Mrs. Luoma’s Class

1. Mrs. Luoma’s Class 6th grade Spring 2013

2. Gorillas BY Jose Spring 2013

3. Description • A male gorilla usually weight from 308lbs to 396lbs. • The gorillas are about 4ft or 5 ½ft tall. • The gorillas life span is estimated at 30-35 years in the wild. • The average life span is 35-45 years in the zoos with record being 54 years.

4. Diet • About Gorillas eat fruit, leaves and nuts. • 67 percent of their diet is fruit. • 17 percent is leaves seeds and stems. • 3 percent is termites and caterpillar. • Gorillas are not known to hunt monkeys and eat them.

5. Habitat • There are three kinds of gorillas. Western lowland gorillas, gorillas in the mountains, and gorillas in the forests, all three live in Africa.

6. Protection • They will protect themselves using their strength and strong teeth and jaws. A gorilla is a massive primate with short thick trunk and broad chest. Its ears and eyes appear to be small due to it large head. • They are endangered due to the lose of habitat and forests clearing. They also fall victim to hunting for the wildlife trade and through accidental snaring by poachers who are targeting them for meat. All four gorilla subspecies are classified endangered except for the Western lowland gorillas which are endangered.

7. Babies A females usually gives birth around every four years. Young are born through the years usually at night. Usually a single infant is born with twins being rare. There is a 40 precent mortality rate for new born which means that an adult females usually only has one surviving offspring produced every six to eight years. Therefore mature females will only have two to six offspring in a lifetime. Although the silverback is the troops guardian and can be the most aggressive troops member, it can also be patient and gentle with the young.

8. Interesting facts • Gorillas learn how to take care of their babies and they learn how to feed them.

9. Wolf By Noah Spring 2013

10. Description • Height 26-32inches • Length 4.5-6.5feet • Life span 7-8years in the wild. • The average weight of the North American wolf can be as little as 40 pounds or as high as 175 pounds.

11. Diet • The wolves diet of choice consists of deer, moose, caribou, elk, bison, musk-oxen and beaver. They have been known to survive on voles and mice if need be.

12. Habitat • Wolves have spread throughout the world, choosing temperate forests, hot deserts, mountains, freezing tundra, and green grasslands for their habitats. • Habitat of gray wolf, in general, can be found in places such as Mexico, Ethiopia, Arabian peninsula, Europe, Asia, Etc.

13. Protection • The U.S. fish and wildlife service is expected to take action early in 2013 to remove wolves from federal protection in the remaining states where they are still covered under the endangered species act.

14. Babies • Wolf pups are born in northern climates as late as early June and in southern climates as late as February. Their average litter size is 4 to 6 cubs. The cubs weigh approximately one pound at birth and cannot see or hear. Their fur color varies from gray tan and brown to pure white or black.

15. Interesting facts • Pack territories vary with location in the Alaskan or Canadian wilderness. The territory for one pack ranges from 300 to 1,000 square miles, while in the continental U.S. the territory is between 25 and 150 square miles. • A wolf in a hurry can go as fast as 35 miles per hour for short distances. • Wolves have 42 teeth.

16. Dolphins BY ALEX S Spring 2013

17. Description • Dolphins have a streamlined body with a large fin at the top. Dolphins usually weigh up to 400 to 550 pounds. They grow to be about nine feet long. Dolphins usually live for about 25 years.

18. Diet • Dolphins are carnivores, they eat fish. Bottle nose dolphins also eat shrimp and squid. Dolphins track their prey through the expert use of echolocation. They eat everyday. Dolphins hunt in groups called pods. Dolphins will chase fish swimming 25 miles per hour.

19. Habitat • They live in seas and oceans and they prefer 30.c

20. Protection • Sharks are one of dolphins enemies. Killer whales and humans are another one of their enemies. They are not protected. People hunt them for their meat.

21. Babies • After born small dolphins are nursed by their mother. They stay with their mom for 11 to 12 months and sometimes up to 5 years.

22. Interesting facts • Female dolphins are called cows andmales are called bulls. They have 100teeth. They can live up to 50 years. Dolphins may eat up to 30 pounds of fish a day. Dolphins can swim 5 to 12 kilometersper hour although they can reach up to 32 kilometers.

23. Hyena: By: Emily Spring 2013

24. Description: • The hyena weighs up to 75 pounds. • The hyena 31/2 feet tall. • Its life span is 12-25 years. • Although they are relatively small compared to some other African creatures. • Hyenas are the most common carnivore in Africa. • They can weigh between 90 and 190 pounds and stand 28 to 35 in. • The spotted hyena has a tan and brown coat with dark spots and a dark face.

25. Diet: • The hyena is a omnivore. • Hyenas have a wide diet range and are both hunters and scavengers. • In addition to scouring other predator’s meals, hyena will eat lizards, birds, snakes and insects but also have the ability to take down an antelope or wildebeest. • Because their jaws are so strong, hyenas have the ability to eat bones and hooves generally hyenas eat at night.

26. Habitat: • Spotted hyenas live in Africa and can range in habitats, from grasslands, savannas woodlands, deserts, forest and mountains. • They usually sleep in dens. The hyena can be found in Africa in the grassland living in a clan (between 100 hyenas) which have a leader called a matriarch. • They build a den for the cubs but they remain out side sleeping in a circle surrounding the den.

27. Protection: • While the hyena only has two predators lions and tigers and perhaps an adult hippo or rhino that is angry at the loss of a baby to their clan they can roam about their habitat. • They have been know to kill and consume humans oven the years. In some areas camping humans have been killed. • Humans have killed many hyenas over the years as well usually as a result of them killing their livestock or out of fear.

