Bird nests

So I learned about bird nests from a video I watched. The first bird is called a Humming bird. It makes it's nest by getting fine silk to shape into a little nest and then it gets spider silk to bring it all together. The second one is my favorite it is a bird, oh I forgot it's name but it is awesome it makes it's nest out of mud and grass. It bakes it so it divides it into two parts and they leave a little opening at the ending and then you go threw there and you get to the eggs. It is very smart. The other one is called a cowbird. It lays it's eggs into other birds nests and they let the other birds take care of their eggs. Sometimes the eggs get thrown out but sometimes they actually raise them. Then there is another bird which I forgot its name but it makes its nest on the harbor and out off big twigs and then they have to keep predators off. They have to keep predators off because sometimes they are two lazy. 

Lions

A lion sleeps around 18 hrs a day! The lion is the top land predator in the African savannah. A lion dad takes good care of his sons and daughters. He has very long mane but not the longest the Muskrat and the yak are tied for third longest in the hair contest. The horse is second the longest measured hair was 18 ft! But the longest hair is the human if a woman grew her hair it is the longest, its been measured to 18 ft 5 inches. Out of the thirty six kinds of wild cats the lions have the biggest family. One really strange thing is that the male lion pees backwards, male dogs pee by lifting their legs up and the male wildcat pees backwards.                                                                   

Humming Birds

The humming bird hovers to drink nectar. Most birds just fly forwards but the humming bird even flies backwards. They can fly like this because their wings flap in figure eights. Their wings flap 100 times per second! There are 356 species of humming birds 51 of those birds are endangered. Regularly the birds have wing bones shaped as an arm but the humming bird has a wing bone shaped like a hand. It has to drink every ten minutes to stay in the air hovering. When it sleeps it sort of  hibernates it gets cold enough to get hypothermia it lays on its back and looks as if it is dead, this is called Torpor.

Giraffes

Giraffes have the longest necks in the world. Their necks are 7 ft long, they are the tallest animal in the world. The new born giraffe is taller than 6 ft.The new born giraffe is bigger than a new born human baby and can walk for 15 minutes and a new born human baby can't even walk he can only crawl.  The baby giraffe stays with its mother for one year then it goes on its own. It takes four years to grow into a full adult. It can grow 18 feet tall. It has seven neck bones in it's neck just like your neck only that they are much longer. It takes some effort to pump the blood up its long neck so its heart is huge and it has special blood vessels to help the blood not to fall back down.

The Basilisk lizard

Basilisk lizards can run on water! It looks a little like a dinosaur. When something scares it, it sprints across the water and find's safety. It almost runs 5 mph! The back feet are bigger than the front, it also runs on the back ones. It has flaps of skin between the toes and has fringes on the bottom of the feet, this helps it walk on water. When it hits the water with his foot it creates an air bubble, the air bubble pops but its foot is already gone and the other foot is hitting the water. It can not run on the water for long it has to take a break soon.

Octopuses

Octopuses can make there arms stretch very far, they are also very smart. They use Jetpropulsion to move quickly, this is how it works. Water goes into his head and then into a tube, the tube has muscles on the top of it the muscles quickly squirt the water back threw the tube on the back and then it goes forward. It goes around 25 mph. You know that black inky substance, it has chemicals in it and they are poisonous to him and his predators that are trying to eat it, so it goes away quickly using jetpropulsion and he doesn't get poisoned. If one of its arms gets bitten off then it will grow back in about a month. It is so awesome hoe it changes color with its background in seconds like the chameleons.

Walrus and Giant Pacific Octopus

Walrus have a weird face. I will tell you why it is so weird. They use those tusks to slide on the muddy sea, they use those whiskers to break through the ground and they also use those big lips to spit and help break through the ground and find clams, and all of that fat keeps it warm in the freezing cold water. The baby can't find food when it is so young so the mother shares its food with its baby.

The giant pacific octopus loves clams as well. The giant pacific octopus's tentacles are each 30 ft long that is as long as a fire truck.  It would take the strength of ten people to take of the grip of a giant pacific octopus! It eats clams it would not eat you. When it eats the clam it first needs to break it open right. So it starts with using its tentacles to break it open then uses its beak to eat the good part. The walrus slurps it open and then eats it. They are kind of different but they both eat clams.

When a pearl is formed it usually gets a paracite inside of it then the icky goey stuff hardens and then in a few years you have got a pearl.

Fireflies

Fireflies glow from the tummy and look like a sunflower shell. When light is given off by living animals it is called bioluminescense. When they blink they talk but we don't know what they are saying it is a secret code. Even know fireflies are called fireflies there are actually beetles. It starts out like an egg then it turns into a glowworm then they turn into a firefly. It glows for defense it tries to say to the predators like toads that he or she is poisonous then the predator does not like it so it goes away. Only two weeks a year do they blink and mate and have babies. The females stay on the ground and the males are in the air, when the female like what she sees she blinks back and the male goes with the female. The males synchronize their blinking.  luciferase lucifiraine and oxygen make light.

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. 

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.

Hot and Cold

Do you know why your teeth chatter when you are cold? Its because are body tries to keep it 98.6 degrees. When your body gets colder than that, your brain gives a message to your muscles to start shivering so it will warm up and your teeth start chattering. 

When you your body is too hot, then your brain tells your skin to start sweating. The sweat cools us off in two ways:

1) It Evaporates and carries the water that got heated from your body and it takes away the heat.

2) When you sweat and the wind starts blowing the sweat it acts like an air conditioner.

When you sweat you lose water so you should keep drinking since our bodies are 60 percent water.