Eurycea rathbuni otherwise known as Texas Blind Salamanders are incredible creatures that do not get their fair share of attention compared to animals such as cheetahs and lions. Specifically, they are only known to reside within the dark water filled caves of Edward’s Aquifer in Hays County, Texas.5 Thus, this species was discovered by the San Marcos National Fishery, which is now known as Texas State University.5,6 In 1967, Eurycea Rathbuni was listed as an endangered species, and within ten years it was entered into a breeding program at the San Marcos Fish Hatchery.3,6 The Texas Blind Salamander is a Eukaryotic organism that belongs to the Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Amphibia; Order: Caudata; and Family: Plethodontidae.5 All members of the Class Amphillia contain a vertebrate and four legs.7 Animals within this classification must also lay their eggs in water otherwise they will die…
It is a tertiary consumer, eating mostly mice, bugs, and smaller birds. The females are much larger then the males. It’s scientific name is Buteo Solitarius. It is currently under Near Threatened on the conservation status chart, because there are about 2500 of them in the wild. It is a K-strategist, just like nearly all birds.…
They are carnivores and considered opportunistic feeders, finding food in the water and on land. Mink consist on diets of frogs, fish, small turtles, snails, crabs, rats and mice, squirrels, muskrats, chipmunks, waterfowl, birds and rabbits. They especially like to dine on bird…
Which Food Does the Plasmodial SlimeMold, Physarum sp. Prefer to Eat. Introduction: Physarum polycephalum is a slime mold that inhabits shady, cool,moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. Like slime molds in general, it issensitive to light; in particular, light can repel the slime mold and be a factor intriggering spore growth.…
The giant known as Polyphemus was considered to be a cyclops, meaning he had one eye in the middle of his forehead. The cyclopses, like Polyphemus, were known to be giants that lived in south western caves and mountains of Sicily with their families. This group was also known to have eaten human beings. Due to them eating human beings is why Polyphemus became known. Polyphemus became known because while he was in south western Sicily Odysseus, as well as his companions, encountered Polyphemus.…
Scientific Name: Aptenodytes Forsteri Common Name: Emperor Penguin Did you know the Emperor Penguin is one of the only species of penguin that live in Antarctica, Or that it is the biggest penguin in the world? Well, If not I will tell you about the Emperor Penguin’s physical characteristics, eating habits, its habitat, and much more. The Emperor Penguin lives in the open ice of Antarctica. Wind chills can be as cold as -76 degrees Fahrenheit.…
After being lifted from the plate and placed in the mouth, the poor pizza goes on a long journey through the digestive system and eventually is turned into waste after passing through the 6 primary organs of the digestive tract: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus. The process of digestion starts when Bob the pizza is placed in the mouth. The main structures of the mouth are the teeth, tongue, salivary duct and oesophagus. Bob is killed, being chewed on by the teeth, enclosed in a dark area where he can’t escape.…
As they approached the beach, they saw the purple flags and no swimming signs. They asked the lifeguard why the purple fag was up, and the lifeguard said one word, “jellyfish.” Jellyfish can paralyze and kill other small animals, and sometimes they kill humans. Most jellyfish are transparent and have very long tentacles. These are good qualities for a predator.…
Have you guys ever wondered,how it would be to have a class pet. Well I have decided three pets that would make your class be adored by its presence. I think that pets such as snakes,lizards or any other animals will cause to much of trouble. I have chosen crabs,turtles,and rabbits. I believe that these animals will have not much of work and can be non dangerous to our environment.…
It measures about 1 to 2 inches (3 to 5 centimeters) in length, and has a pale body covered with colorful, elongated, fleshy spines called cerata, which help with respiration by increasing the surface area on the upper part of the animal's body. C. peregrina was previously known to feed on hydroid polyps, but the study authors discovered that the nudibranchs preferred polyps that had just eaten. In experiments, when presented with a colony of polyps that had just fed and a colony that was "empty," the sea slugs ate twice as many of the polyps that were full of zooplankton. In fact, kleptopredation provides the nudibranchs with enough plankton to account for about half of their diet, overturning previous claims that polyps were the nudibranchs' primary food source, according to the study.…
The weddell seal eats mostly squid and fish (Sasso). The crabeater seal only eats krill (Sasso). The leopard seal preys on penguins and other small seals (Sasso). The ross seal is very rare to find, but they eat squid and fish and have no known predators (Sasso). The skua is a bird that can be classified as a tertiary and a secondary consumer since it eats dead carcasses and penguin chicks (Winter).…
The Racer is a very fast snake. It can move at almost 13km/hr. In some places Racers will hibernate in groups of as large as 100, but in others they will hibernate in groups of 10-15. They hibernate below the frost line in rock formations during the Winter.…
Axolotls Axolotls, Ambystoma mexicanum, are aquatic, neotenic salamanders that are a close relative of the tiger salamander and are often referred to as Mexican salamanders or Mexican walking fish (Clare, 1999). They are exclusively found in the lake complex of Xochimilco near Mexico City. Axolotls are small amphibians that only grow nine to 12 inches in length and 2.11 to eight ounces in weight; relatively, they are about the size of a tea cup (“Mexican Axolotl,” 2015). Though they can be captured and cared for as exotic pets, Mexican Salamanders are gradually becoming extinct and are considered “critically endangered” according to the IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species (Zambrano, 2010). Axolotls…
To capture their prey by using sticky cells, called colloblasts. In some species there are cilia in the mouth that allows them to “bite” gelatinous prey. While most of these swim there is a group that creeps along the sea floor. Most of these animals are bioluminescent, meaning they have the ability to give off…
Osmoregulation in Cyclograpsus and Plagusia crab species Hartzer, A.M, 19971613, First year BSc student, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Abstract Osmoregulatory processes within two crab species are investigated in this practical. The Plagusia, an infratidal species, and Cyclograosus, an intertidal species, are investigated to determine which is an osmoregulator and which is an osmoconformer. The haemolymph was extracted after allowing the species to acclimatize to varying concentrations of seawater. The comparative melting-point technique was used in the experiment where capillary tubes were used to collect samples of the seawater and blood, then frozen and put into an alcohol bath.…