Thursday, June 12, 2008

About Animals1

Which is the biggest animals?
Answer:
The biggest animal that has ever lived is the blue whale- it is even larger than the biggest dinosaurs were. Blue whales can weigh as much as 150 cars!




What's the difference between rabbits and hares?
Answer:
Hares have longer legs and ears than rabbits. Their whiskers are longer, too.
Hare:
Rabbit:



What's the difference between alligators and crocodiles?
Answer:
Crocodiles have longer, more pointed snouts than alligators. Crocodiles also have one very large tooth sticking up on each side when they close their mouths.
Alligator:

Crocodile:



What's the difference between monkeys and apes?
Answer:
The big difference between these animals is that monkeys have long tails, but apes don't have tail at all. There are a lots of different kinds of monkeys, but the only apes are gorillas, orang-utans, chimpanzees and gibbons.
Monkey:

Apes:

What the difference between sharks and dolphins?
Answer:
Although sharks and dolphins look alike, they belong to two very different animal groups. Sharks are a kind of fish, but dolphins are members of another groups, the mammals.

Shark:

Dolphin:



What the difference between frogs and toads?
Answer:
Frogs usually have smooth skin and long legs for leaping. Most toads have lumpy skin and move their short thick bodies about by crawling.

Toad:
Frog:

Friday, June 6, 2008

About Babies Animal 5

Which baby hides in the forest?
Answer:
A young deer, called a fawn, is very wobbly on its legs. It couldn't outrun a hungry cougar or wolf! So when it sense danger, the young animals freezes and stays completely still until the danger has passed. The fawn's speckled coat helps it seem almost invisible in the forest's dappled light.










Which babies hide in a circle of horns?

Answer:
Adult musk oxen make a circle around their calves when danger threatens. They stand close together, with their heads, lowered, facing the enemy like a raw of shields. It takes a brave and hungry wolf to attack the wall of long, curved horns!









Which mother pretends she's sick?
Answer:
If a hungry hunter threatens a plover's nest, the mother bird pretends to be wounded. She flaps a wing as if it is broken and flutters weakly along the ground, moving away from the nest. She wants the enemy to think that she is injured and would be easy to capture. That way, the animal will go after her, not her babies.









Which Baby is always being washed?
Answer:
A mother cat licks her kitten from the moment they're born. Licking roughly around the new-born kitten's mouth make it gasp and start breathing. The mother's tongue dries the kitten's fur too, to keep the kitten warm.









Who enjoys a good groom?
Answer:
A baboon make sure her babies are well groomed. Working slowly, section by section, she parts the baby's fur and picks carefully with her fingers. She will remove pieces of dead skin, insect and dirt-and most of what she finds, she eat.

About Babies Animal 4

Which is the ugliest baby?
Answer:
One of the ugliest-looking babies is the vulture chick, with its big hooked beak and bare head and neck. But then its parent aren't very beautiful either. Maybe it comes from eating all that rotting meat.












Why do pandas have one baby at a time?

Answer:
A mother giant panda gives her cub so much love and attention that she can only cope with one at a time. By looking after her cub for a year or more, she is helping to make sure that her baby survives. There aren't many pandas left. Zoo keepers fly their pandas around the world so they can meet other pandas-and hopefully have babies.












Which animals lay hundreds of eggs?
Answer:
Most frogs and toads lay hundreds of eggs in a big frothy mass called spawn. Many of the eggs are eaten, but some of them survive and hatch into tadpoles.











Which family is always identical?

Answer:
Each time a nine-banded armadillo gives birth, she has four identical babies. They are either all female or all male. This is because a single egg inside the mother splits into four, and all four parts begin to grow-into identical quadruplets!









Which baby drinks the creamiest milk?
Answer:
A mother harp seal's milk is too thick and rich that it looks more like mayonnaise than milk. It's about 12 times creamier than cow's milk, and is such good food that can almost see the harp seal pup growing fatter as it feeds!

Thursday, June 5, 2008

About Babies Animals 3

Which baby is born under the snow?
Answer:
Polar bear cubs are born in an underground den, which their mother digs deep in the snow. Warm air is trapped inside the den, making it a surprisingly snug place to spend the winter months.











