MY PROJECT
Descriptive Text about Animal
Name
: Cantika Zalfa Alifiana R.
I like Elephants
I like elephants. Elephants are the biggest land animals in the world. The African elephant is found on the continent of Africa and the Indian elephant is found in Asia. Elephants are mammals as well as herbivores, meaning they only eat plants rather than meat.
I know that there are two main types of elephants; the African elephant and the Indian elephant. The African elephant is bigger than the Indian elephant. It has larger ears too. Both the males and females have tusks. The African elephant has wrinkly gray skin, a swayed back, and two tips at the end of its trunk that it can use like fingers to pick stuff up. The tusk make elephant look really cool.
The Giraffes
Giraffes are truly giant animals. They amaze me. I like giraffes because their long neck. They can grow up to 17 feet tall and weigh as much as 3,000 pounds. The male giraffes, called bulls, are typically larger than the females, called cows. The babies aren’t exactly small either. A baby giraffe, called a calf, is 6 feet tall at birth! Giraffes also have large hearts. Their hearts can be up to 2 feet long and weigh over 20 pounds. They need these large hearts to pump blood all the way up their long necks.
An Australia kangaroo
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long and very strong back legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more than three meters high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometers per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 1.60 meters and weigh over 90 kilos.
Dolphins
I really interested in the dolphins. They are one of the most playful and intelligent animals on our planet. Even though dolphins spend their lives in the water, they are not fish, but are mammals. Dolphins can’t breathe water like fish, but need to come to the surface to breath air.
Dolphins eat other smaller fish, but they eat squid, too, and some dolphins, like Killer Whales, will often eat small sea mammals like seals and penguins. Dolphins often hunt together, herding fish into packed groups or into inlets where they can be easily caught. Some dolphins will share their food with the young or let the young catch injured prey as practice. They don’t chew their food, they swallow it whole. Dolphins get the water they need from the animals they eat, rather than drinking ocean water.
Camel
Camel is a kind of desert animals which has big and strong body. These animals can be found in dry and desert regions in Asia and North Africa. Camel can travel in long distances without food and drinks at all in the middle of a hot desert. This can be happened because they can store their reserves food in the form of fat on its hump. Their unique foot makes them easy to walk on the thick sand in the desert. They also have thick and long eyelashes to help them see in the middle of a sandstorm. Their body is able to survive in the hot desert until the temperature reach 41 degrees Celsius. Moreover, the process of transpiration which only occurs on their skin rather than on their fur, makes camel can save a lot of reserves water on their body.
Cat
Cat or Felis (called in Latin), are carnivorous or meat-eaters. The word “cat” is said to represent an animal that has been domesticated. However, cats actually can be a tiger, lion, and cheetah which are a kind of wild animal.
A home cat which is quite familiar, is a mammal that has four legs, a tail, two pointy ears, and bushy hair. The feet have the sharp claws. You must be careful when holding the leg of a cat, because the claws are so powerful and can hurt both your hands and body.
Cat’s tail is used as a tool to communicate and to maintain the body balance. Two pointy cat ears have very good hearing. Cats even have a hearing performance two times than dogs and seven times better than human. The bushy hair is an attraction because some colors are striking and beautiful.
One thing that you should not forget is the cat’s moustaches. Cats have moustaches whose function is to detect preys in the dark. It is also used to know their emotions. When it leaning forward, then the cat is being friendly, but when leaning back, then they are in an aggressive condition. Last, the function of those is determining the change of wind direction.
Cat as the most popular pet in the world has a weight between 2.5 to 7 kilograms. Only a few cats that are able to weigh up to 10 kilograms. However, if fed in excess, you can see that the cat has a weight up to 23 pounds.
They can live up to 15-20 years. However, we now see that a cat only just able to live up to the age of 3-4 years. Meanwhile, they called as the sleeping animal. Cats can spend up to 16 hours every day only for sleeping. In addition to sleep, their another habit is licking their body in order to cleanse the body of impurities.
