeatus. The Echidna is  native to Australia. There are only two species of Echidna alive today and the rest are extinct. The short-beaked Echidna lives in Australia, Tasmania, and although less commonly, in New Guinea. The long-beaked Echidna is much rarer than the short-beaked Echidna and lives only in the highland regions of New Guinea. Both kinds of Echidna’s colors vary from blonde to dark. The Echidna resembles a porcupine but are very different. Echidnas also have an elongated third claw on the hind foot that it uses to
groom itself with.
 Echidnas belong to the Monotremes but they also have pouches! Female
Echidnas after mating have a gestation period from 21 to 28 days before they lay their cream-colored, leathery eggs and place them in their pouches. The eggs hatch in around 10 days after the eggs were laid. A full grown short-beaked Echidna is around one foot long and weighs around 15.4 pounds. The long-beaked Echidnas weigh more.
Echidnas eat ants and termites. Echidnas catch their food by shooting out their sticky tongue and can even bend their tongues in U-shapes to follow ant tunnels to find their food. Since Echidnas don’t have teeth, they grind they food they catch with special hard pads on the back of the tongue and top of the mouth.
 It is believed that Monotremes probably evolved during the Mesozoic era from a group of extinct mammal-like reptiles, Theriodontia, which existed during the Triassic period. Since monotremes only live in Australia then the kind of reptile-like mammal that the monotremes evolved from must have only lived in Australia is now. Echidnas can be either active at night or day depending on the temperature.
Echidnas are most active when the temperature is mild. This means that they are active at night during the summer and other times during the day. Echidnas also can digs holes in a matter of second and can move heavy objects when they want to escape.
 

                 The Crested Gibbon
    By Samantha
Classification
Kingdom ~ Animalia
Phylum ~ Chordata
Subphyla ~ Vertibrata
Class ~ Mammalia
Order ~ Primates
Family ~ Hylobatidae
Genus ~ Hylobates
Species ~ Hylobated Concolor

 Primates have been known to be around as early as 70 million years ago. Great apes and Lesser apes used to be all one group at the beginning. But about 20 million years ago, great apes became a different group. Crested gibbons are Lesser apes. Gibbon- like fossils have been found in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The Crested gibbon is full grown and can reproduce at about 12 years old. They reproduce sexually and females are pregnant for about 7 months with single babies. The newborns are hairless except for a small section on the top of their heads.
Gibbons get to about 3ft. long, and weigh about 15 pounds. They eat fruit, leaves, flowers, insects, and small birds.

~~~The Snowy Owl~~~~
By: Cynthia

Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals, first classified the Snowy Owl in 1758. The name "scandiaca" is a Latinate word referring to Scandinavia, because the owl was first seen around there.  Some other names for the Snowy Owl are Arctic Owl, Great White Owl, Ghost Owl, Ermine Owl, Tundra Ghost, Ookpik, Scandinavian Night bird, and White Terror.   The Snowy Owl is a big, white owl that has a circle-like head, yellow eyes and a black bill/beak. The feet have a lot of feathers.  Females and babies are marked more than males - adult males may be almost totally white, although they have up to three tail stripes. Adult females are noticeably barred throughout, and have from four to six tail stripes.  Younger owls are barred throughout, and sometimes the spots cover all the feathers. Greatness of dark spotting varies with the gender of the young ones, females being the darkest.  Juveniles are uniformly brown with scattered white tips of down.  Snowy Owls have a direct, strong, and steady flight with deliberate, powerful down-strokes and quick upstrokes. They make quick flights near to the ground, from perch to perch, and usually perches on the ground or a low post. During hot weather, they can cool down by panting and spreading their wings.           The Snowy Owl is very quiet during seasons that are not breeding. During the breeding season males have a loud, booming "hoo, hoo" given as a territorial announcement or mating call. Females rarely hoot. Its attack call is deep.  When excited it may emit a loud "hooo-uh, hooo-uh, hooo-uh, wuh-wuh-wuh". Other sounds are dog-like barks, rattling cackles, shrieks, hissing, and bill snapping.  Nestlings "cheep" up to 2 weeks of age, then hiss and squeal.  The Snowy Owls live 9½ years in the wild, and 35 in captivity.  This is because they have little predators.  They live in tundra or open grasslands.  