Animal echolocation

African Lions live in groups called prides. Lions are relatives of the cat family. They live in thick grasslands, open woodlands and other habits. These habits helps with hiding and hunting. Lions hunt antelope, baby elephants, zebras, wildebeest, and rhinos. Only adults lions are strong enough to kill elephants. Most of the time, lions don't like to hunt. They steal food from hyenas, leopards and other predators. Lioness are the ones who go out and hunt for the pride. Then it is the lion's…

In life, people give up. If they can’t find or do something they never do it again. They walk away with their head down and their tail between their legs thinking about what could have happend if they perserverd and kept trying. In the short story, “Attack” by Ralph Fletcher, a family’s group of roosters were attacked and went missing. The family made a plan and went on an adventrue to save there roosters. They perserverd and when they couldn’t find them at first they didn’t give up. They kept…

rattlesnake. Well this snake has the size that’ll cross your eyes, its heat sensing pit will make you throw a fit, it lives in places that’ll make you make strange faces. This snake has a maximum size of 7 ft. It also has precautions that can detect animals. They also hunt for homes. Do you know the actual body type/size of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. Well for one thing sure they are heavy bodied snakes. The common size of the snake is 3-5 feet long. Only few reach the size of 7 feet.…

The kangaroo rat is a rodent not a mammal people often get confused by its name they think it's in the kangaroo family. The kangaroo rat can jump up to nine feet, higher than any olympic high jumpers can jump that high. The kangaroo rat is in the animal kingdom and chordate phylum. The kangaroo rat has many predators for example bobcats, snakes, badgers, and your cat and dog as well. Kangaroo rats tend to live in underground burrows which is most of the time by a tree or bush. The kangaroo rat…

Talking with Jane Goodall Have you ever met your hero? I have. Recently, a fundraiser for the Jane Goodall Institute took place in Dana Point, California and was attended by biologists, environmental activists, and teachers from the ecological community. I met and spent time with my only living hero, Dr. Jane Goodall, the world famous primatologist who studied the chimpanzees of Africa for the last forty years. Dr. Goodall’s discoveries not only shed light on the inner world of chimps, but…

Animals in the phylum Platyhelminthes, widely known as flatworms, were the first to develop bilateral symmetry, triploblasty, and cephalization. Bilateral symmetry means that an animal's left and right side of their body are mirror images of each other. Cephalization is the development of nervous tissues becoming concentrated towards the anterior end of an animal. Triploblasty means that an organism has three tissue layers, an ectoderm (outer layer), mesoderm (middle layer), and an endoderm…

make things easier on themselves. In her fable, the problem humans bring upon themselves is caused by using pesticides and herbicides to make crop growing easier. Trying to make things easier caused many problems with the life of the vegetation, the animals, and even with the humans. The vegetation, once so beautiful, turned to nothing by the use of the pesticides and herbicides; "Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers, {is a delight to} the traveler's eye…

From the time I can remember I always had a strong curiosity for animals how they work, how to take care of them, and how to fix them when they were sick. Because of this curiosity; if you would have asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up it was a typical little girl answer I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to learn how to take care of my puppies, when they didn't feel good. As I got older and joined 4-H, I quickly realized that there is more than just puppies out there to spark my…

million animals are being tested with products to help cure an illness, or are helping to better the life of humans. If these products work, then it is a success, but if they do not work it hurts the animal’s and it puts them in danger. Many may say it is a good thing because the products are being tested before handing them to a human. Animal testing is that it is wrong and dangerous and especially for the safety of medications for human consumption. Many researchers think that the animals’ and…

milestones, which were, I could talk at the age of two. I could walk about the age two, and I learned how to prepare my own food at seven. I realized how detached we were from our natural world, we are humans which are mammals, that are defined as animals who nurse off their mothers. We cling to our families when most mammals, including foxes, leave their families at an extremely young age, only at seven months old. I miss the feel of warm covers and my mother’s arms around me when I was…