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Information Report: Water Dragons by Amiri

The Water Dragon

by Amiri

My animal is a water dragon. A water dragon is a reptile because it hatches from an egg and it has scales and it doesn’t need it mother’s help.

As you can see a water dragon is green. A full grown water dragon weighs only 1 kilogram, and its length is zero point nine meters long! A water dragons height is about 5 inches long. It also has a third eye for sensing when it is day or night.

Crickets, mealworms and worms are perfect for a water dragon to eat. Little pieces of fruit and veggies will make a water dragon big and strong. Any insect or small fish will do just fine. 

The Chinese water dragon is found in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and in southern China.

During the mating season males have a bright red mark on their chest. It is common for a male water dragon to have significantly large injuries. Once the male is found, he mates with all the females in his territory. After mating the female digs a hole in the soft sand near the riverbank where she lays fifteen to  twenty five eggs. Then she abandons the eggs. Depending on the temperature they can that up to three months to hatch are mini replicas of their parents and are totally independent from birth.

I think water dragons should be kept in captivity because water dragons habitat is being destroyed by us humans. So we should at least do something nice to it. Even though water dragons are not endangered it’s habitat is being destroyed.

Information Report: Elephants by Shohei

The elephant a mammal because it drinks its mothers milk, breathes air, is warm blooded, has hair and can communicate with other elephants. 

The elephant has grey hairy skin. It can grow from 2.5 to 4 meters tall and weigh up to[2,268 to 6,350 kilograms. An elephant has four legs, one head, two tusks and a trunk. The tusks are useful because elephants can use them attack to their predators, or to get food.

Elephants are known as herbivores because they only eat plants.The elephant's diet is grasses, leaves, bamboo and roots. It's also known to eat crops like bananas and sugarcane. An adult elephant can eat an enormous amount of food a day (eats around 150kg). African elephants have a long trunk that lets it reach high trees to get food. Another adaptation is it uses it’s tusks to dig dirt and get roots to eat. Elephant's predators are lions, jaguars and leopards but this only if they’re unlucky. Carnivores especially target the smaller baby calves. 

The habitat of elephants include tropical islands and parts of Africa,  Asia and India.There are three types of elephant: the Samatran elephant, Asian elephant and Indian elephant.

Elephants can live up to 60 years in the wild. Females are called cows and male elephants are called bulls. A baby is called a calf. The female elephant gives birth at 22 months old. A female elephant doesn’t have tusks but bulls do. It takes 10 years before they make another baby.  

The Asian elephant is endangered because they are getting hunted by humans. Humans only hunt the bull [male] because they have tusks and females don’t have tusks. In the wild they don’t get much food. I believe that elephants should be kept in the zoo because they can do breeding programmes to make more babies.The number of  elephants would increase. If an elephant was kept in captivity the zookeepers would need to make a big cage and give it toys like toys to play with, food and water and other elephants for company. The elephant needs to be like a wild elephant.

Information Report: Polar Bears by Sanglok

Polar bears are mammals because they have a back bone, are warm blooded, drink milk as babies, communicate and have fur.

Polar bears have transparent see through fur but it looks like white fur because of the snow. The skin under the fur is black. the polar bear is camouflaged in the snow because their transparent reflects light it even has fur on it soles of it feet to keep it warm. Polar bears have 4 legs, a tail like a bunny, 2eyes and 2 ears. They can weigh up to 680 kg. They have 42 teeth and a strong jaw to eat. The polar bear can have a height of up to 2.5m.

Brown bears  and polar bears  are the world ‘s largest land meat eaters. .the pray of the polar is fish , seals, walruses ,beluga whales, birds, birds eggs, the bowhead whale and vegetation. The Adult Polar Bear’s Predators are humans. The cub’s predators are wolves and other carnivores. In a year polar bear has to eat around 72 seals to survive. Most polar bears sleep for seven to eight hours in a day. Polar bears hunt at day time. All polar bears have an excellent sense of smell to find seals 1.6km away.

Countries like Alaska, the Arctic,Canada, Russia and Greenland are homes for the polar bears. Habitat for polar bears is icy areas. In winter days are short and nights are very long. In mid winter days the sun does not rise at all.

20-30 years is how long a polar bear usually live for. The baby polar bears are called cubs, cubs live with their mother for 18 -30 months. Polar bear cubs are born live. 2 tiny cubs are born at the same time.

The longest known living polar bear in the world is 45 years old.  Polar bears can survive for 8 months with out food. The scientific name for polar bears are urus maritmimas, Polar Bears can reach speeds up to 40 kph (25mph) on land and 10kph in water

Polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct. They are shot for their skin and also their habitat is melting because of climate change. I think that Polar bears should be kept in the zoo because they have more places to play and breeding programmes so they can have more babies. Polar bears needs in captivity are Red Cylinders, a pumpkin for halloween and an easter bunny for easter.

by Sanglok Thank you bye 

Information Report: Cheetahs by Rishap

Cheetahs

by Rishap

The cheetah is a mammal because it has a back bone, is warm blooded, drinks milk as a baby, has fur and communicates.

Belonging to the cat family, cheetahs have 4 legs, paws, whiskers, sharp teeth and a long tail to help them balance. Their black, white and yellow spotted fur helps camouflage  them when they’re hunting. They are very fast running. Cheetahs can run up to 113 km per hour and get up to that speed in 3 seconds. The weight of a cheetah is 21-72 kg (adult) and height is 90 cm (adult) at the shoulder).

 

Cheetahs are carnivores. They eat large eagles, lions, hyenas, rabbits and other meat including gazelles, wild bears, impalas and smaller hoofed animals. They like to hunt in groups, knock their prey to the ground and kill it with a suffocating. They must eat quickly before they lose the kills to other bigger, more aggressive carnivores.

Cheetahs are found in the African savannah (grassy areas). They live amongst trees, long thick grass, dry dirt and rocks. Its habitat is really sunny and warm. 

Cheetahs live  for 10- 12 years. They have 2-4 cubs at a time. Cubs cannot see when they are born so they only survive because their mother takes care of them. Cheetah cubs live with their mother for around 1 and a half years.

Cheetahs are in endangered because humans are building houses on their land and are killing them for their fur. They should be kept in captivity so they don't die out. In a zoo, cheetahs would need to hunt and play with toys to stop them from getting bored. They like to be in groups so they would have to have to live with other cheetahs.