Wonderful information about wonderful animals

Wonderful information about wonderful animals Ciara Meyer5th grade

The giraffeGiraffes are the tallest animals in the world !They like to eat the thorny leaves of the acacia tree.There arch enemy is a lion .When a predator comes near the giraffe signals the rest of the heard to start running .The giraffe can run up to 35 miles per hour, thats pretty fast!!!!

The giant panda!!!The giant panda is one of the rarrest mammals in the world.Of course they eat bamboo and are BIGThere's only about 1000 of them left because they have to live in the wild.There diet is mostly bamboo, 99% of it intactThey eat a lot and spend 12 hours a day doing it to, talk about a pig!!!

The cheetah! grrrrrrThe cheetah is the fastest mammal on land ,but very lazy!Cheetahs can reach a speed of 60-70 miles at short distancesCheetah have excellent eye sight that helps them hunt for pray in the day time .Sometimes the sly mammal perches up on a rock until a piece of pray comes by and then pounce!!!

Koalas! Koalas are related to the kangarooThey are also marsupialsMarsupials have pouches where babies develop!A koala usually has only one baby at a time.The baby is called a Joey. the Joey is about the size of a jelly bean when it is born.

Zebras Every zebra has a different pattern.Zebras look at each others strips to to tell them apart.There are other reasons why zebras have strips.

Compare and contrast The panda has a diet of bamboo and lives up in treesThe cheetah is the fastest animal on land and is a mammal A koala is a marsupial and is very endangered and also lives up in trees.A zebra has stripes and is a mammal and is very unique