The Olm is sometimes called a "human fish". In one legend people thought they had seen a baby Dragon, now wonder they thought that with the dark red gills that would resemble wings. The Olm is also surrounded by Cave Fish, Cave Crayfish, Cave Crickets, Cave Spiders, and many more strange and crazy alien looking animals.
This strange looking animal is called a Cave Salamander, or for short, the Olm. It looks like something from an alien planet, but it is from Earth. It lives in Europe in the caves of the Dinaric Alps, and in water flows underground. The Olms body is snakelike growing up to 8 to 12 in long. Some specimens grow to a length of 16 in! They have lost there eyes over time because it is so dark. They also have no pigment (Pigment is the color in the skin) so there completely white. They keep some of the features from when they were babies like there gills. In fact, they do almost everything underwater. They eat, sleep, and breed underwater!
The Olm is sometimes called a "human fish". In one legend people thought they had seen a baby Dragon, now wonder they thought that with the dark red gills that would resemble wings. The Olm is also surrounded by Cave Fish, Cave Crayfish, Cave Crickets, Cave Spiders, and many more strange and crazy alien looking animals.
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The Mudskipper is a fish that can live out of water, and in the Indian, and Pacific Ocean. Living in brackish(Brackish water is a mixer of salt water, and fresh water) mangrove swamps, and mudflats. They grow to be 8in long, and there diet includes insects and small fish. The Mudskippers skin is an olive brown, often with bluish markings, but if you see one you will see it blink, it's eyes resemble a frogs.
The mudskipper doesn't have any special organs that help it breath on land, instead they adsorb air throw there skin and gill chamber, but they need to keep there skin wet that way they can breath on land. The mudskipper lives in the shape of a U like tunnel. Male Mudskippers keep the females eggs in a pocket of air on the opposite side of the tunnel. For the next 6 to 7 weeks he will bring the eggs air until they hatch. The camel is an amazing inhabitant of the desert. They have a life span of 40 to 50 years. A camel can weigh between 660 lbs. to 1600 lbs. A full grown camel stands 6 feet 1 inches tall at it's shoulder. It can be up to 7 feet 1 inches tall at the top of the hump. They can have one or two humps.
A Dulla is an inflatable sac like organ in the throat of male camels that can be brought up out of their mouth. It flops on the side of their face. If you ever saw it, you might think it was a tongue. They do this to show dominance or to attract a mate. This looks like your normal pet shop ferret, but it's actually the vary rare Black footed ferret. Another name for the black footed ferret is american polecats, and also prairie dog hunter. Black footed ferrets are around 15 to 20 inches. 90% of a ferrets diet is prairie dogs witch is not actually a dog, it's actually a rodent.
Many people love black footed ferrets, but they are one of the most endangered mammal in america with only 750 left in the wild. This lovely ferret must be protected so that they are sine for along time. The Atlantic Goliath Grouper is a large salt water fish that lives in the Florida Keys, most of the Bahamas, and practically the entire coast of Brazil. Sometimes, they are caught in New England off the coast of Maine and Massachusetts. Atlantic Goliath Groupers can grow up to 4.87 meters (19 feet), and weigh around 790 pounds. With the size and weight of the Goliath Grouper, they will attack an 11 foot lemon shark. They will also attack divers too. They only eat crustaceans, octopi, smaller fish, young sea turtles, small sharks, and barracudas.
This beautiful animal is on the endangered species list. The reason this has happened is because of over fishing. Today, this graceful fish is protected all over the world. The US started protecting them in 1990, and the Caribbean started protecting them three years later, in 1993. We can keep the Atlantic Goliath Grouper around for many years to come. These amazing fish need to keep their numbers up in South America since this is where they are most populated. We need to try to keep people from taking them from there natural habitat and selling them for money. They are used for food and a delicacy near Brazil. I want to keep them healthy, so we can see them swimming in the sea for many many years to come. Bigfoot is said to be a giant ape who lives in the woods of North America. In descriptions people have told about Bigfoot, he is 2-3 meters tall, and is said to be 500 pounds, and is covered in dark brown, or reddish hair.
For hundreds of years, Bigfoot has been seen roaming through the forest. In some Native American legends they have told stories about coming up from the water and seeing when a giant wildman who threw rocks at them. We don't know what it was, but some people think it was Bigfoot. Years later, in 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin said that on October 20th they had gotten actual footage of Sasquatch or Bigfoot! The picture above is part of the video that was taken in 1967. Over the past 100 years there have been more then 400 sightings! There are many theories about what Bigfoot is. I'm going to tell you a few, There's one that Bigfoot isn't a ape, but some form of prehistoric man. Another, is that Bigfoot is just a person trying to become famous. If you have any theories or stories, please write to me on my comments page and all comment back to you! The lock ness monster is a giant lake monster that lives in the Lake Loch Ness in Scotland. The Loch Ness Monster has been seen all over the lake since the 1800s. It all started in 1807 when a man was walking on the beach and he saw splashing in the water. When a large head and long neck came out of the water and then in a instant it diapered under the dark water. Then in 1910 this pichere was taken.
Many people believe in the Loch Ness Monster, but many believe that the Loch Ness Monster was really a log or wave, and not an animal. What do you think? The Praying Mantis is the best insect hunter in north america. The mantis is in colors like pink, red, brown, green, and dark green. The mantis lives in gardens, and bushes eating a wide variate of insects like moths, afeds, and even the females eat the smaller males. When a female mantis has eggs, she pots them into a egg cases. When it hatches 200 baby mantises crale out. Ones they hatch there on there own.
The platypus is one of the most endangered mammals in the world! All humans have 5 senses, but the platypus has a 6th sense and that sense is called electro sensory. This is when an animal can detect small electric charges that everything gives off when a platypus is hunting for crayfish. Some people think the platypus is cute, but on one foot theirs a poisonous claw that it uses to fight with other male platypus. The reason platypus fight with each other is for territory, which is when an animal fights an opponent for space.
The Horseshoe Crab can grow up to 2 feet, 60 cm long. The horseshoe crab has been on the earth for 2 million years! Unlike regular crabs that have red blood, the horseshoe crab has blue blood instead of red. Horseshoe crabs can live at depths of up to 100 ft down, and they feed on small animals in the mud and sand. The female horseshoe crab can lay 300 eggs, and it takes 9 to 12 years to grow to adulthood.
The reason why I chose to write about the Horseshoe Crab is that it is useful for humans and I worry that it could become an endangered species. This animal needs to be protected. Humans are one of it's only predators. We use the blue blood to get rid of bacteria in medicines. |
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