Rabbit
Rabbits are cute animals and have a thick hair. They have two eyes, four legs, two ears, and a tail. Their hair has become the main attraction so many people buy rabbits because of their hair color which is really fascinating. You can see a rabbit with a variety of different hair colors such as white, black, brown, gray, and others. One of the most preferred color is white, because of white, rabbit symbolized as a clean animal and absolutely adorable. Rabbit eye is very funny and most of them are back. Some types even have a red color of eye. One of the types of rabbits that have red eyes are Australian rabbits.
They have two long ears and even theirs can grow up to 10 cm. With their long ears, they could hear better and know the voices of their predators when approaching. Rabbit ears look so funny and sometimes moving up. Four feet they have are very strong, especially the hind feet because those are used as a point for jump. Front feet have 5 fingers while the hind feet have 4 fingers. Using four legs, they can run very fast and it makes them easier to run away from chasing predators.
They have an enough long body. They can grow between 20 to 50 cm with a weight between 0.4 kg to 2 kg. They has a short tail. Their tails looks like a cotton ball because it is so short. A female rabbit is pregnant for 30 days. Every birth, rabbits can deliver between 4 to 12 babies. This is why the rabbit population continues to grow rapidly and they do not become an endangered species. Females can mate since the age of 6 months, while the males when they reach the age of 7 months. After mating, the females will then make their nests in the ground to deliver the babies.
My Rottweiler Dog
I have a dog. He is a Rottweiler dog named Rogger. As another type of Rottweiler, Rogger has large size. If he stands up, his height is about 55 to 75 cm measured up to his shoulder and his weight is about 37 to 44 kg. He has large size because it is generally the type of Rottweiler dogs that always has the great body. Rottweiler dog is commonly used as a working dog. In his origin region in German, this dog is usually used to keep a cattle from wolves and foxes. My dog Rogger has a short fur that is attached to his skin, the texture is very thick and black. Rogger also has a dark brown and light brown shadow around his cheeks, chest, legs, and around his eyes. His tail is short because the tail has been cut by my father since he was puppy. His face looked very fierce and terrible. Rogger also has a very strong jaw. When his mouth opens, his big pointy teeth will appear. Then, the things that I love the most is his authoritative and very loud barking. It can frighten the strangers who heard his voice. Therefore I make him as a guard dog in my house.
Rogger placed in a large cage in front of my house. Rogger love being invited to walk around the complex of my house. My parents and I often take him a walk, especially in the afternoon. He is very excited to be invited to play. Whenever he get from the cage out, he will be very happy by bounding around the people who take him out of the cage.
BUTTERFLY
Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings.like all insects, they have six legs, three body parts, a pair of antennae, and compound eyes. The three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest), and abdomen (the tail end). The four wings and the six legs of the butterfly are connected to the thorax. The thorax contains the muscles that make the legs and wings move.
Butterflies ere very good fliers. They have two pairs, of large wings covered with colourful scales. Butterflies and moths are the only insects that have scaly wings. The wings are connected to the
butterfly’s thorax (mid-section). Butterflies can only fly if their body temperature is above 27 degrees Centigrade. Butterflies sun
themselves to warm up in cool weather. As butterflies get older, the colour of the wings fades and the wings become ragged.
BIRD
Birds are the members of vertebrate animals that have feathers and wings. It is estimated that there are approximately 8800-10200 bird species throughout the world, ranging from the smallest such as hummingbirds to the biggest one such as ostriches. Generally, they can fly in the air. But some of them cannot fly despite having wings. The birds that cannot fly such as: chicken, ostrich, duck and wild duck, while penguins are a good swimmers animals.
They have a morphology which is different one another. This
difference is adapted to their environment and food. For example its beak is so various such as beak shaped, hooked, long, small and large. The difference is adjusted to the type of their food. For example: the eagle has a strong hooked beak for tearing flesh. Its claw also has different shape. Some of them have a membrane such as in the duck legs. This membrane helps them to swim. Also, there are birds with strong claws like a hawk. Hawk’s foot is designed for gripping their prey.
