Kangaroos

When an average adult jumps the long jump they usually get to seven feet. But an adult kangaroo can jump 25 feet. They have bouncy legs, they are long too. They can also run up to 35MPH. When they do kick boxing they get hit by those powerful those legs could break ribs but they have extra skin there to not make it hut that bad. They also use there arms to try to over power there opponent. The red kangaroos can jump 35ft far they are the farthest jumpers. The male red kangaroos are red but the females are blue, they have muscles in there pouch to let it open so the joey can go in and out. The first six months it stays in that warm cozy pouch then in three more months they come out little by little but it still stays by its momma to go inside its pouch when there is danger around. When there is danger around like a dingo or an eagle the male stomps his big foot, that is a warning to everyone to get away when they find water they lead the dingo into it and try to drown it then when it knows the kangaroo is stronger it doesn't come back for a while. The dingo has good stamina but the kangaroos are faster but have less stamina.

beavers

Beavers can change landscapes by building dams. They make ponds and lakes. The beavers lodges are very strong in fact they are so strong only the strongest animals in the forest could break them down. When the beavers make lodges there are secret passages that lead to a cozy warm place inside.The family stays there. It is hard for predators to get in there, the only predator that can try to get the little kids is the otter. The little kids of the beavers are also called kits. They build the lodge and the big dam by themselves and it s a home for a lot of creatures frogs, moose, and ducks stay in the lakes and ponds that the beavers make. They cut down the trees with there teeth there teeth are very strong. They have orange and white in there teeth the orange is stronger than the white stuff, their teeth get worn down when they cut down a tree but they never stop growing, if they didn't get worn down there teeth would be four feet long in about a year. They cut 200 trees in one year! They bake dams out of mud and twigs. If it was only sticks or only mud then the water would just break the dam.

Monarch butterfly

Milk weed is sometimes where you will find a monarch caterpillar. The monarch caterpillar is mostly yellow with black stripes. Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies that travel 3,000 miles. (They just come out of chrysalis and they fly 3,000 miles.) They fly to mexico. That is like us going around the world two times without any vehicles. When it is a caterpillar  is eats like crazy and then it goes in the chrysalis for ten days then it comes out and it is a butterfly it is a miracle. Its wings are shriveled up but after about ten minutes they are not shriveled up any more. They sometimes take breaks to drink and store nectar for the journey. When the go across this lake that is 1,000 miles and if they can find a boat they rest there. They weigh about one tissue so if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction then that is when the would take a break. If it was ever caught in a spider web the spider would never eat it because monarchs are poison for other animals that is why some butterflies look a lot like the monarch other predators will not eat is. After they get to mexico they lay eggs and die but there sons and daughters finish back home.(They only left home because it was going to be cold there soon. They go up in the trees for four months then they go lay eggs. It is a beautiful sight to see all of those monarchs hibernating in the trees, they all huddle up to keep warm.)

The Honey Badger of Africa

The Honey Badger is really tough. The Honey badger will stand up to lions, cheetahs, leopards, and the other animals in Africa. When Honey badgers like a home they stay there until they like another place more than that. The honey bee is also called the killer bee. The lion is scared of a swarm of honeybees and is scared of the honey badger. The honey bee takes the nectar from flowers with its tongue then saves it in its stomach. The honey guide birds finds a bee hive full of honey and calls a honey badger to come bash it down when he farts and gets all the bees away he takes the honey and shares it with the honey guide. (this is called a symbiotic relationship. The honey badger is a member of the weasel family and his cousin the skunk farts so he can fart as well.) The honey badger is the toughest animal of Africa. The honey badgers live in holes underground. The Honey badger can dig really fast with the claws as big as an adults finger he can dig so fast that in thirty seconds he can disappear.

Rhinos

 Rhinos are the third largest land animal. There horn is made out of keratin. That is what are nails and hair is made out of. There horn is a very good weapon.They are nearsighted.Oxpeckers hang out on the rhinos back they eat the ticks on the rhinos back.The oxpeckers get there meal and the rhino gets cleaned it is called a symbiotic relationship.(They scream when they sense danger.)They weigh 3,000 pounds the third heaviest land anmal in the world.

Lizards and the draco Lizard

Lizards all have something in common some swim, climb, They are scaly, and they have claws. But the draco Lizard can glide. They are born on the ground, there instinct is to climb to get away from predators. They start with there face down to glide. Then they jump and wings come out from there sides Muscles pull on the wings and it makes it easier to turn, when it lands it swoops up so it doesn't just crash into the tree.

Crocodiles

The Nile Crocodile of Africa is over twenty feet long. For her nest for the eggs she first digs with her hind legs. She has 64 sharp teeth she has twice as many teeth as us. Step two lay eggs, step three buried eggs. When the momma crocodile sees a predator she chases it away. A full grown hippopotamus can chomp a 12 foot crocodile in half! Th crocodile is cold blooded. If the eggs are  88-90 degrees they are all boys if it is colder or warmer than that they are girls. Turtles sometimes lay there eggs where the crocodile layed her eggs because she knows that the momma crocodile will protect them from predators. When the baby crocs are done hatching they call for momma and when momma hears them she takes them to the water. (she takes them in her mouth to the water. She takes the baby turtles too.) Before the eggs hatched she protected them for along time and does not eat or drink.   

