Animals: Deer and antelope
Numbers of species (deer): over 100
Number of species (antelope): Exactly 135
Diet (deer): Any plants they can reach
Diet (antelope): Mostly any plant they can reach, but some species eat insects, small mammals, and birds
Range (deer): Anywhere on earth other than Antarctica and Australia
Range (antelope): Throughout Africa and the Rocky Mountain region
Other differences: Antelope's horns are hollow, deer's antlers branch off, and deer shed antlers (so do prong horn antelopes)
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Blobfish
Animal: Blob fish
Overshadowed by: Puffer fish
Endangered status: Endangered
Size: Up to 1 foot long
Diet: Unknown
Habitat: 2000 to 4000 feet below sea level, off the coasts of Australia, Tasmania, and Papa New Guinea.
Facts: Have no skeleton, exoskeleton,or muscles, in fact it's way of surviving
down there is by using the water to support its frame.
Blob fish out of water |
Blob fish in water |
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Elephant Shrew
Animal: Elephant Shrew
Scientific name: Rhynchocyon Cirnei
Size: 9 to 12 inches, up to 1.5 lbs
Classification: Mammal
Endangered Status: Near endangered
Habitat: Anywhere in the Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
Diet: Ants, termites, beetles, spiders, millipedes, and worms
Closest Relatives: Elephants and antelopes
Facts: They live in couples in a range of several acres. Although they rarely see each other they track each other's whereabouts through scent, and They live 2 to 4 years.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Tasmanian Devils
Animal: Tasmanian Devils
Overshadowed by: Kangaroos (because they both live in Australia).
Endangered status: Endangered
Classification: Mammal/marsupial
Size: 20 to 31 inches tall and 9 to 26 lbs
Diet: Any thing they can find but mostly small animals.
Habitat: Forests in Tasmania (a large island in Australia) mostly by rivers.
Closest relative: Quolls
Scientific name: Sarcophilus harrisii
Predators: large quolls and large birds of prey.
AKA: T-devil
Facts: T-devils ears will turn red when excited or threatened, they see moving objects better than still ones, T-devils used to range all throughout Australia, until settlers brought dingoes.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Chinese Water Deer
Animal: Chinese water deer
Overshadowed by: Musk deer
Scientific name: Hydropotes Inermis
Diet: herbs, grasses, and sedges
Endangered status: endangered
Closest relative: Korean Water Deer
Size: 26.42 to 40.72 lbs, 55 cm tall
Habitat: swamp lands and grasslands
Classification: mammal
Hunting strategy: doesn't hunt
Predators: tigers and wolves in Asia, no natural predators in Britain or France
Facts: Good swimmers, can give birth to 6 to 8 fawns, rarest deer in Britain, only deer species without antlers.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Okapi
Animal: Okapi
Over shadowed by: zebra
Over shadowed by: zebra
Closest relative: Giraffe
Scientific name: Okapi johnstoni
Size: 2.5 meters long and 1.65 meters tall to the shoulder
Diet: leaves, fruit, seeds, ferns, and fungi
Endangered status: Endangered
Classification: mammal
Predators: Leopards, and servals.
Hunting strategy: Eats plants.
Habitat: mountain rain forests of central Africa.
AKA: Forest Giraffe, forest zebra, and African unicorn.
Facts: Can lick ears (inside and out), live up to 30 years, Okapi eat up to 100 different types of plants, and is the symbol of the Congo.
Size: 2.5 meters long and 1.65 meters tall to the shoulder
Diet: leaves, fruit, seeds, ferns, and fungi
Endangered status: Endangered
Classification: mammal
Predators: Leopards, and servals.
Hunting strategy: Eats plants.
Habitat: mountain rain forests of central Africa.
AKA: Forest Giraffe, forest zebra, and African unicorn.
Facts: Can lick ears (inside and out), live up to 30 years, Okapi eat up to 100 different types of plants, and is the symbol of the Congo.
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