Sunday 23 June 2013

terrible tarantulas


today i am taking about the tarantula. to start off tarantula is a arachnid. an arachnid means it has eight legs. as you might know, all spiders are arachnids. the tarantula is probably one of the biggest spiders as well. the next part is about where the tarantulas live. the tarantulas are found in South America and some species in Mexico such as the red knee tarantula. the tarantulas habitats that they are in are usually are in deserts or scrub forests. the tarantula also burrows and lives in dens. and will not be seen in rocky mountain areas. as you might know their are many types of tarantulas. the one at the top (also the most common) is the red knee tarantula. the red knee tarantula is called this because of the orange red like bands every where across its body. this tarantula is also known (i don't know why ) for its hairy body. the red kneed tarantula scientific name is Brachypelma Smithi. the next part about is their diet. the tarantula is a carnivore. it feeds on mainly insects small mammals and small reptiles. the way the tarantula kills its prey is vile and disgusting. like the king cobra, the tarantula has a poisonous venom. but the taranulas venom has different symptoms. when the animal is stunned its insides slowly disolve into a liquid . the tarantula then would as you could say drink the animals insides out and then look for more prey. now that we have talked about what they eat, how about we talk about what eats them. allot of animals eat the tarantula. if the animal eats the tarantula without getting bitten it is fine because the tarantuls venom is only piosonous if it enters the animals blood stream. the next thing and last is just cool facts about the tarantula. to start of it is solitary meaning it does not live in groups of tarantula.they live 20 to 30 years grow slow they can run 18 miles per hour and finally can grow up to 4 to 7 inches. thank you for listening. please leave comments suggestions and spread the word. also if you have any questions please ask. the next animal is a mammoth. thank you for reading :). i will not be doing any more until it is school time or at the end of August.

Saturday 22 June 2013

cool king cobras


today i am talking about the king cobra. of course the king cobra is a cobra but there is allot more to the king cobra than that. to start of the king cobra is an reptile. a reptile is an animal that lays eggs,breaths air and have scaly skin. but before all of these the most important part of a reptile is that it is cold blooded. cold blooded means its body has adapted to the weather in its surrounded. you might know that our body temperature stays the same. no matter how hot or cold it is it stays warm. that is why mammals are called warm blooded. but a king cobras body temperature is always changing. this is confusing to explain so i will just give an example. if it was 32 degrees outside, the king cobras body temperature would change to 32 degrees. if it were 98 degrees outside the king cobras body temperature would change to 98 degrees. the next part is the king cobras is their diet. to start of with that, the king cobra is a carnivore which means it eats meat. to kill its prey, it uses a deadly venom to poison its prey. the snake will bite the animal with large fangs located in its mouth.when the snake bites the animal the venom from its fangs goes directly into the animals blood stream. in a few minutes, the king cobras venom paralyzes the animal. in a few minutes the animal is dead because the venom stopped the lungs and the heart so the animal died from lack of air. the next part is that the king cobra swallows its food whole. the jaw of the king cobra can expand. by this i mean it can open it wider the it is supposed to. its mouth is so wide it can eat a whole deer in one bite. literally. its mouth opens so wide that it fits the whole animal in its mouth, bones and all. the last part of eating is about digestion. the king cobra has special stomach acid that can dissolve the fur bones and meat on the animal it ate. the next part is about mating. the female king cobras are the only snake in the world to build a nest for its young. when the male and female mate the female lays 20 to 50 eggs every year the eggs will take 60 to 70 days to hatch but the female is very aggressive during this time and will protect the eggs all this time. as soon as the baby snakes or hatchlings are born they leave the nest and are on their own. the next part is shedding. when the king cobra grows (it never stops growing in all of its 20 years of life) its skin gets to small for it. the snake rubs on something and tears the skin off. the new layer of skin is right at the bottom of the dead skin which fits the cobra. there are only four more things to talk about. the first is evolution scientist have discovered that a snake has evolved from a type of lizard. the next thing is what things they can do though they have no legs. the king cobra can swim slither on land and even climb up trees. the third thing is where they live. they live in countries such as indonesia, Philippines Thailand Vietnam and Burma. the last thing is their size. they are born very small but can grow up to 5.7 meters. thank you for reading. please leave comments suggestions and spread the word. also if you have any questions i will answer them. thank you. the next one i will do is the tarantula. thank you for reading :).