They reproduce by spawning. Commonly, the eggs will be incubated before hatching. Time period to incubate every bird is different. For example chicken needs 21 days to incubate their eggs. Their habitat is also very diverse. They inhabit places that have a lot of foods such as forests, mountains, in the middle of city, sea, lakes and rivers others.
Tiger
Tiger (Panthera Tigris) is mammal that belongs to Chordate phylum (having spinal cord), Vertebrate subphylum (vertebrates), Felidae family (cat), Panthera genus, and Tigris species. They are the biggest cat that lives on earth. Even they are bigger than a lion. Besides being the largest cat, they are also the second fastest cat in terms of running, after cheetah. In the class of carnivorous animal, they are the third largest carnivores after polar bears and grizzly bears.
They have nine sub- species of which three species have been declared Vanished. The subspecies which still live on earth are Siberian tigers, tiger South China tiger, Indochinese tiger, Bengal tiger, and Malayan tiger. In general, male tigers weigh between 180 and 320 kg, while the weight is between 120 and 180 kg for females. Their body length is between 2.6 and 3.3 meters for males, while females’ body length is between 2.3 and 2.75 meters. Among the surviving subspecies, Sumatran tigers are the smallest and Siberian tigers are the biggest tiger in the world.
They have stripes on its body. The stripes are usually used as identity because each tiger has a different striped pattern. Besides used for an identity, it is also useful for camouflage from its prey. Commonly, colors of the stripes are orange and black while its hair chest is white. Nevertheless, Siberian tigers have pale stripes while Bengal tigers’ body is white.
In general, tigers have a white mane on the bottom of face. Unlike lions, their mane is less. Just like other species of big cats, they have a white spot on the back of both ears. They are a meat -eating animals (carnivores). They usually hunt fairly large prey such as forest cattle, elk, deer, and pigs. They belong to solitary animals. They prefer to live and hunt alone. Although come from the same family, they are different from ordinary cat. They really like to swim.
CROCODILE
Crocodiles range from 5 to 25 feet (1.5 to 7.5 m) in length. Crocodiles are one of the planets oldest living creatures, thought to be around 200 million years old which means that crocodiles were around in dinosaur times. Crocodiles live throughout the watery tropics of Africa, Asia, America and Australia,
congregating in freshwater environments in the worlds lakes and rivers. Crocodiles feed on fish, reptiles and mammals, the prey size generally dependent on the size of the crocodile.
Legend has it that if you are being chased by a crocodile, the only chance you have of getting away is by outsmarting the crocodile. Apparently the way to do this is to run away from the crocodile diagonally down a hill! The myth says that crocodiles have a very slow turning circle meaning that if you run
diagonally, the crocodile theoretically cant catch you.
As crazy as it sounds, crocodiles are known to swallow stones when they are on the banks of the water. The crocodile does this to not only help its
digestive system but also to aid the crocodiles water buoyancy. It is thought that by swallowing stones, the crocodile may also be able to swim to deeper parts of the water.
LION
Animals which commonly live in a group and dense forests or savannas which have lots of food are Lion. A group of lion consists of one male and many females. The male is the leader of the group who keeps the male lions and hunting areas, while the female lions have a task to look for food by hunting together.
Lion is often referred to call as the king of the jungle because lion is a very wild and malignant animal. Their big body and sinister face coupled with a long mane makes his enemy fears against them.
Their Weight can reach 225kg for males and 150 kg for females. In general, lion age could reach 10 to 15 years in the wild but if they are kept in a cage, they could reach 20 years old. This is because the lions kept alive by human, their foods will be guaranteed.
Koala
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is one of the Australia’s unique animals that have pockets (marsupials) like a kangaroo. The name of Koala comes from the aboriginal language which means e“not drinking”. It is because Koala is very rarely to drink water. They rely on water contained in eucalyptus leaves. They can be found along the eastern coast of Australia from Adelaide to Cape York Peninsula. They also can be found far inside the jungle. They live in areas which has enough rainfall.
They have a distinctive body shape. They have thick and soft fur and have wide ears. They also have large claws for climbing trees. The body weight is different one another. For example, the males can reach 14 kg, while the females in the northern part weighs only 5 kg.
