Giraffes eat a lot too; up to as much as 66 pounds a day. Surprisingly, giraffes are rarely seen drinking because they receive most of their water through the consumption of acacia tree leaves. A giraffe uses its tongue to pluck leaves of branches, among other things. Like humans, giraffes have 32 teeth, except with one difference. In the top row where our teeth are usually located, giraffes have a bony ridge instead.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Home Page | | Language Arts | | Mathematics | | Special Projects | | Cool Links | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Land Iguanas by Neil Land Iguanas are really cool animals. There are three species of Land Iguanas: Conolophus, Subcristatus, and Conolophus Pallidus. Land Iguanas are yellow and orange underneath and red and brown on top. They are mostly found in deserts or the Galopagos Islands, under cactuses. Their habitat is really dry.
The average Florida Panther needs about three thousand calories per day to keep them going. Pregnant females need about eight thousand calories and growing kittens need about twenty thousand calories per day to survive. They tend to eat larger animals, such as deer and wild pigs, but also eat raccoons, armadillos, rabbits, and other smaller game. They are not all carnivorous though, they will occasionally eat some plants. At night, when this remarkable animal is wide awake, they travel in zig-zag patterns while they hunt and defend their territory.
The doe can fight the predator or get the predator to chase the mother instead of the fawn! White-tailed deer are born in May or on into early June. A young doe can mate her first year if she chooses, but she can only have one little deer her first year because her body can only support one. Since white-tailed deer can reproduce at such a young age population is very high. Many female deer like to be alone during birth so they find somewhere quiet.
The chimpanzees at the zoo carry a human diet. They enjoy eating fruits and meats, water, and tasty nuts. Although chimps are bipedal they choose to, most of the time walk on all fours. That is something we as humans do not have in common with chimpanzees. Although we can crawl, we use only our feet to walk and run.
The eggs will stay in the mothers uterus until after hibernation which is around late February and March. Then she will give birth to around 2-4 cubs depending on the age of the mother and how much food she has. When the cubs are born they are blind, hairless and very tiny. They weigh around 1 once or so. These cubs are virtually helpless for the first few weeks but can suckle their mother for a rich diet.
Usually Savannah and Black throats live about ten years but do, to poor care and bad cages they usually don’t make it more than a year in captivity. While they both need a basking spot of 130 F or more and a high elevated spot to achieve better basking. Also Savannahs and Black throated –monitors make great pets to the people that are allergic to dogs and cats. They also don’t need much attention like dogs and cats do so when you’re too busy to give them your full attention they will be fine. They both hibernate when the temperature in there environments are not hot enough.
PETA’s campaign SeaWorld of Hurt shares, “In captivity, orcas are unable to hunt and obtain water from their prey, so SeaWorld gives them gelatin, a substance that is not natural for them, in an attempt to keep them hydrated. Tilikum, who weighs 12,000 pounds alone consumes 83 pounds of gelatin every day.” (SeaWorld of Hurt) The SeaWorld Parks are blatantly taking advantage of the helplessness of these mammals, using them as props for education and
The tail is used in almost every move they make, climbing trees, grasping branches, balancing and even protecting themselves from predators. (PIN) I really noticed how much they value their tails, as I observed them at the Los Angeles zoo, Their tails are very unique and are not found in any old world monkeys. Hey have long fingers which resemble hooks are used to exactly as that, they hook and grip branches. The cool thing about the spider monkey is that they have little to no thumbs. Nature has selected out the thumb in order for the spider monkey to swing through trees since they are closely 100% arboreal as well as 100% quadrapedal.
Their litter sizes range from five to twenty babies. The babies are born "alive" and not in eggs, although they hatch in eggs while still in the mothers before they are born. They are born in August and early September. It takes these young snakes around three to four years to reach sexual maturity and most females only reproduce every other year. If food is scarce, she