5.+Animal+Life

= Animal Life =

The requirements for this are:
==1. Choose THREE animals that I DON'T KNOW ABOUT. Don't choose zebras, lions, and tigers. It is absolutely NECESSARY that you EDUCATE ME on animals that I don't know. If you are uncertain about your choices, have your __communicator__ ask me.==

3. Write a paragraph about EACH animal indicating the following:

 * ==Include information about the animals themselves. Educate me about characteristics of this animal, especially if there are unusual features.==
 * ==__Why__ the temperature allows this animal to live in this ecosystem. You and the climatologist will need to exchange information. (Explain often uses the word "because".)==
 * ==__Why__ the precipitation allows this animal to live in this ecosystem.==
 * ==Try to find a relationship between this animal and plants in this ecosystem.==

==4. Be sure that you mention the ADAPTATION(S) that this animal uses to survive in this ecosystem, e.g. The skua eats fish as the main item on its diet. Rather than fishing for itself, it robs other birds of their food or will actually attack other birds and eat them. Skua also feed on carrion, dead organisms. It has earned the name "pirate" because of these adaptations. == (http://www.antarctica.org.nz/04-biology/index.html) == 5. In your paragraph for each animal also __include__: size, color, range(how far it moves across a region from season to season), an average of how many young are raised each season, diet, does it have the same amount of food available year round or does it fluctuate, habitat ( Does it live in a cave or under a rock and WHY.), is it involved in a symbiotic relationship, what predators does it have, how it feeds its young and for how long, is it cold-blooded or warm-blooded, and any other important characteristic that is meaningful. ==