This is a follow up of my last blog, I thought I would do more research on the animals I did the Kingdom Phylum for, this contains most of them.
Enjoy!
p.s.
If you want to see photos go my last blog. :)
Common Names
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Prey/food
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Predators
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Habitat
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Range
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Cool Fact
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Ghost Orchid
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It uses its roots to collect the needed mineral.
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Well it doesn’t precisely have a predator, just the
way it evolved means that the seed can’t germinate without a special fungus.
Also only one type on moth can pollinate it, this has led to it being endangered.
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They like marshes where it’s humid and damp and they
grow on trees.
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Found mainly in Cuba and Florida.
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There was too much text, so look below the chart.
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Date Palm
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Photosynthesis like all plants
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Since this plant is being planted and harvested by
humans, It has no predators.
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It likes dry, warm, and frost free environments
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We don’t really know where it’s native to, but it is
thought that the date palm is native to North Africa and the Middle East, but
today this commercially-important tree is also cultivated in western and
southern Asia, including parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It has
also been introduced to the Canary Islands, the northern Mediterranean and
southern United States.
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Date palm seeds can go dormant for decades until the
right light and water conditions are just right. Dates were probably
cultivated about 8,000 years ago in present-day Iraq.
Date palm trees need at least 100 days of 100ºF heat
and plenty of water to produce the best quality fruit.
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Homarus lobster
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Lobsters
like to eat crabs, clams, mussels, starfish, smaller fish, and sometimes even
other lobsters.
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At this stage they're vulnerable to lots of other
ocean creatures. Cod are the lobster's primary enemy, followed by other fish
that cruise the ocean floor for food. Tench, flounder, sculpin, wolffish,
ocean pout, monkfish, eels, rock gunnels, dogfish and crabs are known to eat
young lobsters when given the chance.
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Lobsters prefer to make their homes in rocky areas
where they can hide in the crevices from predators.
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The lobsters that most people know from their dinner
plates are the American and European clawed lobsters Homarus americanus and
Homarus gammarus. These are cold water species that live on either sides of
the northern Atlantic Ocean
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A lobster does have teeth — but they are not in its
mouth, they are in its stomach. The food is chewed in the stomach between by
what look like three molars
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Pacific Razor Clam
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They eat plankton and other small organic matter.
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Bears, racoons, walruses, birds, fish, and sea
otters. In other words these guys picked on by every body.
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They inhabit sandy beaches in the intertidal zone
down to a maximum water depth of about 9m.
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Range. Pacific razor clams can be found along the
Pacific. From Alaska to California.
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A single clam can filter up to 50 liters of water
daily. One siphon intakes water, which passes through the gills.
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Wolf Spider
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Wolf Spiders have good eyesight compared to other
spiders. The wolf spider can run fast and quickly pounce on its prey, and
bite it with its powerful jaws. The Wolf Spider eats many kinds of small
insects, including crickets, grasshoppersearwigs, flies, and ants.
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A wide variety of insects, mammals, birds, reptiles
and amphibians prey on the wolf spider; specific examples include coyotes,
owls and certain species of wasps. Wolf spiders are also cannibalistic.
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Wolf spiders live in all kinds of habitats, anywhere
there are insects to eat. They seem to be most common in open habitats like
grasslands, and are often found in farm fields and meadows. Most species stay
on the ground, but a few climb up onto trees and other plants when hunting.
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Wolf Spiders are found throughout Australia.
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When the wolf spider eggs hatch they are still inside
the Female, so the mother sacrifices her self so that the babies get enough
food, imagine! You first meal being you mom.
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Horseshoe Crab
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Horseshoe crabs are mainly predators. They feed on
small clams, crustaceans, and worms; however, they will also eat other
animals and even algae.
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Birds and many ocean animals eat horseshoe crab eggs
and larvae. Their eggs are an important food source for at least 11 species
of migratory shore birds, including the red knot, which relies strictly on
horseshoe crab eggs for food during migration. Sea turtles also eat the eggs
and larvae.
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Adult horseshoe crabs feed deeper in the ocean until
they return to the beach to spawn.
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The horseshoe crab is found in the Atlantic Ocean
along the North American coastline. They can be seen along the East and Gulf
coasts of the United States and Mexico.
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Because they have no mandibles or teeth, they crush
hard food between their legs before passing it to their mouth.
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Horse
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A horse's favourite breakfast, lunch, and dinner is
nothing other than good-green grass! In addition to grazing on pasture,
horses also often eat things like hay, concentrates, and treats!
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Predators of the horse include humans, mountain
lions, wolves, coyotes and even bears.
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The natural habitat of horses varies widely; they thrive
in lush valleys, on mountainsides, desert plateaus and grassy plains.
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Horses live in a variety of places and habitats,
including Asia and North America. The only undomesticated wild horse,
Przewalski's horse, is native to the Altai Mountains, plains, steppes and
shrublands of Mongolia.
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Horses only turn of half of there brain when they
sleep standing up, this is so the other ones can lay down and get a full
sleep but there are still horses watching for predators, literally half
asleep. This is very common in mammals that live in the ocean
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Moose
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The moose eats large amounts of catkins and tall
grasses living in the water. They even eat the leaves of water lilies
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It is such a large herbivore, or plant-eating
animal, that it only has two predators or natural enemies. Wolves often
attack, kill and eat moose. But usually it takes many wolves to kill a moose.