They rarely go into or live in forests.  The Snowy Owl will sit and look for prey, swiveling its head 270 degrees.  They will then dive down on it.  They eat fish hares, and much other larger prey.            Courtship behavior can begin in midwinter through to March and April, far away from areas of breeding. Males will fly in rolling, moth-like flight when females can be seen. On the ground males will bow, ruffle feathers, and strut around with wings spread trailing on the ground. Males kill and show off prey in caches to impress females, often giving his prey to her. The Snowy Owl nests almost always on the ground, where the female makes a shallow scrape with her talons on top of a raised mound, or boulder. Abandoned eagle nests are used sometimes. Nests may be lined with vegetation and feathers. Nest sites must be near good hunting areas, have no snow, which is strange due to their name, and rule a view of surroundings.  Breeding occurs in May, Clutch and brood sizes are heavily dependent on food supply.  Clutch sizes normally range from 5 to 8 white eggs but may be as many as 14 eggs during good years. They are laid at approximately 2-day intervals.  The female incubates the eggs, where as the male gives protection and food. Eggs hatch in 32-34 days after being layed, which was 2 days apart, leading to big age differences in nests with a lot of eggs. Young are covered in white down, feathers that are very fluffy.  Young begin to leave the nest after about 25 days, before they can fly. They are fledged at 50 to 60 days. Both parents feed and tend the young, and are fiercely protective and may attack intruders up to ½ a mile from the nest! Nestling Owls require about 2 lemmings/day and a family of Snowy Owls may eat as many as 1,500 lemmings before the young disperse. Snowy Owls are single brooded and likely do not lay replacement clutches if their first clutch is lost. Almost 100% nesting success can be achieved during good years.
 Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata (having a hollow dorsal nerve cord and flexible skeletal rod)
Sub-Phylum: Vertebrata (having a backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Strigiformes (Owls)
Genus: Nyctea
Species: Scandiaca
This is a picture of the beautiful and majestic Snowy Owl

By: Laura
     The Emperor penguin is an aquatic bird that lives in the Southern Hemisphere. It does not fly, and it’s black and white body is held in an upright stance due to it’s short legs placed far back on it’s body.
     In general, penguins are grouped into 18 species and 6 genre.  Most are found in Antarctica and sub Antarctic islands.  The rest call it home in Australia, South America, South Africa and the Galapagos Islands.
     Penguins are descendents from flying ancestors, but yet they can’t fly and are great swimmers.  Their stiff wings resemble paddles from other swimming vertebrates.  They do not have feather tracts like most flying organisms, but have small scale like feathers covering almost their whole body.  These birds shed all of their feathers and shed some from the beak in a short period of time.
     Penguins are very good at withstanding intensely cold temperatures due to small bodies which results in superb heat conservation.  Penguins also have a thick insulating layer of fat under their skin.
     The Emperor penguin, that weighs about 60-70 pounds, is the best at this skill.
     They usually walk or hop, and sometimes even toboggan along the front side of their small bodies, pushing with wings and feet.  Swimming is easy with their great speed and agility.  In the water, they rely on their flippers for propulsion.  The feet are then trailed behind and used for steering.  Some penguins even use the method of porpoising, which is swimming underwater for a distance, then surfacing in an arch to get air, and then dive into the water again.
     Emperor penguins feed on fish, cuttlefish, crustaceans, and other small sea creatures.  They usually don’t learn how to pick up their own food.
     These creatures are found in flocks almost everywhere they go.  Flocks often number into the hundreds of thousands.
     Enemies of the Emperor penguins are leopard seals, killer whales, and sometimes skuas.  The human also is feared because of poaching for blubber and skin.
     Emperor penguins breed in groups called rookeries.  They lay their eggs in temperatures as low as –80 degrees F.  They find their mates with calls and postural displays.  The emperor penguins don’t build nests, but hold the egg on top of it’s feet and hunch down so that a layer of abdominal skin covers and warms the egg.  They lay clutches of usually two eggs, and the incubation period varies.  Both genders incubate and feed the young.
