Anteater

1. Anteaters have no teeth.
2. When an anteater eats ants and termites he doesn't destroy the ant hill or mounds. He just wants his food.
3. With their long tongue, they can lap up 35,000 ants or termites while swallowing them whole.
4. The anteater uses its claws to open up the whole to the ant hill and uses its long snout to to put it down the whole to eat the ants, and the anteater does this quickly.
5. An Anteater can flick their tongue up to 160 times per minute!!
6. While an anteater is trying to eat it's dinner, the ants will actually sting the anteaters tongue. So the Anteater has only so much time to eat as many ants as he can.
7. Anteaters have horrible eye sights, so they use there keen sense of smell more than their eyes.
8. Anteaters are found in Central America and South America.
9. Anteaters prefer more tropical places and also grasslands.
   
   
10. There is four different species of anteaters. They also are in all different sizes.
11. A Silky Anteater can be the size of a squirrel.
12. Some anteaters like the silky anteater go after there prey in the trees.
13. An Anteater is a mammal.
14. They can live up to 14 years.
15. Anteaters can weigh up to 40 to 140 pounds.
16. Anteaters are a threatened species.
17. The tongue of an anteater can be up to two feet long.
18. A female Anteater has one offspring per year.
19. Anteaters are not aggressive at all, but they can be fierce.
20. 
    When an anteater feels threatened they will get up on their back legs using their tail for balance and use their claws to protect themselves.

Who? Who? Who?



 Owls are nocturnal, which mean they see better at night. They stand in an upright stance, they have a large, broad head, outstanding vision and hearing, and there feathers are made to be silent when they fly. Owls are one of the most amazing and fascinating animals on earth. Some facts might actually surprise you, not many people know much about owls.

There is more then 150 different species of owls around the world. Only 19 different species are found in North America. All different owls live in all different types of habitats. The only place you will never find an owl is an Antarctica.

When the owls stand in the upright posture, it give them binocular vision. Owls can pinpoint where they prey is just by listing, they don't even have to see it. That's awesome. Owls have ear tufts that aren't actually ears. They are just feathers that can be used for camouflage, show the owls mood, and aggression.

An owls eyes are supported by (this may sound gross) bony eye sockets and cannot turn there head at all. So instead of having it easy they have to move their entire head just to look around. They can rotate there head about 270 degrees around, but cannot turn them all the way around.

An owl has three eye lids, which is very weird and cool at the same time. One is for blinking obviously, sleeping and the third one is to keep their eyes clean and healthy. A barn owl can eat up to 1,000 mice per year. Most farmers try to attract the barn owls so they keep the mice population down, which is a smart idea.

 

The Top Predator In The Ocean

Sharks are so awesome to me, they're so viscous and interest me so much. When I was younger I was obsessed with anything that had to do with sharks. Weather it was movies, shows about them, posters, stickers, and stuffed animals. All things to do with sharks. Sharks fascinate me, I have no idea why but they do. Even though I'm terrified of them and would be to scared to swim to far out into the ocean, I love them.

Shark have about 5 to seven gill splits that they breath out of. The scientific name for a shark is Selachimorpha. They can live anywhere from 20 – 30 years. Adult sharks can swim up to 8 km per hour. Sharks are known for killing anything in the ocean, also they are the top predator in the ocean waters.

Sharks are pretty good at keeping the food web really well balanced and healthy. They're pretty much at the top of the food chain in the ocean, anything below them they regulate the population of whatever it is they eat. There are way more than 465 species of sharks that we know of. That's crazy! Research shows that sharks are decreasing in population rapidly, which is effecting the ecosystem.

Sharks bones are made out of cartilage. It's a tissue that is a lot more flexible as well as lighter than bone. Sharks have two rows of razor sharp teeth. Shark lose their teeth quite a lot, but they always grow more back in.

A sharks skin is made up of scales. It acts almost like a skeleton, that way, the shark an move easier through the water. The scales also saves the shark energy while swimming though the ocean. The shark has a white belly and a darker top. That's because if a predator was looking down at the shark, his back would blend in with the dark ocean water. If a predator was looking up at a shark, he would still blend in the the sun shining through the ocean water.

Sharks can smell a drop of blood up to a mile away. Most kinds of sharks eat things like fish, crustaceans, marine mammals, even some other sharks, mollusks, plankton, krill.

 

 

All Diffferent Types Of Bears

Facts about Black Bears

1.       Black Bears mainly eat, berries, and insect larvae.

2.       They have very great senesce of smell, and colored vison.

3.       Surprisingly, Black Bears are shy and easily surprised.

4.       Black Bears are very curious animals, also very smart.

5.       When they go into hibernation they do not eat anything for a total of 7 Months.

6.       Black Bears can run up to 35 miles per hour, just like a giraffe!

7.       Black Bears can weigh up to 125 or 600 pounds!

8.       Girl Black Bears can give birth to up to 3 cubs.

 

 

 

 

Grizzly Bears

All Grizzly Bears are such amazing animals. Grizzly Bears love to eat fungi, roots, and sprouts. Three of their favorite things are fish, warm blooded animals, and insects. You can most certainly find a Grizzly in an ancient forest, or other types of dense forests. They love meadows and open land to live on, their habitat. Grizzly Bears are a top predator for sure. Grizzly’s love berries, so while they eat them seeds are obviously going to fall out at they’re walking, and when this happens they make a lot of plant life around the areas they eat the berries.

 

 

Brown Bear

                Brown Bears are usually found in Alaska, West Canada, Wyoming, and Montana. Small populations of Brown Bears are also found in Asia and Europe. Right now, Russia has a very healthy population of Brown Bears. Even though Brown Bears are called “Brown Bears” they can either b brown, black, and even blonde. They call some brown bears “Big Browns” which are found on the coast of Alaska and Russia. They are called this because they are the largest Brown Bears around the world. The Brown Bears that get up to 1500 pounds are very rare.

 



Polar Bears

                Polar Bears are right up there with the larger bears in the world. An adult male Polar Bear can weigh up to 1760 pounds!! A Polar Bears scientific name is Ursus Maritimus. Their specie group is Marine Mammals. Polar Bears are endangered. If the world were to ever end, Polar Bears would be the first to go because they are so used to cold climates. All this talk about global warming is putting every single Polar Bear in danger. Even the slightest climate change could put this species in danger. They hunt for mainly Seals.