Amazing Animals By: Cheyanna Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta My amazing animal would be a wolf. They have sharp teeth and have a thick fur coat. The wolf is in the same family group as a pet dog. When wolves hunt they often howl as a signal to other wolves in their pack. Girl wolves have 6 pups every spring. Wolves are found all over the world. There used to be over 37 kinds of wolves.That is why I love wolves so very very much.
Amazing Animals By: Conner Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta My favourite animal is the cheetah because it runs really fast and has good climbing skills. The cheetah eats meat. The cheetah likes to sneak up behind its prey before catching it. After the cheetah’s behind its prey, it will jump on it and kill it. The cheetah has to protect its food after it is killed or else a lion, for example, would eat it. Amazing Animals By: Cooper Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta My favourite animal is the tiger. The tiger is the largest living species of cat. The Siberian tiger is the largest species of tiger. Males weigh 180 to 306 kilograms, and females weigh 100 to 167 kilograms. A tiger’s body is built to capture and kill large prey through stealth and sudden attack.
Tigers have great hearing, which they use to locate prey in dense cover. Tigers also have good sight, during both day and night. During the day, a tiger’s sight is about the same as a human’s, though its ability to see detail is not as good. At night, when a tiger usually hunts, its sight is 6 times better than a human’s. Tigers have a great sense of smell, however, it’s rarely used for hunting. Smell is most commonly used for communicating with other tigers. Through scent markings, tigers can communicate their home range boundaries, and females can advertise their readiness to mate. A tiger can tell whether a scent belongs to a local resident or a stranger, a male or a female. Tigers also have a well developed sense of touch. They have sensory hairs called whiskers on their cheeks, above their eyes and on their muzzle. The whiskers, especially those on the muzzle, are used to feel for objects in the environment. Depending on the location, tigers can be found in a variety of habitats. These include tropical forests, evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, grasslands, savannahs, and rocky country. Tigers depend on concealment for stalking and ambushing prey. They look for places with ample food, water, and dense cover. Their favourite prey is deer or wild boar. Depending on the habitat, tigers may also eat antelope, buffalo, livestock, and a lot more.
Amazing Animals By: Drake Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta My amazing animal is the tiger because of its brightly coloured stripes, and its sharp teeth and claws. It has really fast speed because it can grip the ground with its paws when it runs. The kinds of food a tiger eats are fish, deer and mountain goats. One of the tiger’s skills is climbing trees. When it is up the tree the tiger puts its paws down and quickly catches fish for the
baby tigers. It protects its babies and teaches the babies how to hunt. The most common game tigers play is tag and wrestling. Amazing Animals By: Jared Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta The animal that I think is amazing is a kangaroo. With its tremendous speed it can go as fast as a car. The kangaroo has a huge jump, it can probably jump over a car. The kangaroo can go so fast with its long legs. It can maybe jump four feet.
Amazing Animals By: Noah Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta My amazing animal is the T-REX because no one will mess with him. He is big and strong. Also they have sharp teeth. The T-REX is a meat eater so they don’t have to eat leaves. The T-REX only exists in fossil form now. They have been dead for 65 to 68 million years. It was a very tall dinosaur measuring 43 feet. It lives in the forest.
Amazing Animals By: Sarina Submitted by R.J. Hawkey Elementary School Airdrie, Alberta
My amazing animal would have to be a tiger because I think he is really big and I think that it is really cool that a tiger can hunt for its own food. What I think is cool is a tiger has stripes. I like how it is orange. I don’t think I know another animal like that! Tigers mostly live in Africa. They are very good hunters!