GUESS THE ANIMAL!!
It’s that awesome day of the week where you have to guess the animal! Take a look at the picture, read the clues and tell who you think it is!
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WORLD ORANGUTAN DAY!!
WORLD ORANGUTAN DAY!!!
We’re celebrating some orange apes today! These amazing great apes call Asia home. They are amazingly intelligent and have culture! These special creatures that we share the planet with are losing their homes at an alarming rate! We’re going to tell you why you should love them and how you can help!
Some of the food orangutans eat!
- Orangutans are great apes.
- There are two species, the Bornean and the Sumantran.
- Orangutans are solitary in the wild.
- Orangutans are arboreal (spend most of their lives in trees.)
- They are frugivores.
- Orangutans are highly intelligent.
- Baby orangutans stay with their mothers for around 8 years, the longest of any primate.
- Orangutans have extremely long arm spans, up to 7 feet from finger tips to finger tips.
- Orangutans’ feet are built just like hands and help them climb in the trees.
We love those faces. Orangutans are losing their precious forest homes due to palm oil plantations. Palm oil is used in many products and food. It is very hard to avoid totally. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has a wonderful resource for consumers to use. They have a list of products that use palm oil that is produced in a sustainable manner and is not taking over orangutans homes. This resource is a great tool to help orangs! Visiting your local zoo and learning more about these apes is a great way to help! Our local zoo, Zoo Atlanta does some fantastic research with orangutans. They are learning to use computers!
Check out the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo website. They even have a nifty app you can take with you when you are shopping!
Learn more about Zoo Atlanta’s Orangutan Learning Tree Project! They are doing some amazing work! We’ll be participating in the Redhead Run here in Atlanta to support orangutans too!
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SCIENCE WORD OF THE WEEK!
SCIENCE WORD OF THE WEEK!!
It’s time to get down to the business of the Science Word of the Week! Who’s excited?
Today’s word is Echolocation!
Echolocation is the locating of objects by sending out sound waves and those sound waves reflecting to the animal, giving them an image of the object. Echolocation is used by bats and dolphins to help give them a picture of their environment and to help them locate prey.
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SHARK LOVE!!
SHARK LOVE!!!
We know shark week is super popular on TV and we wanted to share some fun facts about sharks to celebrate these amazing creatures! We’re going to give you some great organizations that are working to protect sharks too!
- Shark skeletons are made of cartilage, the same tissue that makes up human noses and ears.
- Sharks can range in size of a few feet to up to 25 ft (whale shark).
- Some sharks can go through 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
- Sharks have been in the oceans for 400 million years.
- The largest shark in the ocean is the whale shark, these spotty large fish are filter feeders!
- Falling coconuts cause more deaths than sharks due.
- Bull sharks can live in fresh water and salt water.
- Great white sharks are warm blooded.
- Most sharks must swim contentiously to pump water over their gills. Some sharks like the wobbegong and nurse shark can rest on the ocean floor and pump water over their gills.
- Some sharks lay eggs, while others give birth to live young.
- Sharks are covered in dermal denticles, triangle shaped scales that give them protection and flexibility.
We think sharks are amazing creatures! They come in so many shapes and sizes! As the top predator in our world’s oceans they play a very important roll in keeping our oceans healthy! There is no need to fear these beautiful animals! Unfortunately sharks are facing an uncertain future! Check out these two great organizations and see how they are helping our shark friends!
The Pew Trust and the Ocean Conservancy!
For some laughs check out the web comic Shaaark cartoons!
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GUESS THE ANIMAL!!
GUESS THE ANIMAL!!
Can you guess this weeks animal? No clues this time! Remember to post in the comments what animal you think it is!
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GO GREY FOR ELEPHANTS!
GO GREY FOR ELEPHANTS!
Today is International Elephant Day and we’re going grey for elephants! Unfortunately Ellie’s wild cousins are being poached in Africa at alarming rates and it’s up to all of us to help them! Put on grey today and tell people you are wearing grey for elephants!
What do we love about elephants? Let us tell you!
- There are two species of elephants- Asian and African (Ellie).
- Only male Asian elephants have tusks.
- Both female and male African have tusks.
- Tusks are modified teeth that are made of ivory.
- All elephants are herbivores.
- Elephants are the largest land animal on earth.
- Elephants walk on their tip toes.
- African elephants can walk up to 50 miles a day.
- Elephants live in family groups that are made up of females, their female relatives and their offspring. The group is led by the oldest female.
- Adult male elephants live a solitary live.
- Elephants use their ears to cool off.
How can you help elephants? Check out these organizations that helping elephants: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, 96 Elephants (Join the Herd), United for Wildlife.
You can also enter our art contest– we’re making calendars and the proceeds of those sales will go to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust!
We want to see you in your grey today! Show us your #elphies on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram!
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SCIENCE WORD OF THE WEEK!
SCIENCE WORD OF THE WEEK!
It’s Monday and that means it time for our Science Word of the Week! We’re celebrating Shark Week and tomorrow I hope everyone will be wearing grey tomorrow for International Elephant Day! We want to see your support for elephants! Today we’re talking about a body part that fish have for our Science Word!
Barbels: a barbel is a finger-like projection on or near the mouth or near the nostrils of certain fish species. Barbels are sensing projections and some have taste buds. They help fish like catfish, hagfish or sturgeon.
Another fish that has barbels is the Wobbegong Shark! They use their barbels to detect prey on the bottom of the ocean floor.
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WORLD LION DAY!!
WORLD LION DAY!!
Happy World Lion Day! We love these big cats and we’re not lion :)! Hahaha!
We’re celebrating these gorgeous social cats with a coloring sheet!
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Bears and Seals!
Bears and Seals!
Yesterday’s Guess the Animal was the Black Bear. One of the clues was that this animal is related to seals. We had lots of people guess otter, because of this clue! That was a great guess, but otters are related to weasels and wolverines.
Bears on the other hand are related to seals and sea lions, otherwise known as pinnipeds. Last year we had a series of cartoons call We Are Fanimaly, where we talked about animal relatives. We’re going to show you the Bears and Pinnipeds cartoon again! We’d like to start the We Are Fanimaly posts again very soon!
FUN BEAR FACTS:
- Bears have shaggy coats and short tails.
- Bears are mammals.
- There are 8 species of bears.
- Many species hibernate during the winter.
- All bears are omnivores.
- Bears can live up to 30 years.
- Bears can run up to 40 mph.
- Polar bears are marine mammals.
- The most common bear is the brown bear.
FUN PINNIPED FACTS:
- The pinniped family includes seals and sea lions.
- Pinnipeds are mammals.
- There are 32 species of seals.
- Seals and sea lions have fur and a layer of blubber.
- Seals and sea lions are carnivores.
- Pinnipeds use their whiskers to find prey.
- Seals and seal lions are marine mammals.
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GUESS THE ANIMAL!!
GUESS THE ANIMAL!!
Who’s ready to guess the animal today? We’ve got an animal that lives in our neck of the woods! Be sure to tell us who you think it is!
- They are omnivores.
- They live all over North America.
- They are related to seals.
WHO IS IT?
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The Adventures of Ellie and Edmond 