Grizzly bears will also hunt them if they are desperate enough.
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The moose lives in forested areas where there is
snow cover in the winter and nearby lakes, bogs, swamps, streams and ponds.
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Moose live in the northern regions of North America,
Europe and Asia.
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Since they spend most of there time in marshes they
are amazing swimmers.
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Cat
(House)
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They love those crunchy and wet food, but if you’ve
a more adventures feline they will eat small birds, mice, rats, and sometimes
even small rabbits.
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Coyotes, hawks, owls, raccoons, foxes, dogs and
coyotes occasionally feed on domestic and feral cats.
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A nice comfy place in front of the fire.
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All over the world.
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They have now created a cat that does not make
people allergic. They took out that gene of the cat. Meaning people who once
could not enjoy the warmth of a friendly feline now can.
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Siberian Tiger
(not so house)
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Siberian tigers feed mainly on wild boar, elk and
deer, but they also eat lynx and even bears. If the tiger cannot find larger
prey it instead feeds on fish, rodents and rabbits. During normal conditions,
around 50 percent of the tiger's diet will be of wild boar.
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Sadly the only predator is humans that hunt them for
their pelts.
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The typical Siberian tiger habitat is the Russian
woodlands where scrub oak, birch and coniferous trees dominate the landscape.
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Earlier, Siberian tigers could be found in Russia,
China and Korea. The Primorski Krai region in eastern Russia is especially
rich in Siberian tigers, but they are rare even there.
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Tigers can easily jump over 5 meters in length.
Also none of their toes have the same type of fingerprint.
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Platypus
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The platypus is a carnivore: it feeds on annelid
worms, insect larvae, freshwater shrimp, and freshwater yabby that it digs
out of the riverbed with its snout or catches while swimming
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Fox, Snakes, and Crocodiles hunt are Frankenstein of
an animal.
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Across the continent of their natural habitat, the
platypus mostly lives in freshwater lakes, rivers, lagoons, farm dams, and
streams. Most platypuses are found in bodies of water that have earth banks
with roots, overhanging vegetation, reeds, and logs to be more suitable for
constructing their burrows.
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Platypuses live only in the eastern parts of
Australia. There are no populations elsewhere in the world
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It uses cheek-pouches to carry prey to the surface,
where it is eaten. Oh and encase you’re from another planet or live in a pile
of dirt, platypuses our one of 5 species of mammals that lay eggs.
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Australian
Kangaroo Mouse
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Both species of kangaroo mouse live in sandy desert
ecosystems, and forage for seeds and vegetation amongst the scrub brush of
their native habitat. The dark kangaroo mouse is also known to feed occasionally
on insects and carrion. The mouse rarely drinks water, instead deriving it
metabolically from the foods it eats.
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Humans are their biggest threat, because the largest
loss of habitat is due to human activity. Livestock grazing, which has
occurred since the 1860s, destroys large areas of land. Agricultural growth,
especially large areas being planted in alfalfa, has taken much of their
habitat. Wildfires and invasive plants are also considerations. Predators of
kangaroo mice are kit foxes, snakes, owls and badgers.
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Both species of kangaroo mouse live in sandy desert.
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Australia
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It can loose its skin completely when a predator try’s
to catch it, leaving a gaping wound (it regrows in 2-3 days), like a lizard
loosing its tail.
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Kodiak Bear
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Fish Lover's Diet. Fish, far and away, is the
optimal prey animal for Kodiak bears. Pacific salmon specifically is favourite
meat, although it's only accessible to them during the springtime. When these
bears eat the calorie-rich fish, they are especially fond of not only the
flesh, but also the eggs and brains.
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Humans.
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On the terrain of wherever they live.
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The Kodiak bear known as the Kodiak brown bear,
sometimes the Alaskan brown bear inhabits the islands of the Kodiak
Archipelago in southwest Alaska.
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Kodiak brown bears are a unique subspecies of the
brown bear. They are the largest of all bears in stature, but polar bears can
be heavier. The male grows larger than the female, rising up to 1.5 meters (5
feet) high on all fours and reaching up to 3 meters (10 feet) high when
standing on two legs. If threatened, a charging brown bear can reach a speed
of 48 kilometers (30 miles) per hour. Brown bears are omnivorous and depend
upon their keen sense of smell, more than their hearing or sight, to locate
food or inspect their surroundings. They hibernate during the coldest months,
emerging again in spring.
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The Ghost Orchid Cool FACT
This orchid is exceptional
among the monocots, in that it consists of a greatly reduced stem and its
leaves have been reduced to scales. The flat, cord-like green roots constitute
the bulk of the mature plant. They bear distinctive white "track
marks", for which the technical term is pneumatodes and are believed to
function partly like stomata, enabling the photosynthetic roots to perform the
gas exchange necessary for respiration and photosynthesis. Chloroplasts in
these flattened roots perform practically all the plant's photosynthesis. Their
outer layer is an example of the velamen typical of most epiphytic orchids. Its
functions include the absorption of nutrients and water, and admission of light
for photosynthesis.
(I quoted this part from the
wiki, because I can’t say it any better.)
Thank you Wiki making this
possible.
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