Recognizing Animals By Ms. Crawford WTR class Table of Contents Eels………………………….………1 Foxes……………………….………3 Koalas…………………….….…….5 Lions………………………………..7 Moose……………………………..9 Owls……………………………….11 Penguins…………………………13 Sharks…………………………….15 Tigers…………………..…………17 Whales……………………….…..19 Wolves……………………...……21 Animal Poetry…………….……23 Glossary…………………….…….30 About the Authors…………..31 Eels An Eel’s Café Eels eat a few types of food. On rare occasions, an eel will eat something besides fish. Conger eels also like to eat ’ By Eme octopus. If an eel can t find enough fish, it will eat falling palm fruit. If you get to close to a moray eel, it will bite you. Moray eels will also eat small squid and culefish. Eels can eat a lot of types of food. Looking at Eels Do you know what eels look like? I do. European and American eels can grow up to 3 or 4 feet but electric eels can grow to eight feet long. The biggest eel is a conger eel that can grow to 9 feet long. Conger eels can weigh up to 150 pounds. Moray eels have bad eyesight. Gulper eels have a pelican like mouth. There are about 600 kinds of eels. Moray eels can be orange, blue, green, yellow, white, brown, black, and gray. Eels look like snakes. An electric eel can knock over a standing horse and harm it. Eels have a weird shape. This is a eel about to catch a fish. t Eels by Kel Hey I Live Over Here Eel habitats are cool. Some electric eels live in the Amazon. Moray eels live in tropical and subtropical places. Conger eels, moray eels, gulper eels, and pike eels all live in fresh water areas. Some eels live in the Atlantic Northeast of the This is a electric eel Caribbean islands. Eels are cool creatures. Do you want to know everything interesting about eels? If a slime eel Waving Around gets slime on you, you Do you know what eels do in put a little water on it water? I do. Slime eels wriggle up your and peel it off. Some eels body and eat your innards. Eels move like snakes. Electric eels get electricity can go on land for a little from their organs by the abdomen. Some while. A baby eel takes eels can dive eleven thousand ive about 7 to 10 years to hundred feet. Electric eels can give off a This is a dragon moray eel 650volt shock! Conger eels will bite a grow to actual size. Eels skin diver’s inger. I love eels’ are great. movements. What Foxes Are Like Foxes If you want to know what foxes are like, By James Day Time To Eat! read this. Most foxes are either black, Do you know brown, red, white, blue-gray or tan. what foxes eat? Also, most foxes have pointed ears, I do. These cool long bushy tails & weigh 7 to 30 creatures feed pounds. Also, foxes have really good mainly on smelling & hearing. Plus foxes have 4 rabbits, birds, toes on each foot & dewclaws only on lizards, bugs, their front feet. By the way, the 4 main mice, fish & types of fox are red fox, kit fox, gray fox berries. Foxes & arcc fox. Foxes are super duper are awesome. cool! So, So, So, So, So, So, Sad Foxes have 3 predators. Their predators are people, eagles & bears. Eagles & bears hunt them for their meat, but people hunt them for their fur. I am very, very, very, very, very sad for the foxes. Above are the predators. Above is what foxes eat. Foxes by Emme Behavior Foxes behave in many different ways. Foxes mostly move through the shadows. They are nocturnal. When foxes are scared they show teeth. They also can loose baby teeth. Foxes leave the at 6 months old. Adult foxes live alone. Gray foxes can climb trees. Foxes are awesome animals! These are two young fennec foxes in the rocky mountains. Sily koalas Koalas do many different tings. Koalas are pregnant for up t a litle over a mont and have a baby every 1 or 2 years. Once tey leave teir moter’s pouch tey KOALAS never drink again because tey get teir watr fom by:Caitlin leaves. Aftr it is nine monts old, it starts t climb a lot. Koalas spend most of teir tme in tme in tees. Te koala curls up in a tee t nap. Koalas are NOCTURNAL wow! Tat means tey are actve at night and sleep at day. Tey scream like a baby when tey are scared. Koalas are amazing animals. This is a pic of a koala sleeping. Koala’s Restaurant Do you know