     Emperor penguin chicks are born with a sooty-looking, gray down covering them.  After that is shed, it acquires it’s first plumage.  It then enters the sea and from then on it’s on it’s own.
     The Emperor penguin’s classifications are as the following:
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Aves
Order-Sphenisciformes
Family-Spheniscidae
Genus-Aptenodytes
Species-Forsteri

TIGERS by Berec
The kingdom of the tiger is Animila, the phylum is Chordate, the class is mammals, the order is Carnivores, the family is filed, the genus is Pantheria, and the species is Siberian tiger.
 Tigers are the biggest of the cat family. The biggest cats are loins, leopards, jaguars, snow leopards and tigers. Tigers can live in many types of lands.
 The tiger's homeland is in Aias.
The tiger are not found in any other continent. Tigers are warm-blooded and tigers do not like hot weather. Tiger are really good swimmers and sometime tigers spend all day soaking them in the river. And the water helps them cool off.
 Sometimes male tigers share their territory with the female tigers. But male tigers never share with another male tiger. Tiger are carnivores. They mostly hunt at night.
  They avoid the elephants and they rarely attack a large buffalo or bears. The gestation period for a tiger is from 98 to 110 days. A young tiger stays with his or her mother.
 A full-grown male tiger weighs as much as 500 pounds and may it be 10 feet long, including the 3-foot tail. The scientific name for the tiger is Leo Tigris.

Pythons
*~ By: Ryan ~*

 A python is one of the largest animals in the world. Some like the Indian python can grow up to be over thirty feet long while baby reticulated pythons are only about six inches at birth. A python reproduces sexually and the fertilization takes place internally. The female lays the eggs in a nest a few days after fertilization. After about 2 ½ months the eggs hatch and the six to ten in. baby snake takes its first breathe of air.

Pythons are predators that feed on other snakes, lizards and sometimes birds. While eating the python will unhinge its jaws so it can swallow things heavier and bigger than itself. Some pythons inject venom that can sometimes kill in a few seconds.

They live near water and some, like the Indian python are semi-aquatic. Most are land dwellers. They can also live in jungles, can be tropical animals and live and climb in trees. Their skin has very distinct patterns on them such as diamonds or camouflage. Some are so hard to spot that when you are hiking on a trail you might step on it and it could bite you in the foot or leg.
  These are the classifications as follows:

Kingdom-Animalia,  Phylum-Chordata, Class-Reptilia,
Order-Squamata, Family-Boidae, Genus example-Python,
Species example-reticulatus
The Great White Shark

By Chris
The Great White's Classification is:
Kingdom-Animal
Phylum-Chordata
Sub Phylum-Vertebrata
Class-Chondrichthyes
Order-Lamniformes
Family-Laminodae
Genus-Carcharadon
Species-carcharias

The Great White reproduces internally and sexually. After the embryo is full-grown, the mother gives birth to a baby Carcharadon Carcharias. A baby Great White.
 A Great White diet is a wide spectrum of under-water animals. It eats Bony fish such as salmon, hake, rockfish, seals, sealions and tunas. It weighs in at about 3 tons.
 Back in the prehistoric age when the dinosaurs lived Great White sharks could range from 20 feet to about around 100 feet and its body was weighed in tons. Its teeth are about 7 inches in width and 5 inches in length.
Great whites are fascinating because they have a amazing history and for the reason they attack people. They're reason for attacking people is because of the way we swim. We splash when we swim. Therefor they think we are a seal or a seallion. The cool part is they don’t want to attack people

 

The Giant Panda Bear
by Jake

Kingdom.  Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Family Ursidae
Subfamily Ailurinae
Genus Ailurus
Species Ailurus Fulgens
The classification of an animal is that animals place in the world and shows
My name is Jacob and I did a research on the giant panda bear. I learned many things about the giant panda bear that I will tell you. The first thing , is very important is the classification.
My research also showed me that the Giant Panda Bears are endangered of being instinct. People are cutting down the environment which included bamboo which they eat and trees where they live. The WWF is now in action trying to save them. The Giant Panda Bears live in forests and they feed on the long big bamboo that grow on the mountainsides in parts of Szechwan, Province in Central China. The Giant Panda Bear is a good natured black and white bear, about 1.5 meters in length from nose to tail. It’s eyes are surrounded by black patches like spectacles. It’s head is large and it’s tail is very short.
