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Animal Diversity… to the EXTREME!

Animal Diversity… to the EXTREME!. Objective. Let’s get excited about animal diversity! Extremes and Limits Greatest! Strangest! Most dangerous! Biggest, smallest, most colourful!. Your Task. Work with a partner

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Animal Diversity… to the EXTREME!

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  1. Animal Diversity…to the EXTREME!

  2. Objective • Let’s get excited about animal diversity! • Extremes and Limits • Greatest! Strangest! • Most dangerous! • Biggest, smallest, most colourful!

  3. Your Task • Work with a partner • Take one of the invertebrate phyla or Chordata classes and highlight the EXTREMES and LIMITS of that phyla! • Lottery for your choice of phyla

  4. EXTREMES and LIMITS • Highlight the… • Biggest • Smallest • Most dangerous (to…?) • Most colourful • Grossest? Most Beautiful? • … your choice!...

  5. EXTREMES and LIMITS • This is for FUN! • We are establishing the limits of reality and thus establishing a “scale” to measure with

  6. Example – Phylum Mollusca • The largest… • The giant squid!!! Architeuthis • Can grow up to 13m (43 ft) in length… or 18m? • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjp_jumlO3A • The colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni • Can grow up to 12-14m… or 20m?

  7. Phylum Mollusca • Smallest? • Snail: Ammonicera rota • 0.02 inches in length! • 50 of them end to end would measure 1 inch • Not it…. But still small ->

  8. Phylum Mollusca • Most beautiful? • Sea Slugs! (Nudibranchs) • Dendronotus diversicolor • Dall’s denodrotid (Dendronotus dalli) • Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

  9. Phylum Mollusca • Watch for lies! • http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

  10. Phylum Mollusca • Smallest? Ugliest? • You get the idea…

  11. Animal Diversity to the EXTREME! • What is our criteria? • Powerpoint Slides – pictures! Less writing. Show, don’t tell. • Content – extremes, accurate, not too much • Speaking – clear, slow, articulate, multitone • Length – 2 min max • References – say where you got stuff

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