Purpose – To inform
Phoneutri
Fria is the Greek name for the Brazilian Wandering Spider. Their nickname is
the banana spider.
The
Brazilian Wandering Spiders are found in Costa Rica, Columbia, Peru, Brazil and
Paraguay. Brazilian Wandering Spiders are mostly found in tropical rainforest.
Brazilian Wandering
Spiders are the most venomous spiders in the world. Brazilian Wandering Spiders
appeared in the Guinness World Record in 2013 for the most venomous spider. The
Brazilian Wandering Spider’s venom contains a potent neurotoxin known as PhTx3.
Appearance
They have a
leg span of 6 inches. They can grow up to have a leg span of 13 to 15 inches.
They can grow up to 17 to 48 mm.
What Do They Eat?
Mating
| The eggs of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. |
Enemies
The
Brazilian Wandering Spider has only one enemy and that animal is the Pompilid
wasp. The wasp stings the spider which paralyses the spider but does not kill
it.
Bibliography
By ibrahim
Poison
Dart Frog
Appearance
This is where the frog is found.
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Habitat
These frogs
live in Central and South America. Most of these frogs live on the forest
floor.
Reproduction These frogs are Amphibians and lay their eggs on leaves. When
the baby hatches it is carried on one of the parent’s back.
Most of the time the baby gets
fed all the infertile eggs after it is born.
Food
Poison dart
frogs eat small insects like ants, spiders, crustaceans and tiny water animals.
This is the
leimadphis epinepheleus
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This frog
has one enemy which is the leimadphis epinepheleus. The leimadphis epinepheleus
is a snake that has developed a resistance to the frogs poison.
Behaviour
Unlike most
other frogs the poison dart frog is mostly found in the daytime. They prefer the company of two or more frogs.
Interesting facts
·
An amount smaller
than a grain of salt of its poison can kill a human.
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Its poison can cause
paralysis or death.
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The poison dart frog
is the size of a man’s thumbnail.
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They live for 3 to 5
years.
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One frog carries
enough poison to kill about 100 people.
·
People used to use
its poison on arrows to hunt. That’s how they got their name.
·
The golden poison
dart frogs are the most deadly.
Bibliography
By Rukayah
The Cassowary
Diet
Text type:
Informative
Purpose: To
inform
Audience:
5/6J and visitors
Appearance
Cassowaries are large flightless
birds. They have a horny helmet called a casque, a blue or orange neck and head
with two long wattles handing on its neck. It has a huge black body, with thick
grey legs and three toes on each leg. The inner toe has a 12cm claw-like spike
used for defence.
Habitat
There are three types of cassowaries;
two are in New Guinea and one in Northern Queensland. They all live in tropical
rainforests.
They normally eat fruits from trees
and seed. They can also eat small mammals, dead bird, eggs, frogs and snails. Cassowaries
can eat more than 238 species of plants.
Predators
Cassowaries don’t have any natural
predators, their only predator is people. Only their eggs have predators, which
are lizards and white
rats.
Behaviour
The Southern Cassowaries are very
good swimmers and runners. All cassowaries can listen to slow moves and then
crash into them at the speed of 50km/hrs.
Interesting Fact
·
Female
cassowaries are larger than males.
·
There
are only 1500 cassowaries left in the world.
·
The
three types of cassowary are the Dwarf cassowary, Northern cassowary, Southern
cassowary.
·
More
than 80% of its habitat has been cleared over the last 100 years.
·
The
southern cassowary is the world’s third largest bird and the second heaviest.
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Cassowaries
are the world’s largest forest bird and second-heaviest it’s only lighter than the
ostrich and is the third tallest the ostrich and the emu are taller.
Bibliographies
http://cassowaryrecoveryteam.org/the-southern-cassowary/diet/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_interesting_fact_about_cassowaries#slide=3&article=What_is_an_interesting_fact_about_cassowaries
By Lancy
Toco Toucan
Toco toucan is the most common toucan you would find.They are not very good at flying so they
hop and walk.The toco toucans bill are not very strong.The bright colours
of a toucan gives them camouflage in
colourful rainforests.They are the largest of all toucans.Their bills are made
out of keratin.
Appearance
Toco toucan measures 63.5cm in length. It has a bright orange beak about
16cm.It weighs between 592
and760g.
Habbit
The toco toucan
is native to South America also they live in tropical rainforests, Savannas and
Shrubland.They also are located in central Caribbean.They live in hollow trees.
Diet
They are omnivorous. They eat various types of fruit
they also eat insects or lizards.Toco toucans eat nuts,berries,seeds and
eggs.
Enemies
The toco toucan
has numbers of enemies in the jungle
humans,large birds and wild cats. Weasels,snakes and rats eat there eggs.
Behaviour
You would commonly find it flying across rivers. You can also find them
in the canopy and the understory or ground. There are many use of its bill
feeding and defence
Interesting Facts
The toco toucan is a third of the three biggest toucans. They in flock 6
to 12 birds. Its closest relative is the woodpecker.
Bibliography
Animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu
Library.thinkquest.org
www.animalfactguide.com
A-z animals.com
by Jacky
by Jacky
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