 These Gigantic bears also have a nice side in their life. They mate by leaving scent marks on stumps and logs to attract mates. This is its way of doing it’s courtship behavior. This is the conclusion to my Giant Panda report and I hope you enjoyed it very much.
 

Hermit Crabs
by Gus
 

Kingdom- Animalia   Phylum- Arthropoda   Class- Crustacrea
Order- Decapoda    Family- Paguridae     Genus- Pagurus
   Species- Pagurus prideaxi
 

 Hermit crabs are a type of Animura (false crab).  They are omnivorous scavengers, which means that they look for plants to eat.  They feed on small plants and animals and sometimes eat them with sand and dirt.
 Hermit crabs reproduce sexually.  Once the eggs develop, the female leaves the eggs at a place where the tide can carry them out to sea, after she has carried them on her back.  Hermit crabs do not mate in captivity, but instead, they mate near the sea.  The female carries 1,000 to 50,000 eggs at a time.
 When the baby hermit crabs hatch, they are small larvae.  Then, they molt a couple of times to get the characteristics of a usual adult larvae hermit crab.  When they do reach that stage, they then start to look for a shell to live in.  Once hermit crabs have a shell, they swim to the mainland in order to live there for the rest of their lives.
 A hermit crab will inspect a shell thoroughly, before it moves into it.  Using its antennae and its legs, the hermit crab checks the shape and size of the shell.  The hermit crab sometimes puts a claw inside the shell in order to roll it on all sides.  Because of that, the hermit crab knows if it has found a suitable home.  If the hermit crab wants to try on the new shell, it will put its abdomen into the new shell while still having the old one in its claw.  When the hermit crab changes its shell, it changes it quickly, since hermit crabs are vulnerable to predators without their shells.  The only way you can tell the difference between a male and a female hermit crab is when they are out of their shells.
 A hermit crab molts in order to grow on land.  Once a hermit crab molts, no matter how old it is, it will take about 10 days for the hermit crab’s skin to get hard again.  During those 10 days, it is best for a hermit crab to be in a warm environment.  If a hermit crab has lost a leg, it can grow it back when it ,molts.  In the wild, hermit crabs can live up to 25-30 years.  But usually when they are in captivity, they live about 1 year.
 Hermit crabs eat a wide variety of foods, which can include pretzels, apples, bacon bits, and especially water.  Hermit crabs have a strong sense of smell.  They
Eat lots of fruits and they also eat plenty of salty foods.  They can eat pretzels and bacon bits to give them the salt they need.  Hermit crabs need fresh water to drink from.  When a hermit crab is near the water, it can moisten its gills, which they breathe through.
 Since hermit crabs are nocturnal, they seem inactive during the day.  The only way hermit crabs can sleep at night is if you wake them up during the day.
 Usually, large hermit crabs are aggressive towards smaller hermit crabs.
 
 

  Weasels are in Town!
 Katherine
 Kingdom- Animelia
 Phylum- Chordata
 Class- Mammaila
 Order- Carnivora
 Family- Mutelidae
 Genius- Mustela
 Species- frenta
  This is my project on the ferocious Weasel. I hope you like it.
   Just A Baby

Baby male weasels weigh 4 oz when born. When grown up they weigh 15 to 20 oz and their height is 11 inches. The female when born weighs 2 oz, when it is grown up its length is 10 inches.
   It’s Habitat
Weasels can be found almost anywhere including woods, scrub land, hedges, rocky country, barns, and even sometimes in large towns. The weasel is a nocturnal animal but sometimes may come out
during the day.
   The Way It Hunts
It is a fast runner, can climb trees and swim very fast. An unmerciful killer and hunts mainly by scent. It is a brave and ferocious animal that will hunt animals bigger than itself . Weasels may hunt alone or in family packs. The normal method of hunting is to stalk or trail their prey and then to pounce swiftly and kill with a bite to the back of the head. Weasels mark their territorries by using musk from the glands under their tails.This musk is also released when an animal is severely disturbed or may also be used to bring males and females together for breeding season.