Friday 21 June 2013

small syrian hamsters




today i m doing another type of hamster, the Syrian hamster is much larger than the Russian Dwarf hamster but about the same size as a small rat. to start of the Syrian hamster of course lives in Syria. but not just that the Syria as you know (or maybe not) that  Syria is full of deserts and is very hot. well, the Syrian hamster lives in deserts in the country of Syria. to survive the heat the Syrian hamsters make a little nest using things like  sand and other small objects. this cools them off from the shade. when you keep Syrian hamsters as pets if you give them sawdust and soft bedding they pouch it and make a cute but small nest. the next part is what they eat. when  they are feral they will eat nuts berries or anything they can find in or on the ground. the last thing is their flexibility.  a Syrian hamster is very flexible and if it were a human it could probably do the splits if it wanted to. that is all for today please leave comments suggestions and spread the word. next is king cobra, a kind of snake. thank you for reading :)

Wednesday 19 June 2013

ridiculous Russian Dwarf Hamsters




today i am talking about the Russian Dwarf Hamster. to start of the Russian dwarf hamster is a popular pet in many places. they do a lot  of cute stunts such as running on a hamster wheel and jumping off incredibly high things which you should never let them do. the Russian dwarf hamster is also so adorable. as you know from the name the Russian dwarf hamsters live in Russia. the thick and warm which protects the hamster during the winter. the interesting thing is that Russian hamsters hibernate like bears and skunks and other mammals. when the hamster hibernates instead of eating and fattening up before they just fill their pouches and eat whenever they get hungry during hibernation.  now lets talk about their pouches. the hamster has cheeks that it fills up with food so it can carry more than one thing at a time and people call these cheeks pouches. the interesting thing is that their cheeks expand and it is funny to see them when their pouches. my hamster is named cheeks because of this and he can fit about 36 cheerios in his mouth. the last thing is that the hamster eats berries and other wild things in its habitat. thank you for reading the next thing is the Syrian hamster thank you  :)

Tuesday 18 June 2013

trilobite




today i am doing a preistorich animal called the trilobite. to start of the trilobite is now extinct back 520 million year ago this animal was just beginning. the trilobite is an arthropod. an arthropod is an animal with an exoskeleton. an exoskeleton is the bones are on the outside of the animal instead of the inside. the trilobites eat worms plankton and even smaller trilobite they can get their hands on. another amazing thing is that the trilobite was around even before and dinosaurs. the trilobite lived in the ocean. the trilobite lived in every ocean from the Indian to the pacific. as you see the trilobites exoskeleton is very hard. the trilobite uses its exoskeleton  live Armour and uses it to be protected from the other dangerous creatures 520 million years ago. that is all for today. please leave comments suggestions and spread the world. and thank you :)

Tuesday 11 June 2013

ordinary ostrichs

 

 today i am writing about the ostrich. the ostriches a bird that lives on most of the continent of Africa. to start of the ostrich the ostrich is the fastest land bird in running. its legs are very long. so is it's neck. the ostrich has a very long neck that it uses to check out for predators. the next part is the ostriches brain. the ostrich is not a very bright or intelligent creature. its brain is smaller than its ridiculous small eye. the next part is that the eye is the part that does not help the ostrich. the eye is very small so it has bad eyesight and the ostrich is colorblind. the last thing is the ostrich eats plant and small invertebrates. that is all for now, please leave comments, suggestion,and spread the wore the next one is a trilobite. thank you for reading :)

Friday 7 June 2013

weird werewolf skinny pigs



today i m doing the werewolf skinny pig. to start of when the little baby skinny pig is born. it has lots of fur like normal Guinea pigs do  but as they get older, their fur falls out. next, the werewolf skinny pig eats what every skinny pig eats in the wild. GRASS! the next thing is that werewolf skinny pigs live in south America and live in other places but only as pets. the next part is that the werewolf skinny pig is a very popular pet. i do not know allot about werewolf skinny pigs so if you find anything wrong TELL ME. the next part is that the werewolf skinny pig lives in very hot places. this is why they live in dens. they use their sharp claws to dig huge dens which keep them cool in the warm/hot weather. the last part is that the werewolf skinny pig has very bad hearing. so if a predator is nearby, only if the werewolf skinny pig sees it in time will it escape and hide inside of its little den that it dug

Wednesday 5 June 2013

super sloths


today i am doing the sloth. the sloth to start of is nocturnal meaning it is asleep during the day and awake during night. a sloth is a mammal. the sloth eats leaves from trees. though it looks like they never come out of trees, they will climb down to the bottom still holding on to the tree bark and will have a drink of water. the next part is their claws. the sloths have huge claws that are bended and thick so they can just wrap themselves around the trees with their claws. the next part is their speed.the sloth is a very slow creature because it is meant to stay in trees. because of this when it climbs down it has a very high chance of getting hurt by a predator. the next part is about there baby's. the little baby's hold on to the mothers and usually lay  their others stomach.  the next part is their sleeping habits. the sloth is a very lazy creature and sleeps about 18 hours a day and also takes naps through the night. so it is only up for a couple of hours. the last part is that there are many kinds of sloths there is the ground sloth (lived in the prehistoric and is now extinct) and there are many but most are unknown the two most known is the three toed sloth and the pygmy three toed sloths. i hoped you liked reading. leave comments suggestions, and spread the word. tomorrow i am doing a werewolf skinny pig thank you :)