Duck Billed Platypus

The duck Billed Platypus is a mammal and it lays eggs! Their eggs are as big as grapes. When they are under the water the can not see, smell, hear, touch, or taste. They have a sixth sense. They have tiny sensors on their beak almost like the sensors on are hand. They feel tiny electric charges from objects and sometimes avoid them unless they are crayfish.

Worms

Worms have 137 segments. They have no eyes no ears no nose just a mouth. They have a lot of slim that helps them make tunnels the the earth like the ants. They are very good for gardens because they make the soil softer from those tunnels they build. Worms do not drown under the water. They breathe through their skin. Sometimes worms come out of the ground to eat, but usually when it is dark because then it is cooler  and more like the underground. The cells in the worms skin sense when the sun is hot, They need to be wet

Walrus, Polarbear, and aardvark

Walrus rule the water while the polar bear rule the land. The Polar bear can run up to thirty miles per hour. It has the biggest legs of all the bears. The Walrus's back flippers make them move forward and the side flippers help steer. There is a sack on the top of there neck the other side that it fills up with air and they can stay afloat.

Aardvarks love termites and ants they have a huge tongue too. When they smell something they like they dig it up with there claws. They have amazing smell and good claws to dig with. After aardvarks dig a burrow  they leave an make another one when they leave other animals take those spots. Like wort hogs, hyenas and other animals. The aardvarks tongue is 12 inches long! each time it licks at termites or ants it picks up close to 100 of them. 

Sleep and sound

When you go to sleep your heart starts beating slower your muscles relax and you start breathing less. In the first stage you are not worried, second step you don't think well. It is good for the body to sleep 8 hours a night. After the 4th stage your eyes start moving quickly it is called REM it stands for Rapid Eye Movement. You can not sleep with your eyes open  because there are little muscles that close your eyes to relax. When the eyes close it is good for the brain and it keeps your eyes moist.

Sound is a kind of energy. When something vibrates it makes sound. Like you vocal cords.

Bees

Not all bees produce honey. There are thousands of species of bees but less the a dozen produce honey. The European honeybee is the most common. There are so many species of bees and they all share something similar. There are three parts of the honey bee, the head the thorax and the abdomen. In every average hive there are 30000 to 60000. A bee can not live without its colony. There are three kinds of bees in the nest the workers the queen and the drones. The drones don't do much. They fertilize the queens eggs and they can not sting and they can not feed them selves, at the end of summer the workers force the drones out of the nest and they die. The workers make up most of the population they are all female the only males are the drones.  The workers make the nest out of wax that comes out of secreting glands from the abdomen. The make the hex structures that honey pollen and eggs go into. They eat the pollen which gives them protein. The queen lays about 1500 eggs a day! The only thing she eats is royal jelly. She has a smooth stinger and she can sting as much as needed.  The worker bees sting to keep predators away from the nest, but after they sting they die.

Gem and mineral show

This is a picture of my last gem and mineral show these are the rocks i bought.
 This is a picture of my gold flakes below.

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These gold flakes are from Brazil 

It has to sharp things on the sides.

This is a shark tooth. I think it is awesome.

It looks grown what do you think?

This rock i think is grown. But it is still cool.

This is my copper tin. It is bended right now. It can bend because of the tin inside of it.

This is the copper flat.

This is an awesome rock, It is called Azurite. It is originally 45$ but i got it for 10$. 

This rock looks like silver. It is the same as the one on top originally 45$ but got it for 10$.

These are pictures of rocks that I got on the second gem an mineral show.

Sun and metamorphoses

The sun, never look directly at the sun even with sun glasses you could get blinded.

Fact a average American person eats 15 billion hot dogs, that is enough to almost circle the earth 15 times. The sun is a star not a planet.
The sun is the middle of the solar system.
Fact blue stars are the hottest, the red ones are cooler.
Are sun is about 93million miles away.

Metamorphoses. Is how a animal changes. The tadpole has four stages. First it breaks through the egg, second it grows its back legs, its third stage is its tail when it goes away, then it goes out of the water and it has a happy life.

The Moon and The Elevator

Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, he was on the moon on July 20 1969. His footprints are still on the moon. Meteorites sometimes don't know where they are going sometimes and they hit the moon, they are going so fast that sometimes they just break into tons of tiny little pieces, those meteorites make those craters. When you can not see the moon that means that it is in front of the earth. Then we see a little light and that is called a crescent moon. Next there is a quarter moon. Then when it is almost all seen it is called a gibbes moon. Then it is called a full moon when i is all the way seen.

Fact the hawk has the best vision. It can see a field mouse from almost 1000 feet high! 

Elevators have counterweight it pulls down and you go up. Elisha Graves Otis was the man who improved
 on the elevator. The elevator has guide rails that don't let the elevator go side to side. If you get stuck in an elevator the there is usually a phone and you can call for help. Do not try to climb out the roof of the elevator.