Current event 2 " African Wild Dog"

29/09/10

African Wild Dog

Association team of Science Daily

(More info was on Honoluluzoo.org)

Once you travel the Sahara desert with a joy, you see oasis and other natural organisms adapting its habitats and needs. As you pass the sand hill, you just see 5-20 wild dogs trying to roar at you. When the whole trip is disaster, you get to study about these wild dogs. According to informations, the African wild dog is very sensitive about its surrounding, food, and predators against them.

Dogs are medium sized such as domestic dogs, they are part of the canidae (biotic family, consists of wolves, foxes, dogs etc). Its rounded cute ears you see are very pretty but when you see its first appearance its mistakable, they have black forehead and a thin and slender legs. The forehead reminds me of hyena, the winner of the biggest forehead in the canidae family. With its 40 inch tail, they can do whatever they want. They weigh max 66, males are a bit bigger and stout than the females however you can determine as the same size.

They are savanna inhabitants which has a range from Sahrara desert except the forests, they are very sensitive so they are extremely carnivorous, consume no plant food, sometimes consume carrion or return to kill. (Lives in a biome name is Lycaon pictus), the animals hunch up or as in a pack they move, it can go up to 60 animals. They are wolves in Africa, efficient predators, can run up to 35 m.p.h, they usually live beyond in the wild for 9-10 years. 3500-5000 are the estimation of the dog animals in Africa. Only dominant males and females reproduce, babies grow for approximately for 70 days before the mother gives birth in an underground den. As many as 12 pups may be born , majorities of those being male, but only a few usually survive. Pups at birth are all black and white. The tan patches develop from the black areas beginning in the second month. The pups eyes open at 3 weeks, but they will not emerge from the den until they start to eat solid food fed by the adults.

According to my opinion, I don't think there is an another initial or name for this kind of creature/animal, although being African Wild Dog is a bit strange, the African Wild Dog is one of the strongest predators in the region Africa. It is a shame that bits of Wild dogs are gone due to difficult conservation, but it is good to know that about 5000 dogs remain and need vast home ranges.

Bibilography:

http://www.honoluluzoo.org/african_hunting_dog.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/african_wild_dog.htm

Antarctic Presentation

Mr. Watts's Presentation...

Mr. Watts gave us a clear and interesting information about the antarctic, and the lives that organisms have to go through. His presentation gave us a physical information (such as Ellissa supporting with wings) which rounds up all the works we did. The organisms in Antarctica usually have a certain habitat they need to adapt in order to live there. In some seasons, they migrate due to severe weathers, the animals travel north and south for example earthworms. One of the reasons they need to migrate is because of nutritions. The animals prepare the nutritions and some of them bring the foods to antarctic (mostly all). Basically they look for a good weather, good timing, and safest place to reproduce. Various weather can depend on any mammal, or others in the antarctic. As always, in antartic there are composers, producers etc, which our class made for food web/chain.

• What adaptations did the animals exhibit in the polar region? (For example: body shape, appendages, wing span, food, coloration, stream-lined bodies, teeth, beaks, blubber, fur, group formations, hooks on tentacles, etc...) In antarctic (example) "emperor penguins" spend up to 80% in water. "They have streamlined, torpedo-shaped bodies for speedy swimming; and to heighten that streamlining, Emperor penguins keep their heads hunched into their shoulders while swimming under water."
• What various (breeding) mating rituals do species have?
• The animals need to come to antarctic to breed in their spot (I mean the place where it is suitable for all of them to breed) Antarctic is where penguins migrate to come here.
• How did this presentation provide examples of what we have been studying?
• He mentioned more about needs of adaption in animals, and interaction among all of them. It particularly gave more information about the biome that I was actually trying to learn about.
• What are you wondering about now? I hope there can be a information a bit more about the biome/location of the place.
• How did Mr. Watts help tie in everything that we have been discussing during this unit? Since I'm not likely to present the ecosystem project on Antarctica, I don't really have connections however he explained the word " interaction" among the animals which gave me a thought, that antarctic animals need to interact usually to be sustain.