Tuesday 4 June 2013

awesome angora bunnies



    today i am writing about angora rabbits the angora bunny as you see does not look very much like a bunny at all. all you can see is its fur its nose an a bit of it's eyes so it is basically a big marshmallow. but actually it does look like a real rabbit. if you shave it. the angora bunny's fur never stops growing. it just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing. allot of people actually shave them to use their fur like farmers do with their sheep. people use the fur because it is very warm and they use it to make sweaters and other clothes. as you see the hair even grows on the ears. sometimes its so long you can't even see any of the ears at all. the next part is about what they eat. to be honest, the angora bunny WOULD eat grass if it lived in the wild. but these bunnys are not  found in the wild. they are domerstic. which mans they are only found in captivity. but as pets you can buy their food but also there are many types of fruits and vegetables it can eat.some as you know it can not. this is because the higher amounts of sugar in different ones. another reason is because of the oxolic. oxolic is something found in plants. if eaten in small amounts it is fine but if a rabbit consumes too much it can poison and kill them rabbit.also if you have a pet bunny DO NOT give it anything with starch in it.this can also poison it. the bad thing about all that hair is that it can cause furballs if a bunny swallows fur it can kill it. because its stoumach is so weak. this is a good reason to shave it. the last thing is the kinds of angora rabbits. their are English, french, giant, satin, German, Chinese, Swiss, Finnish, Korean and the saint Lucian bunny. i hope you like my blog. pleas leave comments suggestions and spread the word. also next Friday my blog about places will be here. i will give you the address once it is on the computer. thank you for reading :).

Monday 3 June 2013

outstanding otters



the otter is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to start of an otter is actually part of the weasel family. if you look at it it kind of does look like a swimming weasel. anyway the sea otter eats mussels clams and other mollusks under at the bottom of the sea. the otters collect mollusks, and rocks then swim back up to the surface and lay on their backs. the sea otters usually bangs on the mollusks shell to pry it open then the eat the squishy and gross inside. the next thing is as you know the sea otter lives in the sea. the next thing is about their children. the babies are very small but swim as soon as they are born (because they are born in the sea), the cute part about the baby sea otters is when they sleep. to make sure none of them float away when sleeping, the either wrap themselves in seaweed or hold each others hands that way they are all safe. as you see the sea otter has a very thick water proof fur coat. people used to and still illegally hunt otters for their pelts. usually otters will not defend themselves because they really can't so it is easy for poachers to hunt them. another thing is there really good sense of smell. they can smell things miles away which is good for it to smell its food/prey under water. the last thing is that the sea otter is very endangered and is rapidly becoming extinct. you must help the sea otters. thank you for reading leave comments suggestions and come back tomorrow i am doing the angora rabbit. also please check because soon i am making a new website about places on the planet and why you should go there. so to find good places to take a vacation, check on this website because soon i will write down the website to my other blog. thank you :).

Saturday 1 June 2013

curious chinchillas




the chinchilla is possibly he most lazy animal you will ever encounter. to start of chinchillas first came from the Andes mountains in South America. chinchillas eat nuts seeds berries and grass. the chinchilla is also an mammal. the chinchilla also has strange habits to protect itself kind of like a skunk. if the chinchilla is alarmed, it will spray urine at its predators. sometimes they also let their fur go loose. i don't know how it helps but apparently it does. the chinchillas main predators are owls fox and cougars. most people like to know what the scientific names for animals are so the chinchillas is chinchilla Lanigera. most people know you can keep chinchillas but there is a bit more of it you probably don't know. chinchillas were first kept in California because the people in South America brought them over. people in California  started to ship them to other places too. there are advantages and disadvantages about owning a chinchilla. the advantage are its life span, its weight its size, and its fur. the chinchillas life span is very long it lives up too ten to eighteen years.the next thing is it weighs almost nothing. the chinchilla only weighs 400g to 500g. the next thing is that they are tiny as a baby but can grow up to 25cm to 35cm. another thing is everyone likes the fur because it is thick and soft on their pet. the disadvantages are its speeds  and its weak body. if your chinchilla got out in a big area it would be hard to catch because it can run up to 15 miles per hour. the next thing is what people call floating ribs. the chinchillas rib cage is not fully connected to the skeleton. if you pick it up under on its stomach or if any pressure is put on the ribs can cave in and go right into vital organs and kill the chinchilla. thank you for reading. please leave comments suggestions and spread the word.and sorry for not doing them for the past week. thank you for reading :)