They spend all t time at the top of the tree. They are quiet animals and do not like a fuss. They spend 20 hours each day by silence and just to sleep. However, during the mating season, they become more active. Even the males can emit a loud sound and can be heard up to a radius of 1 km.
Panda
Panda is one of the animals that are large and obese. They can weigh more than 100 kg, so if we look from a distance, the panda is very similar to the giant puppets. They are the animals that come from Western China and Tibet. Most of the species came from the jungle of bamboo because basically, their food is bamboo. They have two legs and two large hands. In addition to walking, the hands are also used to take the twigs and leaves of bamboo. Panda usual looking for food in clustered with other pandas.
Adult pandas have a length between 160 to 180 cm. Then, the weight of an adult panda is usually between 80 to 125 kg. Panda body size is similar to the black bear. However, pandas do not hibernate like a black bear. Panda has a large head, heavy body, rounded ears, and short tail. They walked like a human, and as I said before, that they use their legs to stand and their hands used to reach for the leaves and twigs of bamboo. They have a throat with a hard esophagus in order to avoid their throat injury due to the consumption of bamboo. They also have a large thumb to take the bamboo stems and leaves.
We have known a little about panda from the above description. You need to understand that it is not a cute animal. They are wild animals so we must be careful when close to them.
THE POLAR BEAR
The polar bear is a very big white bear. We call it the
polar bear because it lives inside the Arctic Circle near the
North Pole. There are no polar bears at the South Pole. The
polar bears live at the North Pole. There is only snow, ice,
and water. There is not any land.
These bears are three meters long, and weigh 450 kilos.
They can stand up on their back legs because they have very
wide feet. They can use their front legs like arms. The polar
bears can swim very well. They can swim 120 kilometers
out into the water. They catch fish and sea animals for food.
They go into the sea when they are afraid.
white coats. The governments of Canada, the United States,
and Russia say that no one can kill polar bears now. They do
not want all of these beautiful animals to die.
KOMODO
Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands.
Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg)
Komodo dragons are very greedy. They eat almost anything, but their favorite food is wild pigs and deer. They can chase as small animal, such as monkey in one gulp.
komodo dragons are good climbers. They climb trees to catch and eat small lizard and birds.
Cheetah
Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are part of cat family (Felidae). They also called as the most efficient predators on earth. They hunt their prey by counting on speed unlike other cat species that rely on tactics or group. They prefer to chase and pounce on prey that is in their scope. They are the fastest animals of all the land animals. Its speed can reach 110 km / h. It is faster than some of race cars.
They have a slender and long body. Its tail which is Very long serves to maintain balance while running. Its body covered by fur patterned bright yellow and black opaque spots. While at the bottom of the eyes there is a black line as tears melt angled to the side of the nose groove.
This animal is smart animals. They dropped the prey while running with a small touch on the back foot of its prey. When the prey falls, cheetahs will pounce on the Victim’s neck so that it bled to death. Although they are famous as the most frightening hunter, but the success rate in capturing its prey is only reach 40 % to 50 %.
can bear 9 babies. Weight of a newborn baby is around 300 gram. Baby cheetah has fine hairs all over his body. It will disappear after they become adults. Cheetah baby will follow its mother until at age 20 months. The average age of cheetah is only 12 years old in wild while they could reach 20 years old in cage
HORSE
A horse is a big and useful
domestic animal. It has a tough
body, incredibly strong legs and
a hairy tail. It is usually a very
timid animal unless
provoked. It is a herbivore who only eats grass. A horse is gifted with speed, so it is trained for racing in turf clubs. A good winning horse can fetch a hefty sum of money. Like dogs, a horse is an intelligent animal that can be trained to perform stunts and tricks to entertain audiences.
Horse has height is approximately is 1,5 meters, tall is 2 meters, and weight 100 kg. But don't all horse has not size like that. But
dependend age it that alone.
Horse usually to multiplied in the village, because in the village still much grasses, because main meal horse is grass. So horse easy