Current Event- Pea sized frog

Tiny creature makes an impact to the world.

As the ecosystem maintains, and the animals from each kingdom maintains their living, there is a pea sized frog which is hardly to discover called the “Gold Frog" or in Brazilian "Psyllophryne Didactyla." It dwells at Southern island of Asia located at Boreano Island, constituted as the smallest creature in the whole world. It is surrounded by pitcher plants in health forest. The “About 9.8 mm” frog amphibian is one of the species called microhylid. As the parents lay their eggs along the plant, the little ones grow in safety of the water inside the pitcher. These amphibians are the most threatened animals which should be conserved by others. The olive sized frogs (Microhyla nepenthicola) were investigated and discovered on the edge or a trail which lead to the peak of MT. Gunung Serapi. The newfound species was addressed after the plant on which it depends to live (Nepenthes ampullaria), a familiar species in Boreano Island. The organism plant contains globular pitcher and grows in damp & forests.

Mini Frogs set its eggs on the edges of the pitcher; tadpoles develop in liquids piled up inside the organism plant. Since the creatures are tiny, it is proved that searching for them won't be a great idea, as time goes by in Boreano Island, the amphibians sing their catchy tone “Amphibian symphony." The crawly sounds can go for hours without a stop... Amphibians, especially the main character of the article “frog” provides important functions to people such as halting disease or damages that spreads from insects or helping us to keep up the healthy fresh water systems.

In the future, I hope scientists can transmit these engaging resources to us, and once again I hope the research taking in 20 countries on five continents can support scientists to understand the current “amphibian extinction crisis.”

Bibiliography: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825094915.htm

Animal Adaptions

Survival

The video explains the adaptions needed for certain animals to survive, as we watched the video called " Survival" ,I've noticed that some animals have to adapt to some circumstances that are freezing to deaths or some which are overheated.

Some particular places on Earth contain a lot of plants and organisms but other places have very little water and few plants.
"More than 99 percent of Antarctica is covered with ice but a few plants still grow there, mostly lichens, mosses, and algae. Antarctica is very cold."

What I learned from this video:
Is that, each one of them have their own adaptions to survive, such as hiding in their shells, communicating with camoflouge, and perseverance deceit for Fox. Best of all, animals hunt with their 5 senses.

What was interesting:
I knew how smart can the animals be when they need nutritions, they can cooperate with same types of animals to catch an other animal. I got to know more about porcupine's adaptions to wild, " Porci" is easily recognized by its most notable feature—its quills. The quills danger the oponents, when " Porci" gets threanten by others, it can spread it quills to protect itself from danger.

The video which will be above this texts, it shows the importance of adaptions, with its catching music...

Some will need others inorder to protect, although doesn't contain great features or scene , I can still understand what the video is trying to say.

Biotics factors in environments

Environments around us (humans) and others, they provide homes, foods, and also resources that we can reliey continously.
Organisms can interact by develop or in other words grow, they can probably reproduce or excrete wastes.
First comes the organism, after that the population, communities and last but not the least ecosystem.
First of all, I think there are several reasons why all the animal can bunch up together, the important thing of all, are the animals reliey on climate or the weather. Not all the animals live in same climate within they search for different food. They do not like when their appetite changes, it can also depend on their skin, if their dry; they wouldn't want to live somewhere where your skins will burst(could be) or feel uncomfortable.
Well I didn't actually see animals hibernating but they first need to gather nutritions to eat during the winter since they would'nt hunt or find other resources. Some types of animals contribute to stack foods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraqkShpqsI Living things rock! Because, its us...

I hope that biotic factors stay sustain and alive, since we are one of the biotic factors, although it will be strange to take out one of them I am still supporting the biotic instead of nonliving abiotic.
We can pretty much sustain our lives since we can eat organisms (those we eat). But we should consider which one will be the best.

What I want to know

In this quarter, I would like to learn different thoughts about survival tips within learning more about organisms

A living thing is... organism

A living thing contains certain things such as or has to

• cells
• reproduce
• absorb or need nutrition
• excrete waste
• develop
• grow