  Their Daily Diet
 To get to birds eggs they must climb trees or swim in the water to get to voles. Mice and voles are what weasels usually eat because of the size of it's prey and the size of the weasel. If it is very hungry it will eat freshly killed shrews or very rarely carrion but that does some damage in poultry runs.
  The Reproduction
 The female builds her nest of leaves, grass, or moss in a hole,a bank or low in a hollow tree. Pregnancy may occurr in any month from September to August but it is most frequent in April and May.The gestation period is about 6 weeks. They reproduce sexually, which means there is both sperm and egg.
            Where These Furry Creatures   Came From.
  The weasel came from the warm-blooded animal named the Cynodonts, a late group of mammal-like-reptiles. They almost came known in the crustaceous, definitely co-existed with many of the major dinosaurs.

Duck-Billed Platypus
By Matt
 The platypus belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Ornuthorynchus, Family Ornithorhyhynchidae, Order Monotremata, Genus Ornithorhynchus, & Species Anatinus.
 The platypus is a carnivore that eats insects, shellfish, worms, & shrimp. The platypus lays eggs & partly lives in water. They live in Tasmania & Eastern and Southern Australia. The platypus’s coolest feature is its small head that’s called the bill. The bill can get to be 6 meters long and 5 meters wide. The platypus uses its bill to stir up mud to find food. The head is joined to the platypus’s body without a neck. Its eyes are small, it has and has no ears on the outside, but it has good hearing and smelling. Both males and females have a hollow spur on the inner side of the hind leg, from there a toxic fluid in ejected and can be used for defense.
 Platypuses are shy animals so they can’t be found by hunters. The platypuses only come out in the early morning & the late evening they are excellent swimmers as you can see in the picture above. They live in long, winding burrows, which the female usually digs in rivers or streams. At the end of the burrow {which is 9 to 18 meters long} the female builds a nest with weeds, grass, & grass. The female usually lays 2 eggs at a time but she can lay up to 4. The young platypuses are bald when they are born.
 The platypus is a cousin with the anteater. The platypus, the anteater, and marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals. The male when it’s full-grown is about 65 centimeters long including a 12 to 15 centimeter tail. The platypus has 5 toed feet that are webbed. The young feed through many tiny openings in the skin of the mother’s belly.

THE RAVEN

By
Sean Longworth
 

 The Raven.  Is it as means as you think?  Is it as hideous?  Well, all your questions are about to be answered.

 The Raven is a bird with a glossy black color, a big beak, and very strong talons.  They reproduce sexually.  Their wingspan is over four feet.  They are scavengers, and also the largest members of the crow family.  The Raven’s length is 25”; while it’s width is 50”.  The Ravens DO NOT like to be together is groups.  Their air speed velocity is 34.8 miles per hour.

 They like to eat:  carrion, crustaceans, bird eggs and young, insects, berries, and small animals.

 Their habitats are:  remote forests, desserts, sea cliffs, mountains, and Arctic and Alpine Tundra.

 For those of you who think the Raven is very stupid bird, you are wrong.  In fact, the Raven is one of the smartest birds in the world.  For example, if two Ravens want to take a dog’s steak, one would distract the dog while the other one gets the steak.

 The Raven is very famous for the classic poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled, THE RAVEN.  THE RAVEN is about a man who mourns over his beloved wife who recently passed away and asks the Raven if he would ever see his wife again and the Raven just says, “NEVERMORE.”  At the end the Raven just leaves the man in his own misery, worse than ever.
 
 

Kingdom  -  animalia
Phylum  -  chordata
Class  -  aves
Order  -  passeriformes
Family  -  corvidae
Genus - Corvus
species  -  corax

 *~ Moose on the Loose ~*
~ By: Amanda ~

    Thank you so much for letting our web-site of information on animals enrich your life with facts and knowledge. We had an incredible time working on this project and I would like to thank all of the students on Team 4, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Mazzola for their constant support and for Mrs. Farmers never-ending technological help!

          Good-bye and thanks again!