Tuesday, December 30, 2008

My Favorite African Animals:

    The rhinoceros eats up to 200 types of plants.  The also eat roots and bark off of trees. Their  predators are humans.  They live between 35-40 years.

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   The Gerenuk does not have to drink water because he gets water from the flowers and plants that he eats.

gerenuk The gerenuks predators are cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, and humans.  Gerenuks eat climbing plants, flowers, leaves, tall bushes, and short trees.

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This is a Thomson’s Gazelle.  There are several types of gazelles.  Gazelles used to be in Europe, but when the ice age came most of them died. 

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Gazelles like to eat flowers, leaves, and fruit.  Their predators are wild dogs, cheetahs, jackals, and humans.

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Giraffes have purple tongues and very long necks.  They are the tallest land animal.  They have little horns.  They can go a week without water.  They sleep about two hours a day.

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Their predators are lions, leopards, and humans.  They eat Acacia tree leaves, fruit trees, 

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I like zebras because the are related to horses, and I like horses. 

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They are both hoofed animals.  They have black  and white stripes, and they have little tails.

Zebras eat grass, shrubs, twigs, leaves, and bark. 

Predators of zebras are lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and humans.

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