28. Babies: • A hyena will give birth to two or three babies after a gestation period of four months. • At birth the babies weight between two and three and half pounds. Their eyes are open and teeth fully grown in. • If two babies of the same sex are born the stronger of the two will kill the other one. • Once the babies are a month old the mother moves them in to the community den. • The males will stay with the clan until he is two years old then he will go off and join a clan and work his way up the hierarchy. • The females will stay in it clan they were born in.

29. Interesting facts - Ancient Egyptians domesticated the hyena and used it as a food source. - female hyenas tend to have three times as much test sterna their male hyenas.

30. Jaguars By Alex A. Spring 2013

31. Description • Jaguars weigh up to 100 to 250 lbs. • Jaguars are organ, tan, yellow and black. • Jaguars have spots and looks like a leopard, but jaguar are bigger than leopards.

32. Diet • Jaguars eat tapirs, sloths, monkeys, caimans deer, peccaries and capybaras. • Jaguars hunt by pouching on to their prey and biting the animals skull.

33. Habitat Jaguars live in the rainforest or grassland that’s located in South and Central America.

34. Protection • The jaguar uses its claws and teeth to protect its shelf. • It’s a protected animal. • There are only about 15,000 left in the world.

35. Babies • A baby jaguars are called cubs. • The cubs will stay with its mother for about two years. • The mother will raise her cubs in a fallen tree or a cave. • She feeds them milk for about two weeks. • She takes the cubs out when they are two to three weeks old.

36. Fun facts • Jaguars are good swimmers. • A jaguar may come in black. However, black is very rare in the wild. • Jaguars will climb trees to ambush prey or to mark their territory.

37. Tiger By Lacey Spring 2013

38. Description • Tigers coat is yellow to light orange with stripes, ranging from dark brown to black. The belly and the interior parts of the limbs are white and the tail is orange with black rings. • The female tiger measures 240 to 265 in from tip of nose to tip of tail.

39. Diet • The Tiger has been known to eat boar and small prey species such as porcupines, hares, peafowl play a very small part in their diet. They eat 5 time a week and they hunt 5 time a week too.

40. Habitat • Tigers once ranged widely across Asia from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia. • Tigers need water near by for hunting.

41. Protection • They are endangered because people kill the tigers for their coats. • They use their claws and their teeth and they pounce on their prey. • Tigers have good eyesight in the dark.

42. Babies • Most Bengal tiger females give birth about every 2 to 2.5 years between births is every three to four years. If a litter of newborns die a female can produce another litter. • At birth tiger cubs weigh about 7-8lbs. Tiger cubs are born on cushion of matted grass in a cave, a rocky crevice, hollow thee or in dense vegetation. The cubs are born with their eyes closed.

43. Babies • A mother tiger nurses her young for about thee to six months, the father does not assist in their up bringing.

44. Interesting facts • The average weight of a male is 221. 2 kg. A shoulder height of 109 cm. • Tigers were killed in 1967 that weighed 388.7kg. • Tiger live about eight to ten years in the wild but they can live up to twenty years in captivity.

45. Manatees By: Dominic 6th grade Spring 2013

46. Description • Manatees have a mass of 400 to 550 kilograms (880 to1,200 lb) and mean length of 2.8 to 3.0 meters (9.2 to 9.8 ft) with maxima of 3.6 meters (12ft and 1.775 kilograms (3,910lb) seen (the females tend to be larger @ heavier) when born. Baby manatees have an average mass of 30 kilograms (66 lb). They have a Large, flexible prehensile upper lip. They use the lip to gather food and eat as well as using it for social interactions and communications. Manatees have shorter snouts than their fellow sirens and the dugongs. Their small widely-spaced eyes have eyelids that close in a circular manner. The adults have no incisor or canine teeth just a set of cheek teeth which are not clearly differentiatad into molars and premolars

47. Diet • Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different plant species such as mangrove leaves, turtle grass and types of algae. Using its divided upper lip, an adult manatees will commonly eat up to 10% of its body weight (abut 50kg) per day manatees have been known to eat small amounts of fish from nets.

48. Habitat • Manatees in habits the shallow marshy coastal are as @ rivers of the Caribbean sea and the gulf of Mexico. West Indian manatees enjoy warmer waters and are known to congregate in shallow water and frequently migrate through brackish water. Water estuaries to fresh water springs they cannot survive below 15% (60of) their natural source for warmth during winter in warm spring-fed rivers.

49. Protection • Overall, predation does not present a significant threat to the survival of any manatee species . Threats, the main causes of death for the sea cow are human-related issues, such as habitat destruction and human objects and natural causes such as temperatures and disease. Their slow-moving curious nature coupled with dense coastal development has led to many violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships leading frequently to maiming disfigurement and even death.

50. Protection 2 • Manatees hear on a higher frequency than would be expected for such large marine animals. Many large boats emit very low frequencies which confuse the manatee and explain their lack of awareness around boats . Hurricanes ,cold stress ,red tide poisoning and variety of other maladies threaten manatees, but by far their greatest danger is from watercraft strikes , which account for about a quarter of Florida manatee deaths,” Manatees occasionally ingest fishing gear while feeding . These foreign materials do not appear to harm manatees, except for monofilament line or string which can clog a manatee’s digestive system and slowly kill it . Manatees can also be crushed in water control structures drown in pipes and culverts, and are occasionally killed by entanglement in fishing gear primarily crab pot float lines