what koalas eat? I DO! Koalas eat fom eucalyptus tees but te eucalyptus leaves are not very nutitous, so koalas sleep for up t 20 hours a day. I’m glad I get t eat more tan a koala! This is a cartoon pic of a koala eang human food. Koalas Dangers Koalas have a few dangers. I wil tl you about te predatrs for te babies. Te Koalas By Edie dangers for te babies are dogs, snakes, and large birds. Once milions of koalas got kiled for teir fr. Humans destoy teir habitat for twns and steets. Tese are a few of teir predatrs Koala Hotl Do you know where koalas live? I do. Koalas live in places where tere are plent of tees. Koalas live in Sout Austalia, new Sout Wales, Victria, Queensland. Tey mark te home Koala Hotl Koalas’ Looks Do you know where koalas Do you know what a koala looks like? I DO! live? I do. Koalas live in places Koalas have flat noses. Koalas are about as smal a litle where tere are plent of tees. Koalas live in Sout Austalia, dog. Teir fr is grey and whit. Koalas have long claws tat are sharp. Tey have rough pads. Teir arms are Koalas playing around together new Sout Wales, Victria, Queensland. Tey mark te almost as long as teir legs. Teir fr on teir chins has home tee so oter koalas wil whit spots. Koalas weigh 25 pounds. Teir height is 2 ½ ’ not go near it. I tink it s feet. Tey live up t 12 years of life. A moter koala keeps cool where tey oter koalas wil not go near its baby safe and warm. When koalas are born, tey have it. I tink it’s cool where tey no hair and are pink. When tey are 6 monts old, it live. climbs out of te pouch and stays for 6 monts. Baby koalas are caled joeys. Koalas have many intrestng features . By Curs Lions Good Looks Lions have good looks. Lions can have a mane. The lion’s mane makes the male Lion Buffet lion look bigger than it Do you know what a lion eats? I do. Lions love to eat lots of things but really is. It also protects most of all they like to eat oryx them in a ight. Lions an African antelope. They also like to eat . An oryx is have a tail with a fury Lions only have 2 predators. First is humans. 4 legged Humans destroy lionLion Hunters ’s habitat. Farmers are tip. Lions have big toes. animals, like a gazelle. A gazelle is an taking over lion’s land by building houses. Second, hyenas are their predator because they Lions also have 4 claws. African deer. They also eat bison. A Bison is an African buffalo. And if a lion is bother lions. Lions do not have very many Lions can have a black really hungry, It will eat fish and turtles. Lions will eat meat that is le behind. stripe down the middle predators. of their mane. Lions have 4 long teeth. Lions look so proud. By Casper Facts about Lions I think lions are fascinating creatures. More than 20 million years ago lions were saber tooth tigers. They changed over the years. Only the teeth and mane changed. The lion changed by their mane growing in and the spots fading away. Lions are awesome because they were saber tooth tigers!! p r e y t o Do you know were a lion lives, I do!!! In t h the past lions were found in different e places than Africa. The places they are o found now is only in Africa and a little bit t h in Asia. A LION can blend in with the e grass. They live in the desert and in the r d savanna. The only places a lion can hide is i in a tree or try to blend in with the grass. n I think lions are really cool animals! g s p o t . l i o n ’ s h i SO MANY THINGS ABOUT LOOK AT A MOOSE Moose are a big chunk of brown! They are about the same size as the biggest horse. Moose lose an antler every year and the antler grows every MOOSE! month. A moose is the biggest member of the deer family. Normal moose By:Ursula weigh up to 800 pounds, but they can still run almost silently. Moose colors are grey, tan, and brown. A bull moose can grow antlers up to 6 feet. Moose have beards called a bell; it is under their throat. Moose also have MUNCHIN’ LUNCHIN’ big backbones that camels and bison have. Moose front legs are a bit Moose are always looking for food. In the summer, longer than their back legs. Moose are mammals that are warm blooded. moose families munch on different kinds of plants.