Spirit Animals

Spirit Animals is this book that tells you about these four kids that summon Great Beasts. The kids names are Conor, Meilien, Rollan, and Abeke. They are on the Greencloak's side. They are on a mission to get the four Talismans before the Devourer can get them. The Devourer are these people that are riding on top of there Spirit Animals. The other bad guys are the Conquerors. They have Devin Trunswick and Zerrif on there side.




My favorite parts of the story's are in book two. I like when Conor, Meilen, Rollan, and Abeke fight against Devin Trunswick. He bonded with this panther because he did not get a spirit animal at the ceremony. He pretends to be the legend of the north with the panther but actually Finn is.





 

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.