By: Alyssa Barreda, Angelica Ortiz, Bridget Puente, and Eliseya Kessler
Research about Animals
There are 12,475,482,341,273 discovered animals. There is probably
billions more and this does not include microscopic organisms.
Every year ten-thousand unknown species are discovered. Animals
aren’t the same as each other. The five most well known types of
animals are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. I used
to always think that there was human, animals, and monkeys. Then
around third grade I found out about humans and animals are in
the same category.
A mammal is a warm blooded vertebrate. They are members of a
clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and
birds by the possession of hair, three middle ear bones. The most
well known mammal is a tiger or scientifically the Panther Tigress.
The tiger is the largest cat species. In captivity it can live around
twenty to twenty-six years.
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A bird is a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate. They are a group of endothermic
vertebrates, characterized by feathers, a beak with no teeth, and typically they fly. Birds
lay hard-shelled eggs. The bird’s scientific name is Aves. There are around 10,000 different
bird species. The most popular type of bird is a Mallard Duck.
A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing
aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. The goldfish is a very popular fish. A
goldfish is a freshwater fish in the family of Cyprinidae. Scientifically a goldfish’s name is
Auratus. In captivity a gold fish can live around thirty years.
Reptiles are a group of tetrapod animals comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes,
lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. They are known to have dry and rough skin.
They tend to lay soft shelled eggs on land. A snake is either a lover or a biter. A snake is
scientifically called Serpentes. In captivity a snake can live around nine years.
An amphibian is another cold-blooded vertebrate. An amphibian’s class compromises
mostly frogs. Such as frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are known to have an
aquatic gill-breathing larval stage. Followed by a land breathing adult stage. Genetically
speaking frogs are similar to humans. Thanks to the African Clawed frog’s genome and the
human’s genome. Both of the genomes have a surprising number of commonalities.
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Land Animals
Every animal is special and unique
Each one is created with their instincts
With a different mind and physique
Yet so many are going extinct
With their own uniqueness they are all beautiful
Animals are free and fierce spirited
They hunt and attack for survival
Many have walked or ran leaving their paws printed
Everyday they each take a risk to face their rival
With their own fierce spirit they are all beautiful
Trough their eyes is their soul
And through their fur is their audacity
Each one with their own traits to become whole
There is so much beyond what we can see to our capacity
With their own traits they are all beautiful
They are all interesting creatures
We become curious and try to understand animals
And they own their different features
We might never completely understand them but
With their own features they are all beautiful
There is beauty in every animal
The variety and the species are infinite
Either it’s a tiger, a gorilla, or a bird they are all special
No matter what there will always be an animal to admire
With their own uniqueness they are all beautiful
Poem
Adopt a
Wildlife
You can adopt a wildlife animal by signing up for the
animal you want to adopt and then you will be notified if
you are able to adopt the animal. Then you pay a fee of
$50 to adopt the animal and you can visit your animal and
you will get updated on your animal.
Narrative
Jungle Animals
There once was an elephant named Adrian who loved to walk around his jungle home in
Australia. It was very green and natural and there were coconut trees and banana trees
everywhere and lots lakes and rivers where he would swim and relax with his buddies.
One day he was awakened by a loud sound he did not know what was happening so he
decided to explore this strange noise. He walked and walked but could not find what it
was or where it was coming from he decided to go back home and eat so he could
continue his hunt. As he walked home the sound seemed to get stronger he decided to
hold his lunch to see what it was. When he got close enough he saw that there was people
cutting the trees, he wondered why anyone would want to destroy his beautiful home.
He went to tell his friends; Marissa the monkey, Harry the hippo, Lucy the koala, Katy the
cheetah, Mario the Tucan and Gabriel the lion they were all very confused. They followed
Adrian to where he said the noise was coming from, to get a better look Marissa went to
the top of the highest trees to get a better look, she managed to see a sign that said "Area
closed for destruction". She started to worry; she told everyone what this could mean for
the jungle. They all decided to take action to save their home, it was getting late so they
went home and started to plan how to stop those people from destroying their home.
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They decided it would be best if the larger animals went first in exposing themselves that way they could
protect themselves with their bodies and strength if the humans decided to take action against them, then
the smaller animals would go in and see how they could help. They all agreed and went home so that they
would be well rested and ready for their plan.
In the morning Mario flew over the trees and woke everyone. They all got up ate and started making their
way to the construction sight and the larger animals started closing in on the machines and workers.
When one of the workers spotted Adrian they all got a huge net and started wrapping it around the
elephant when the other animals saw this they started running to him to help but they did the same with
all of the friends. When all of them were trapped they were released into giant cages and loaded onto an
airplane. They all were very confused and tried to rip open the cages but no matter how hard they tried
they could not break the thick bamboo cages. They all fell asleep trying to escape.
When everyone woke up they were inside of a big room and all of the animals were in huge cages
separated by species. They waited to see what was going to happen to them and in a couple of minutes a
lot of trucks came into the room and loaded up different animals. They were all taken their separate ways
nervously screaming. When the trucks stopped Adrian and the other animals saw a smaller version of his
jungle home, they slowly stepped out into the dirt and started to explore. They did not know what this
strange place was but it seemed to be great. People would come and feed them and others would cheer
for them for doing tricks. They made new friends but every once in a while they would remember being
free with other animals in their beautiful home.
Come Visit
The
Mountain
Safari
Located in San Antonio, Texas where you can see all the animals and take a
tour with the experts to see the animals and even feed them.
Open from Monday –Saturday
9 a.m.-5p.m.