Welcome to the Virtual Zoo!

1. Welcome to the Virtual Zoo!

2. Great White Shark • Scientists have opened a dead Great White Shark and found a whole four foot shark inside. • His adaptation is that he has jagged teeth to rip and tear meat. He eats crabs, shellfish, squid, sharks, fish, elephant seals, porpoises, dolphins, sea lions, sea otters, seals, birds, whales, and people. • Gray, black, white and has pointy teeth • Killing other animals and being a serious predator • Fish • Carchorodon carchaias Joey

3. Bruno Leopard • Panthera pardus • 2 feet tall • Catches its prey • There are 2 kinds of leopards • Its eyes reflect the moon • It weighs 100 pounds

4. Koala • Pha scolarctos cinereus • Mammal (marsupial) • Best known for eating Eucalyptus leaves and sleeping • Reddish-brown or gray, has big, fluffy ears, and a big nose with small eyes • Big ears good for hearing, good sense of smell, and special claws for grasping onto trees • Adult the size of a large bulldog • May live up to 20 years in the wild Victoria

5. Giraffe • Giraffa camelopardalis • Mammal • Best known for its long legs and neck • It’s white, tall, and has brown spots • My animal eats off humongous trees, drinks fresh water and kicks predators • Giraffe’s legs help it run faster • Giraffes can eat and drink at the same time • Giraffes can live up to 28 years Carson

6. Panda • Ailuropoda melanleuca • Have an extra thumb on paw to grip food • Lives for 30 years • Mammal • Best known for their strength • Weighs 200 pounds Giovanna

7. Black Panther • Panthera onca • Mammal • Is a great hunter and very sneaky • It has hair on its body and it feeds its milk to their young • It eats deer, rabbits, birds and monkeys • It runs really fast like a cheetah Alexa

8. Zebra • A zebra lives up to 20 years • A zebra runs very fast so its predators can not get it • My animal lives in Africa • My animal eats grass and apples and drinks fresh water • Zebras always know when a loin is hungry because it just stands there until it moves Alexa

9. Tiger Shark • Galeocerdo cuvier • Fish • Eating and killing • Gray, blue, brown, and white with stripes under its fins • Small pits containing electrical sensors which enable it to pick up even the tiniest muscle movement of its prey so it can locate its victim in the dark Dante

10. Toucan • Its scientific name is Ramphastos sulfuratos. • Its classification is bird. • They are best known for their colorful beaks. • Toucans have glossy black and yellow feathers & green, blue, orange, & red beaks. • Powder down keeps their feathers flexible and waterproof. • Their beaks are honeycombed with tiny air pockets and held together with bony rods so that their beaks are very light. Taylor

11. Emperor Penguin • Aptenodytes forsteri • Bird • Four feet • 95 to 100 pounds • The only penguin that lays one egg • Lives for 20 years Ty

12. Bobcat • Bobcats are mammals • Bobcats are best known for their tails • Most live to 15 years some have gotten to be 25 • Lives in Southern Canada, U.S., Mexico • Bites all victims in throat Erik

13. Raccoon • Procyon loter • Mammal • Tail • Black, gray, and brown • Teeth and claws open refrigerators and cabinets; can get a dime out of a shirt pocket; rip up dogs, cats, even people • Raccoons also growl and scream Celina

14. Poison Dart Frog • Amphibian • Dendrobates pulmillo • Making arrows for natives • Blue, green, black, red, • Poison eats plants and flies most time in trees • Scientists believe it has lived on Earth for 190 million years Ryan

15. BALD EAGLE • Its scientific is Haliaeetus leucocephalus • It’s a bird • It’s America’s symbol • It lives 25 to 30 years • It has a white head, yellow beak, and brown body • It weighs 8 to 14 pounds Jared

16. Giant Squid • Ark- I – Tooth • Best known for being immense • Mollusk • It has 10 immense tentacles, a rectanglular body, and a rhombus for a head • Has 10 tentacles to strangle prey for food, to make sure prey doesn’t get away, and to fight predators • Has a blade for its mouth to slice food and kill • No one has ever seen a healthy squid • Biggest Giant Squid found on the shore line is 55 ft. • Scientists don’t know how big a giant squid gets Kenny

17. Elf Owl • Miccathene whitney • Bird • Camouflage • Lives in cactus • As small as your hand • Eats mice Danielle

18. Sea Turtle • Lays 107 eggs • Lives 210 years • Reptile • Oldest reptile • Chelonia Mydas • Weighs 300 lbs • Live in oceans Lena

19. Chimpanzee • Pan troglodytes • Warmblooded • Known forswinging from vines • It is 4 feet tall • has short legs and big arms • Mammal Jake

20. Cheetah • Acinon yx jubatus • Mammal • Fastest land animal • It lives twelve to fourteen years • Lives in Grasslands of Asia or Eastern and Southern Africa • When it’s a baby, it has a Mohawk Gianna

21. Spider Monkey • Ateles geoffroyi • Mammal • Hanging from tail for long time • Black, white, brown, black and white • Lives by acting like a scavenger hunter to find fruit, leaves, and bugs • Can be twenty to forty pounds and lives 5 to ten years Matthew

22. Kangaroo • Marcropus Rufus • Marsupials • Lives in Australia • Jumps really high • Its color are red, tan, brown • Its baby stays in its mothers pouch • Jumps away from its enemy • Eats grass • Has really strong legs for jumping Ava

23. Lions • Panthera Leo • Mammal • It’s king of the jungle • Lions weigh 150-250 kilograms • lionesses weigh 80-150 kilograms • Dirty blonde • Sharp teeth to protect itself • Eats elephants • Can survive 5 days without water Ronak

24. Dolphin • Tursiops truncatas or Stenella longirostris • Mammal • Tricks • 20-40 years • Uses echolocation • Killer and Pilot whale are really dolphins Sarah

25. Thank You for Coming to the Virtual Zoo! Big, small, furry, scaly; Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mollusks, and Mammals; We’ve researched and learned so much, About all of our animals. Thank you for coming to our Virtual Zoo! We hope you’ve learned a lot too!