Animals

What is the name of your animal? What does it look like? Other names for the animal? Where does the animal make its home? What does the animal eat? What are its predators (enemies) and why?

The [|Keel Billed Toucan](or also called Ramphastos Sulfuratus) lives in [|Columbia], [|Mexico], and [|Venezuela]. Their basic living is in a [|lowland rainforest]. It lives in holes in trees. The [|toucan] is a bird, it has blue feet, rainbow beak, red teeth to blend in with the tip of the beak, yellow head and belly, and it also has black feathers. It eats fruit, insects, and tree frogs. The toucans main predictors are humans, birds, [|weasels], [|snakes], and [|wild cats]. The predators get annoyed by the toucans huge beak. 

[|Squirrel Monkeys] have a really cool name in seven different languages. It is called the deaths head monkey. This monkey's head has longer hair then their body. Squirrel Monkey's backs are a yellowish-orange color. Their throat and ears are white. The monkeys shoulders are olive and their mouths are black. They live in Central and South America, Amazon, Costa Rica, and Panama they are found in canopy layer. They mostly eat fruit and insects then they also eat seeds, leaves, flowers, nuts, eggs and small vertebrates. Their predators are falcons, [|snakes] and big cats. They live in multi-male and multi-female groups up to 500 members. The [|Black Caiman] is a reptile in the alligator and crocodile family. Black Caiman's scientific name is melanosuchus niger. Black Caimans have black scales and a really light belly. There size is over 20 feet long and over 250 pounds. They have eighteen toes five on each foot in the front and four on each foot in the back. They do not change eye color like people and there nostrils in front of there jaw. They have no predators but there [|babies]do. When they have eggs animals like [|lizards] all the way to [|monkeys] love to eat there eggs. They will eat anything meat to mice to water buffalo. I think it's interesting that black caimans have three inches of bone separating there brain from the surface of there head.

JAGUAR The jaguar also know as panthera onca. The jaguar is a four foot to six foot long cat that's orange and has lots of black spots. The jaguar eats mammals, reptiles, birds and eggs. Jaguars live in caves and dens. Jaguars are endangered because of humans. Humans hunt them and they cut down trees and if they cut trees the jaguar has no where to live.

A leopard is also called a Panthera Pardus. They live in trees because thats where they eat. A leopard is a carnivore because it need a lot of protein saying it the fastest land mammal in the world. A leopards enemy's are crocodiles and lions because they steal the leopards food because it's tired after running to catch the prey and it's not as strong as the lion or crocodile. A leopard has spots like a giraffe. Leopards stay with each other only when they became mates. They can only have up to two cubs usually only one survives because other leopards and lions kill them when their very young. When the cubs are old enough to kill they take advantage of that and when they are hungry for food and they hunt and since their not fully trained they can kill themselfs.

The red eye tree frog is green with red/orange padded feet. It has a yellow and blue striped belly and big red eyes with black pupils. The red red eye tree frogs predators are some bats, birds, and snakes. The red eye tree frog live near water most of there life's. Red eye tree frogs live in south and central America.

 King cobra A King Cobra lives in the tropical rainforest, the tropical shrub forest, and the [|tropical grasslands] of India. The King Cobra is the largest venomous snake in the the world. All King Cobras can be all different colors like yellow,green,brown or black. It's neck ribs can flatten into a hood when the cobra is threatened the hood is this big flap of skin on the of the snakes head. It's jaws that open very wide to swallow large prey.The King Cobra is a carnivore which is a meat eater. It kills everything it eats and it mostly eat cold blooded animals including snakes.

Fossa

My animal is called the fossa or cryptoprocta ferox. It is a mammal that eats meat and lives in Madagascar. It is the most feared animal in Madagascar. The fossa are close relatives to the [|mongoose]. They can run alongside a [|cheetah] and climb like a squirrel. They are mostly active at night and when captive, they can live up to 20 years. Their fur is a blackish-brown and rounded ears that can hear their prey from over a mile away. They have keen eyes, and pale fur around them to fool their prey into thinking that they're part of the ground. They have dog-like noses. When they are in holes, they use their long whiskers and night vision to find food. Babies can't see and don't have teeth when they are born. The fossa have long retractable claws for climbing trees and killing prey.

  Leopard A leopard is also called a Panthera Pardus. They live in trees because thats where they eat. A leopard is a carnivore because it need a lot of protein saying it the fastest land mammal in the world. A leopards enemy's are crocodiles and lions because they steal the leopards food because it's tired after running to catch the prey and it's not as strong as the lion or crocodile. A leopard has spots like a giraffe. Leopards stay with each other only when they became mates. They can only have up to two cubs usually only one survives because other leopards and lions kill them when their very young. When the cubs are old enough to kill they take advantage of that and when they are hungry for food and they hunt and since their not fully trained they can kill themselfs. Leopards