Marsupial

There are few better vacation destinations than the beautiful Country of Australia. With its white sandy beaches and blue water calling and the vast culture to experience there is no reason not to go. Unless you are scared of some of the deadliest spiders, snakes, and sharks in the world along with many other venomous or creepy crawly things. The continent and country of Australia is huge and has a very interesting history and by far very different from any other country in the world. The food…

There are many theories in the scientific world. Most are supported by evidence and are accepted as fact in the scientific community. Creationism is the belief that life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being. Evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. Creationism has been tested in the scientific community and it can’t be tested to prove or disprove its accuracy. With Evolution its been tested and…

Anteaters are edentates. Edentate animals do not have teeth. Anteaters eat around 30,000 ants and terminates a day, ripping open anthills and termite mounds with its long, sharp claws. Its tongue is 2 feet long with tiny, sticky hooks. To avoid the pain of bites and stings, anteaters eat quickly by flicking their tongues around 150 times a minute. They also lick fruit that has fallen on the ground. Anteaters living in zoos have a different diet. A zoo in Germany offers their anteaters a mix of…

seasonally induced torpor and reproductive periods. Both of these events are usually initiated through a predictable environmental factor, primarily photoperiod. These two systems are usually mutually exclusive, but in Sminthopsis macroura, an Australian marsupial that reproduces in the winter, they can overlap since females with torpor being used during pregnancy. This study looked at the impact of reproductive hormones on torpor in the Sminthopsis macroura. 10 males and 10 females aged 1-2…

mice and lizards. The bilby holds record for the fastest reproducing mammal. After mating, the female is able to reproduce with a gestation period of only twelve to fourteen days, usually having litters of around one to three joeys. Like all marsupials, baby bilbys are borne blind, hairless, and must blindly feel their way into the mother’s pouch, which opens…

mammals, birds and reptiles evolved to include some very large animals; this group of megafauna was most widespread during the last Quaternary Period, in the last 2.5 million years. The megafaunas in Australia were very unique; and included giant marsupials such as the Diprotodon, huge flightless birds like the Genyornis, and giant reptiles such us the Varanus or ‘megalania’. About their extinction many theories were made by many scientist. There are three main theories: the “kill”, the “chill”…

Australia has a vast range of foods and cuisines, expanding and evolving since the first fleet arrived in 1788, from then on many other migrants from different ethnic groups have settled in Australia, this has resulted in increased food availability as each group has introduced, grown and prepared their own native foods from their homeland. Australia is recognized as one of the most multicultural countries in the world and the food component is heavily responsible for that reputation. The first…

Due to the wide variety of plants and animals throughout the world, and their similarities and differences is what proves evolution, according to Chapter 4: The Geography of Life, the biogeography can only be explained by evolution of all the, “diversity of life on continents and islands,” (Coyne, 2009, p. 109). Even though, this idea of evolution is different than previous chapters; must be remembered, that Jerry Coyne is explaining the whole theory, so they are all connected and part of the…

reproduction because it can’t use asexual reproduction. “The red kangaroo is wildly found in the Australian Outback” (University of Utah, Reproductive Strategies). It is also found in zoos around the world. “The red kangaroo is the largest living marsupial in the world” (University of Utah, Reproductive Strategies) . It is brown and looks like an oversized rabbit. Coincidently, as well as looking like a rabbit, it also can jump very far too. “It can jump up to 12 feet in one jump and run up to…

William Atkins The Koala The koala bear is a marsupial .it length runs about 33 inches long. It has a fuzzy coat of fur, huge ears, and it doesn't really have a tail. they are known for their small yellow, beady eyes. In most species the females weigh more than the male but not koalas The females weigh between 13.2 and 24.2 lbs., while the male weigh between 17.6 and 30.8 lbs. The koala thick fur is used to help keep it cool and but also warm. Their fur also acts like a rain repellent . The…