This post is about the Koala, Cockroach, Great White Shark, Bottlenose Dolphin and the Polar Bear.

The Koala

The Koala has thick wooly fur that protects them from the heat and cold. It also acts as a raincoat. Koalas have thick, grayish fur, with white on their chests. They have large furry ears and leathery noses. They eat eucalytus leaves. They smell of cough drops because of their diet of eucalyptus leaves. They live in Australia and thousands of koalas are killed each year by cars and dogs.


The Cockroach

I chose to write about about cockroaches because they are cool!!(just kidding). Did you know that the world's largest cockroach is 6 inches long with a one-foot wingspan? Cockroaches can hold their breath for 4 minutes and they spend 75 percent of their lives resting.(so lazy!). The bad news is female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.(what a bummer) A cockroach can live for a week without its head!(how can it see???) Cockroaches use their feelers as noses. Their sense of smell is so great that they can recognize family and friends by their distinctive odors. Did you know that crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to relieve the pain?(Yuck!)


The Great White Shark

The great white has a robust large conical-shaped snout. Great White sharks have rows of teeth behind the main ones, allowing any that break off to be rapidly replaced. Great White sharks often swallow their own broken teeth along with chunks of their's prey's flesh.(eww.what if it chokes??) It has almost the samne upper and lower lobes on the tail fin. Great White sharks display couuntershading, having a white underside and a grey dorsal area that gives an overall "mottled" appearance. A typical adult Great White measures 4-4.8m, weighing 680-1100kg.(heavy). Great White Sharks are carnivorous and primarily eat fish, dolphins, porposises, whale carcasses and pinnipeds such as seals and sea lions and sometimes sea turtles. The shark is targerted by fisherman for its jaws, teeth and fins. Great White Sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters which have a temperature of between 12 and 24 degrees.


The Bottlenose Dolphin

The Bottlenose dolphin is gray, varying from dark grey at the top near the dorsal fin to very light grey and almost white at the underside. Its elongated upper and lower jaws form what is called a hostrum, or beak-like snout, which gives the animal its common name. Adults range from 2-4m and in weight from 150-650kg. The Bottlenose dolphin feeds on small fish, squid, crabs and shrimps. Sometimes dolphins will employ 'fish wacking' whereby a fish is stunned with the fluke to make catching and eating the fish easier.(cool!) The Tiger shark, Dusky shark and Bull shark are predators of the Bottlenose dolphin. The Bottlenose dolphin inhibits warm and temperate seas worldwide and may be found in all but the Artic and Antartic oceans.


The Polar Bear

The Polar Bear weighs 300-600kg(whoa). Its fur is actually hollow and transparent but it appears white in the snow. The Polar bear has a short tail, small ears and head and it has a long tapered body. The Polar bear's diet consists of seals, young walruses and whales. 60% of the Polar bears live in Canada.

That's all for now...

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