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Title: Amazing Animals


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Amazing Animals
Completed by Mr. Lilleys Class
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Ferocious Cats
  • The lion is a cat with long brown, gold hair.
  • Male lions usually will grow a mane.
  • The lion species is mostly found in Savannah
    Africa.
  • This big kitty is a carnivore so it feeds on
    meat.
  • Zebras are its main prey.
  • Lions do not have any predator except humans.
  • The female lion cleans its cub by licking it with
    her tongue.
  • When the cub is young the female guards the cub.
  • Cubs nurse moms rich milk.

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Stripes on the Run
  • Zebras live in certain places in Africa.
  • Zebras have black and white stripes, and may
    have yellow, gray, brown, or may have
    buff-colored stripes.

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  • Lions are zebras worst enemy, as well, jackals,
    wild dogs, and hyenas are their enemies, too.
  • The mother zebra feeds its foal (baby zebra)
    milk, and licks it until the foal is clean.
  • Zebras only eat grass, shrubs, and herbs.

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Feirce Kitty Cat
  • Tigers mainly live in rain forests, jungles, and
    the plains.
  • Tigers are carnivores, so they eat all meat
    such as wild pigs, rhinos, elephant calves and
    elk.
  • Tigers only have one predator, a human.

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  • Tigers have white tummies, jet black stripes,
    orange coats, small ears, yellow eyes, long
    whiskers, and rubbery pads.
  • They cubs drink their mothers milk when they
    are young, and when they are still young their
    mother bathes them, their mother also teaches
    them how to hunt.

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Black And White Wonders
  • A pandas habitat is in the bamboo forests in
    Central China.
  • It nurses its cubs.
  • They are very bear like.
  • It has excellent hearing.
  • Poor eyesight.
  • Pandas dont like meeting each other.

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  • 99 of their diet is bamboo.
  • Their digestive system isnt very efficient.
  • They spend 10-16 hours eating each day.
  • Pandas eat about 10-15 kg. each day.
  • Sometimes Panda eats vines and wild roots.

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The Exciting Elephant!
  • Elephants are found in Africa and Asia.
  • Elephants spend 16 hours a day eating. By the
    time they reach 60 years old theyve spent 40
    years eating.
  • A full grown male can look straight down through
    a basketball net
  • They spend 16 hours a day eating.

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More facts about Elephants!
  • 90 of an elephants diet is grass.
  • It eats fruits and plants.
  • Young elephants are called calf.
  • Calfs predators are lions and tigers.
  • Elephants have one predator humans
  • Their habitats are savannahs and the rainforest.

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The Tallest of the tall,Giraffes
  • The tallest animal on Earth.
  • They grow up to 17 feet tall.
  • The Giraffe has 7 bones in its neck, just like
    humans.
  • Giraffes can have up to 5 horns.
  • When a giraffe eats, their food goes to the first
    part of their stomach. Then they burp it up and
    chew it again. Its called cud.

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The tallest of the tall, Giraffes
  • The male giraffe is called a bull, the female is
    a cow and the baby is a calf.
  • Giraffes can run up to 35 miles per hour.
  • They are herbivores (plant eaters).
  • The giraffes only predator is a lion.
  • There are 9 different types of giraffes,
    Reticulated, Masai, Baringo (Rothschilds),
    Nigerian and Cape Giraffes are some of them.
  • Giraffes are mammals, which means they feed their
    babies milk from their bodies
  • When a giraffe is born, it has to fall 7 feet.

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Rough Rhinos
  • Rhinos habitat is in the plains and rainforest.
  • They bath in mud to keep cool.
  • Rhinos are herbivores.
  • Horn is made of hair and can grow back.
  • White and black rhinos have no teeth.
  • It is one of the rarest animals in the world.
  • Predators are tigers, lions, hyenas, and
    crocodiles.

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Tough Rhinos
  • Bad eye sight and good sense of smell.
  • Skin is a suit of amour.
  • Can gallop as fast as 25 miles per hour.
  • Very good swimmers.
  • A baby rhinoceros is called a calf.
  • Calfs stick close to its mom during years 1-3 of
    life.

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Great Gorillas
Most Gorillas live in central Africa. The
Gorillas family usually have to 5 to 10
members. Gorillas are the biggest primate
known. The Mountain Gorilla is the largest and
rarest of the gorillas. It is dark in
color. Their habitat is in the jungle. The
Mountain Gorillas have more hair than Lowland
Gorillas.
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Young Gorillas are always on their mothers
side. A new born baby usually weighs 4 to 5
pounds. Gorillas are herbivores. They mainly eat
twigs, leaves, bark,and grasses. Gorillas get a
lot of water from the plants they eat. They
usually eat thirty pounds of food a day.
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Happy Hippos!
  • Hippos live Africa's grasslands, rivers and
    lakes.
  • Birds and fish eat the algae and bugs off the
    hippos back.
  • There only two surviving hippo species left.
  • The hippos stay in water areas because the sun
    peels their skin.
  • Hippos nibble on water plants during the day.
    and eat during the night.

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Happy Hippos
  • Hippos are herbivores so they only eat plants.
  • Their favorite food is marsh grass and can eat up
    to 88 pounds a night.
  • A female hippo is called a cow, its baby is
    called a calf, and the male is called a bull.
  • The cow and calf sleep together and float
    together in the water.

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Fast Cheetahs
  • Cheetahs have small heads and a thin muscular
    body.
  • Cheetahs have long strong legs.
  • They live in grasslands and savannas.
  • They are carnivores they eat rabbits, game
    birds,and sometimes antelopes.
  • She gives birth to one litter of four to five
    cubs.
  • She hides them in tall grass.

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Fast Cheetahs
  • Cheetahs have small heads and a thin muscular
    body.
  • Cheetahs have long strong legs.
  • They live in grasslands and savannas.
  • They are carnivores they eat rabbits, game
    birds,and sometimes antelopes.
  • She gives birth to one litter of four to five
    cubs.
  • She hides them in tall grass.

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  • When the cub is 6 weeks old the mother teaches
    the cub how to hunt.
  • When 18 months old the mother leaves her cubs to
    live on their own.
  • Their predators are lions and hyenas.

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