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Animal Fact File
Name: Kangaroo
Type: Mammal
Home: Australia
Habitat: Various places, including forest
Food: Grass
Body: Strong tail and back legs; long, pointed ears. Some grow 2 metres tall. Female kangaroos have a pouch, where their babies live.
Life span: About 6 years
Family: A baby kangaroo is called a joey. When it is small it eats, sleeps and travels in the mother's pouch.
It can: hop quickly on two legs; walk slowly on four legs; jump very high and swim.
It can't: walk backwards.
Fun facts
- There are more kangaroos than humans in Australia!
- There are four different types of kangaroos.
- A group of kangaroos is called a 'mob', a 'troop' or a 'court'.
Which animals do you like? Tell us about animals in your country!
Name: Cacomistle (Ringtail)
Type: Mammal (Carnivore)
Home: Southern United States, Mexico, Central America
Habitat: Rocky, semi-arid areas, often near water and in wooded canyons.
Food: Small rodents, rabbits, birds, insects, fruits, and berries.
Body: A cat-sized body with a long, ringed tail (longer than its body), large pointed ears, large eyes, and short, dense fur. Retractable claws.
Life span: About 7 years in the wild.
Family: A litter is typically 2-3 'kits' born in late spring. Kits are altricial (helpless) at birth.
It can: climb trees and rock faces with great agility, rotate its ankles 180 degrees to descend headfirst, move silently, and make various chirps and growls.
It can't: change the pattern of its tail rings (they are unique to each individual, though this is less common knowledge, so let's use a more universally true 'can't' like) tolerate extreme cold temperatures for long.
Fun facts:
They are also known as the 'Miner's Cat' because miners kept them to control pests.
Cacomixtles are members of the raccoon family, Procyonidae.
They are very shy, nocturnal, and solitary animals.
Name: Bat
Type: Mammal
Homme: All continents, except Antarctica
Habitad: Caves, Hollow trees, buitlings and forest
Food: Insects, fruit, nectar and polen (some species eat fish or small animals)
Body: Wings, small boda with fur and sharp teeth
Life Span: 10 or 30 years
Family: Baby bats are called pups.They stay close to their mothers and drink her milk until they learn to fly
It can: fly gracefully, hang upside down and have echolocation
It can't: walk easily on the grand
Fun Facts: Bats are the only mammals that can naturally fly
A single bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in just one hour
Name: Tlacuache
Type: Mammal
Home: Mexico and Latin America
Habitat: Various places, including scrublands, rocky areas, and cities
Food: Omnivore (fruits, insects, eggs)
Body: Prehensile tail; long snout; hairless ears. Female opossums have a pouch where their babies live.
Life span: About 2 to 4 years
Family: Babies are very small. When they grow, they travel on their mother's back.
It can: Climb trees and rocks quickly; play dead; eat insects and pests.
It can't: Live in very cold or snowy climates.
Fun facts:
• It is the only native marsupial in Mexico!
• Its low body temperature makes it almost immune to virus
ANIMAL FACT FILE
NAME: Pterosaur
TYPE: sauropsidae
HOME: United States
HABITAT: beaches, forests, grasslands
FOOD: insects and fish
BODY: strong wings, long peak, small and sharp teeth, small and thin legs. It grew 1 meter of stature and 1.20 meter long.
LIFE SPAN: 20 years
FAMILY: They was born from eggs. We can call their babies chicks
IT COULD: fly, walk in four legs, jump, run
IT COULDN'T: swim, walk in two legs, roar.
FUN FACTS:
They lived in the Jurassic period 150 million years ago.
They had hands and arms in their wings.
Their wings were connected to the talon/heel.
Name: Kangaroo
Type: Mammal
Home: Australia
Habitat: Various places, including forest
Food: Grass
Body: Strong tail and back legs; long, pointed ears. Some grow 2 metres tall. Female kangaroos have a pouch, where their babies live.
Life span: About 6 years
Family: A baby kangaroo is called a joey. When it is small it eats, sleeps and travels in the mother's pouch.
It can: hop quickly on two legs; walk slowly on four legs; jump very high and swim.
It can't: walk backwards.
The tiger is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. Wikipedia
Eats: Wild boar, Sambar deer
Conservation status: Endangered (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Lifespan: 10 – 15 years (In the wild)
Speed: 49 – 65 km/h (Adult, In Short Bursts)
Mass: 90 – 310 kg (Male, Adult), 65 – 170 kg (Female, Adult)
Name: Rattlesnake
Type: Reptiles
Home: American continent
Hábitat: In deserts, scrublands, grassland, pine and forests and tropical areas and seamos
Food: Rodents, birds or lizards
Body: Length of 90 cm but it can reach 130 cm, greenish, black or brown with yellow spots
Life span: 10-20 years
Family: From 10 to 20 offspring, it stays with the offspring for a week until they shed their skin, a baby Rattlesnake is called a snakelets
It can: Bites to defend it self, it wags it's tail to scare off predators
It can't : They can't be domesticated
They don't have eyelids
Fun Facts: The ones From North America are more venomous
Perceive vibrations
They only eat every two weeks