The Great Barrier Reef is beautiful but also contains some of the deadliest most poisonous fish in the ocean, like the Box Jellyfish, the Blue Ringed Octopus, and the Stone Fish. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is found in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
The Great Barrier Reef is home to a wide range of life, including fish of many kinds sea turtles, giant clams, seahorses, sea snakes and eels, stingrays which are poisonous if you touch the tail, sharks and many more beautiful and deadly fish. Over 1500 different types of fish live in the Great Barrier Reef, including clownfish. Whales, and dolphins can also be seen in the Great Barrier Reef. Man made pollution is a big threat to the coral reef or great Barrier reef. An other threat is raped changes in water temperature. The Great Barrier Reef is home to about 400 species of coral! Six of the world’s seven species of sea turtles breed here at the great barrier reef. The Great Barrier Reef is made up of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands. Ashleigh
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There are around 300 species of octopus, usually located in tropical and temperate ocean waters, like coral reefs. Octopuses have two eyes in a globe-shaped head which is called a mantle off which protrude eight long limbs called tentacles which have two rows of sucker senses. Octopuses can squeeze into small spaces because they don't have a skeleton inside of them.
An octopus has a hard beak, like a parrot beak, which they use to break into and eat their pray like crabs and shellfish. Octopus have three hearts. Two branchial hearts pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third is a systemic hearts that pumps blood through the body. The largest octopus is believed to be the giant Pacific octopus, which weigh about 15 kg, and has an arm span up to 14 feet. An octopus's main defense against predators such as sharks is to hide and camouflage itself by using there skin cells to change its color. It can also be used to talk with or warn other octopuses near bye. Another defense is to make a fast escape. Octopuses can eject a thick, blackish ink in a large cloud to distract the predator while the octopus uses a jet propulsion system to quickly swim away headfirst, with arms trailing behind the octopus. Octopuses have very good eyesight and an excellent sense of touch. Ashleigh Lemurs are capable of using all their senses that includes the sense of smelling, tasting, hearing and all others. They can smell and understand whenever they find a meal or food to eat mostly anywhere. They know whenever there is a prey nearby so that they become alert and get ready to attack it. Lemurs have gray, or red fur, black and white tails, pointy noses, have mostly white faces... except for around the eyes which are black, and pointy ears like elves.
Lemurs are mostly found in Madagascar. They are also found in Comoro Islands. The word Lemur is Latin and means "spirits of the night". All Lemurs have a long nose and they have four legs. They sit or they stand up but they always walk on all fours. They don’t walk upright as other primates have been known to do. They have thin fur due to the warm locations of where they live. They live in families of up to 15 members. Most of them consist of males, females, and offspring. Though, there are some which are only females and their young. The males have been driven out so they live alone or they form male only families. The females are normally the leaders of the Lemur families. Catfish are a type of fish that belong to the group of ray-finned fish. Catfish mostly live in freshwater rivers or streams found in America. A catfish' length is normally 1-2 feet long, though a channel catfish can get up to 4.5 feet long. The largest catfish ever caught was a Mekong giant catfish, which was nearly 9 feet long and weighed 646 pounds!
A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds! When a new-born catfish reach 4 inches, it is the size of an index finger. Catfish are the fifth most popular fish in America. More than 447 million pounds of catfish were produced in 1995. Most species have tentacles protruding from the area around the mouth, that look like the whiskers of a cat, which is how they got their name. Not all catfish species have these whiskers, however. Catfish are always bottom-feeders, meaning they feed at the bottom of the water they inhabit. Their diet consists of fish, insects and worms, but they also sometimes feed on small mammals and reptiles. Catfish usually suck in or gulp down their prey instead of biting. A Mekong giant catfish could eat a child... for a snack! Some Catfish live in fresh water. A channel catfish's whiskers can sting you if you touch them. Ashleigh The flightless ostrich is the world's largest bird. They roam African savanna, and desert lands. They get most of their water from the plants that they eat. Though they cannot fly, ostriches are strong runners.
They can sprint up to 43 miles an hour and run over distance at 31 miles an hour. They do use their wings to try to run faster. An ostrich's powerful, long legs can cover 10 to 16 feet in a single stride. Their legs can also be used as weapons. Ostrich kicks can kill a human or a meat-eating predator like a lion. Each two-toed foot has a long, sharp claw. If at the approach of trouble, ostriches will lie down low and press their long giraffe like necks to the ground to become less visible. The ostrich has the largest eye of any land animal. Ostriches live in small herds that contain less than a dozen birds. The male sometimes mates with others in the group. Wandering males may also mate with lesser hens. The dominant hen and male take turns incubating the giant eggs, each one of which weighs as much as two dozen chicken eggs. Ashleigh |
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