Animals

= = =Freshwater Animals = = = = = =**River Otter - Olivia Engl** =  Live around water and food supply: marshes, swamps, rivers, lakes, and streams. Can adept to environment easily. Lives at almost all altitudes Pollution sensitive. Runs away when too much. Lives in burrows made out of sticks and mud. Semi-aquatic mammals. Short, sleek fur, thick tails, and short legs. Round head, short ears, and can close nose underwater.Whiskers are thick and long. Live up to 21 years in captivity and 8 to 9 years in the wild. Usually black or brown with golden brown markings. Feet have claws and are webbed. 35 to 51.18 inches in length and weigh about 11 to 30.8 lbs. Young are weaned at 3 months and leave at 6 months. Live alone or with a small group. “Play” a lot to develop skills. Must eat a lot during the day. Very good at swimming and diving.(can stay underwater for up to 8 min).Nocturnal hunters but w ill be out all day . Not really territorial. <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 135%;">They talk to each other with <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">whistles, growls <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 135%;">, barks <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">, <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 142.56%;">and screams.Their whiskers are very important. Help with seeing, touching and hunting in water and on land. Omnivores that usually <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> eats small amphibians. <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 135%;">Eaten by bobcats, coyotes, birds of <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> prey, <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 142.56%;">alligators, and other <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 135%;">large predators.Help environment by keeping fish and amphibian population down. <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Don’t affect <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 142.56%;">humans. Help in the aquatic system. Were hunted for fur. They are considered <span style="color: #3296e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> to be an unstable species.In the animal family of Mustelidae. Shy does not like to interact with other animals.

=<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Hellbender - Khalieb Garthwaite =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">· <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 169%;">9.4inch to two feet · 3.3lb to 5.5lb

Hellbenders are one of the biggest amphibians in the world, reaching about 2 feet long. Hellbenders are found in the foothills of the eastern United States. They once thrived in thousands <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 117%;"> of streams in the Appalachian mountains, and throughout the Ohio River valley.

Today, hellbenders are in few healthy stream, mainly in areas that have remained away from civilization (mainly in the rugged mountains of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.) They can still be found throughout their original range, but they are quickly becoming extinct in most places because many streams are not adequately protected from sediment runoff.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Brook Trout - Nicholas Appleby



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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The Brook Trout is truly a North American species. The brook trout varies in colors from green to brown, with red dots mixed in. The brook trout also has a very distinctive coloration (called vermiculations). The brook trout usually lives up to 7 years of age. Although there has been one brook trout that was found to be 15 years old! The brooks maximum weight is 15lbs. But the Brook Trout is supposed to be 11oz to 7 pounds. The species has a recorded 86cm long trout! When the typical length is 25 to 65cm long! The Brook Trout is a typical game, meaning the species is usually fished by humans/fisherman. When people catch this species, they usually release it, to preserve the population of the fish. So you can see that the Brook Trout is a truly amazing fish. ======

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 208%;">Angel Fish - Justin Taylor <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 156%;">**The scientific name for the angel fish is pterophyllum scalare and can also be spelled angelfish. They grow to be about a foot in height and six inches in length. They are easy to care for and will eat flakes, pellets, freeze dried (bloodworms, shrimp, and other things), and especially live foods. Their life span is between 8 and 10 years. They live in the Amazon River. They are generally peaceful, but are aggressive eaters and territorial during breeding.**

=<span style="color: #307330; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Giant Japanese Salamander-Terry Cramer =

<span style="color: #307330; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This is the giant Japanese freshwater salamander known as the Andrias japonicas. These salamanders live up to 80 years. They can grow up to 6 feet long. The giant Japanese salamander is in the Cryptobranchidae family. It is the world’s second largest salamander. It’s classified as near threatened. This amphibian lives in the rivers of northern Kyushu Island and western Honshu in Japan. This salamander inhabits cold, fast flowing freshwater mountain streams and rivers. This giant amphibian is generally active at night. It eats a variety of food including fish, smaller salamanders, worms, crawfish, and snails. In the morning they rest beneath rocks. With a wicked slow metabolism the giant Japanese salamander can go weeks without food if necessary. Like other amphibians it has smooth skin as apposed to gills. Reproduction occurs is late August when hundreds of individuals move to nesting sights. Males fight sometimes to the death for there mates. Females can produce as much as 500 eggs. Several males protect the eggs form fish and other predators. The eggs hatch 12 to 15 weeks later in spring.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Boto dolphin-Brittany Skillman


· Largest river dolphin · Weight up to 180kg (400 lb) · Length up to 2.6m (8.5’) · Most Botos are pink but some have a darker back · Lives in the Amazon river · It eats over 50 species of fish · Swims at 3.2 mi/h

Lesser Snow Goose- by: Nicole Moore
The lesser snow geese have two different appearances, white (snow), or blue (Blue). They have white heads; their faces are rusty orange because their features have been stained by iron in the earth where they feed, they feed in flocks; never alone. The lesser goose has a wingspan of about 90 cm and its average weight is 2.2 to 2.7 kg, the male being larger. Some white geese are found in North America, Southern Canada West of Quebec, Wrangel Island in the Soviet Arctic. The Lesser Snow Goose travels through the Central Flyaway, across some of the richest farmland in America. Traditionally, the geese wintered in coastal marsh areas where they used those short but very strong bills to dig the roots of marsh grasses for dinner.

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