Which nests are 100 years old?
Answer:
American bald eagles fly back to the same nest year after year. They make a few repaira, than they lay their eggs. Some nests are over 100 years old, and are bigger and heavier than a car.












Who's at home in a bubble?
Answer:
Baby froshoppers are often called spittlebugs, because they make a bubbly froth very soon after they're born. They hide in this 'cuckoo spit' while they feed and grow.












Which is the biggest baby in the world?

Answer:
The baby blue whale is a real whopper, weighing up to 3,000 kilograms- that's as much as 1,000 human babies! As soon as it is born, its mum nudges it to the surface to take a first breath of air.











Which is the tallest baby?
Answer:
A baby giraffe is about two metres tall-that's taller than most grown-up people. The mother giraffe is taller still, and gives birth standing up. Her new baby hits the ground feet first. Ouch! It's a long way to fall.






Tuesday, June 3, 2008

About Babies Animals 2

Which baby has lots of aunties?
Answer:
As well as having a mother, a baby elephant has lots of aunts. That's because female elephant live in a large family groups of up to 50 animals. In fact, a new calf not only has plenty of aunts,it has grannies, sisters and cousins, too!











Which babies stay in a nursery?
Answer:
Mara lives in South America.They're kind of long-legged guinea pig. Mara parents never join their babies in burrow. They whistle down the hole and the young come scampering out.
Mara parents leaves thier babies under ground. To make sure they aren't lonely, lots of families share the same burrow. When a mother drops by to feed her young, she checks up on the other mara babies, too.













Which is a biggest nursery?
Answer:
Bracken Cave in the United States is home to over twenty million bats. The mothers leave their babies in a nursery, huddled together for warmth. The bats are so tightly packed, there may be a thousand in a space the size of a doormat.
A bat mother has such sharp hearing that she recognises her baby's call from millions of others in the cave.












Why do birds turn their egg?
Answer:
Birds turn their eggs so that every part of the eggs gets its fair share of warmth. The baby birds need warmth to grow-That's why a parent has to sit on the nest.













Which babies have the comfiest nest?

Answer:
Baby rabbits have a nest that is really cosy. Their mother biults it inside a burrow, plumping dry grass stalks into a cushion, and then covering it with her own soft fur.


Wednesday, May 28, 2008

About Babies Animals 1

Who's carried by the scruff of the neck?

Answer:

Like all cat mothers, a leopard lifts her cub by gripping the back of its neck in her mouth. The skin is very loose and baggy here, so the cub isn't hurt.It hangs quite still until she gently puts it down again.










Who clings on for dear life?

Answer:

A baby lemur rides on its mum’s back for the first seven months of its life. It wraps its legs around her and holds on tightly as she leaps through the forest on a hair-raising ride.







Why do kangaroos have pouches?

Answer:

A pouch is a safe place for a baby to grow. A new-born kangaroo is only the size of a peanut. It struggles through its mum’s fur until it reaches her warm pouch. There, it feeds on her milk and carries on growing.

* Only female kangaroo have a pouch. The male don’t have babies, so they don’t need one!









Which mother has her babies in prison?

Answer:

While the female hornbill is laying her egg in a hole in a tree, the male helps her to block up the door. But he leaves a hole for her beak so that he can feed her while she’s stuck inside.












Which baby has the worst mother?

Answer:

The female European cuckoo can’t be bothered to look after her chicks. This lazy mum lays an egg in another bird’s nest. When the egg hatches, it’s the other bird that does all the hard work, raising the chick.

* The cuckoo manages to trick because her egg matches the other one in the nest.










Which baby has the best mother?

Answer:

A baby gorilla has one of the best mums in the world. A grown-up gorilla may look a bit frightening to us, but she’s loving and gentle to her young. As well as grooming the baby, she feeds it for up to three years, and protects and helps it for longer still.

* Gorillas are type of ape along with chimpanzees, gibbons and orang-utans. All the apes make jolly good mum!








Which father gives birth to his young?

Answer:

The male seahorse has a special pouch on his body where the female lays her eggs. The male has o carry them around till they hatch, and then hundreds of baby seahorse shoot out into the sea.