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Some animals like elephants, lions, and zebras are endangered, in this article I will inform you how they got into this status. Elephants In the case of the elephants, the main reason they are endangered is humans. Some poachers hunt these magnificent creatures for their tusks, which are made of
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The three main categories of animals according to what food they eat are: carnivores, herbivores, and 0mnivores. Carnivores Carnivores are all the animals that eat only meat, they fall into three groups: scavengers, predators, and insectivores. The scavengers like to recycle and eat already hunted and abandoned meat. Predators eat
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Ecosystems are all things in one location living and non-living. An ecosystem is a very fine balance of life and death which holds all the places in the world together. A way to disturb an ecosystem is by introducing an invasive species or by taking away some food source. An
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Water Snakes are the most common type of snake that can be found all over the U.S. They live near water in small rock outcroppings. They are mistaken by people as venomous, but they are not. These reptiles can grow to be about four feet in length. Their diet
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Leatherback Turtles are the largest sea turtles in the world and can grow up to five to six feet in length. They are called leatherbacks because they lack scales and a hard shell, but instead have a bony leather-like backplate. Leatherbacks mate, and females lay eggs in small holes in
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Not all reptiles are big and strong enough to defend themselves, so they survive using camouflage. These reptiles have adapted to become almost invisible in their habitats. One example of a reptile that uses camouflage is the lizard known as the Phelsuma. This small lizard lives in palm trees. When
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Reptiles are a class of animal that inhabit the earth. Their name comes from Latin, and it means "one who creeps". They are one of the largest classes of vertebrates in the world. They all lay eggs and breathe through lungs, in addition to that they have scales.
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Food chains are the simplified version of food webs. In a food chain, there are four different classes called the producer, first order consumer, second order consumer, and bacteria. The producer, much like in the food web, is a plant. It has this unique name because it produces its own
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Megalodons were a race of giant sharks that roamed the oceans. They became extinct, and can no longer be found on earth. Image for one moment what it would be like if they had never gone extinct, and if they still roamed the oceans today. Megalodons were sixty feet long
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Not all mosquitos suck blood, some of them eat fruit juice or other mosquitoes' larvae. Elephant mosquitos are some of the only mosquitoes in the world that eat juice. They also eat other species of mosquitos' larvae. Elephant mosquitoes are known to eat mosquitoes' larvae that are
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Migration is the movement of animals from one place to another place during winter to evade the cold and lack of food. The Whimbrel, Sandhill Crane, Prothonotary Warbler, and Black-throated Blue Warbler migrate over the winter into lands where they can find food in the winter. The Whimbrel is a
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Hibernation is a state which animals go into during the winter. While in this state, they do nothing but sleep all winter long. Before most animals go into this long sleep, they eat a lot of food. After munching and becoming really fat, they are ready to go into a