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NC Zoo Animal Facts

By Mrs. Avent’s ClassSpring 2011

Description-length 10 ½ feet

Diet-eats mammals

Home-Africa South Sahara

Eats in the night

Created by: Devindra Balmick

African lion

Facts researched on Grolier Online

Height-10 feet Weight-up to1 ton

Diet-grasses

United States & Canada

Endangered

American bison

Created by: Gracie Resources from: Grolier Online

Description – up to 20 to 24 inches

Diet – green plants, small animals, and honey

Home – the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Interesting fact – it eats honey like we do!

Created by: Bridgette Ervin

Hamadryas Baboon


Description -8 feet tall and weighs 150 to 250 pounds

Diet –plant shoots, leaves, flowers, seeds and some small animals

Home –Africa south of the Sahara

Tiny wings can’t fly

Created by: Sarah Walker

Ostrich


Description-3 to 4 ¼ feet, 100 to175 pounds

Diet-insects, fruit, leaves and seeds, but some meat

Home-West central Africa

Closest mammal to humans

Created by: Whit Miller

Chimpanzee


Description - 6 ½ feet long

Diet – deer, sheep, antelope, rodents, rabbits, hares

Home – North and south America

When babies are born they are 100 pounds.

Created by: Claire Fowler

Puma


Description-twelve inches long

Diet-grass occasionally cacti and berries

Home-southwestern United States and northern Mexico

The eggs are up to 12.WOW!

Created by: Bailey Anderson

Desert tortoise


Description-13 to 15 feet

Diet-leaves branches and trees

Home-Savannas of Africa

Weight to 1,200 to 4,300

Created by: Téa Waldt

Giraffe


Height:6 feet-Weight:175 to 200 (female) 300 to 400 (male)

Eats mostly leaves & shoots

West & Central Africa

Only several thousand left

Created by: Levi Turner

Gorilla


Description- 7 to 8 feet 850 pounds

Diet -plants and some animals

Home -Alaska and western Canada

Interesting fact-usually mind their own business

Created by Naia King

Grizzly bear


Looks like dark yellow coat with spots on it

Diet-Small mammals and reptiles

Home-central south America

Cat family

Created by: Alyse Johnson

Ocelot


Description -8 feet

Diet –seeds and plants

Home –Africa south Interesting fact –that

the female ostrich lays 4 to 8 eggs

Ostrich

Facts researched on Grolier OnlineCreated by: Thomas

Description- 6 ½ to 9 ½ feet in length weighs up to 1400 lbs

Diet –seals ,fish, seabirds, berries, plants, material

Home –Arctic regions

Runs faster than 15 miles per hour

Created by: Diego

Polar Bear


12 to13 inches long

Eats mainly fish

The coastal area of the North Atlantic and Arctic

Only lays one egg at a time

Created by: Claire M.

Atlantic Puffin


Description-has a sleek body with a rounded head

Diet-eats fish other mammals and water birds

Home-makes it’s home in a waterway or a hollow log

Crosses mountain ranges when food is scarce

Created by: Bettie

River Otter [Canadian]


Description- has short wings, weight 6 ounces

Diet-eat insects, reptiles small birds and fruit

Home-southwestern United States and Mexico

Interesting fact-runs 15 miles per hour

Created by: Jonathan

Roadrunner


Length 6 to 8 (male) 5 to 6 (female); Weight is 440 to 660 pounds (male)100 to 220 pounds (female)

Eats Squid, Octopus and fish

Lives at the Pacific Coast of North America

Can only have 1 young

Created by: Katrina

Sea lion (California)


Weight- 2 tons

Diet-Grass

Home-South Africa

2nd Largest Animal

Created by: Isaiah

White Rhinoceros


Description- 20 to 28 inches long

Diet-mainly lemmings

Home-Places their white coat blends in

Has other important adaptations

Created by: James Rankin

Arctic Fox


Description-Black and white

Diet-grass and Buds

Home-Africa

Covers distances of 100 miles or more

Created by: Parker Yancey

Plains zebra


Description-It has a long tusk and wrinkly ears

Diet-leaves, plant shoots, grasses, fruits and flowers

Home-sub-Saharan African

Tusks also help knock down trees

Created by: Miriam Sey

African elephant


Height-10 feet Weight-up to1 ton

Diet-grasses

United States & Canada

Endangered

American bison

Created by: Gracie Resources from: Grolier Online

It looks like it has brown and black

It eats mainly rabbits and it eats birds

Home - it lives in the South Eastern United States

not red but it is black and brown

Created by Allison

THE RED WOLF


Description-large hind limbs, small front legs, short coarse hair

Diet-fish and squid

Home-lives in the sea

Interesting fact-weighs 22 pounds

Created by: Makaia

Harbor seal


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