Herbivore: The Wild Rabbit
Diet
Wild rabbits eat grass, wild flowers, weeds, and farm and garden crops. In winter, their diet changes slightly to buds, twigs, bark, conifer needles, etc. Rabbits, like hares, tend to re-ingest their faeces in order to further digest it. This process is called ‘coprophagy’. (Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, 2014)
Feeding Habits
The rabbit feeds frequently–up to 30 times per day of 2–8 g of food over 4-6 minute periods. (Johnson-Delaney, 2006) The quantities rabbits need to eat depend on age/lifestyle/general health. Rabbits become overweight and may suffer if eating more food than needed. (RSPCA, 2014)
Rabbit Dentition and Dental Formula
Rabbits' teeth grow continuously and thus they need wearing
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Carnivore: The Great White Shark
Diet
Young Great White sharks tend to feed on small prey like fish and rays. As they grow, so does their appetite. They tend to feed on marine mammals including sea lions, seals and small whales when they grow older and larger. (Animal Fact Guide, 2014)
Feeding Habits
In order to survive, sharks need to eat roughly 3% of their body weight every day. However, if a shark has a large meal in one sitting, it can last the shark for a few days sue to the digestion speed. For example: a 30 kg meal would be enough for 12-15 days depending on the size of the shark. (Discovery Communications, 2014)
Teeth
Digestive system’s length and complexity
The shark has an expandable stomach which is useful when the shark eats large quantities of food in one meal. Due to the shark’s meals being far apart it has a relatively short gut which contains a valve-structure that slows down the food’s journey. It thus allows for food to be properly digested and nutrients to be efficiently absorbed. The Great White shark’s body temperature and stomach is warmer than that of its surroundings thus allowing it to digest its meal within two days instead of three days as in other species. (The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, n.d.) The shark intestine is spiralled and shortened as to ensure it takes up the least amount of space possible. (Lefevre, n.d.) Omnivore: Giant Panda
Diet and Feeding Habits
A panda eats
Sharks do not have skeletons, but just cartilage. Also their jaws can move independently without any of their other body parts. It allows them to have a stronger hold on their prey. Sharks have oil in their liver that allow them to eat less often. So when they eat us up, they must be really hungry. Their fins help them feel vibrations of other creatures so that they can get into position to pounce on their prey.
Sharks have been in our oceans for almost 450 million years. Those millions of years of evolution have allowed many different shark species to develop abilities, and to become perfect predators.
Most sharks eat their prey whole, or tear off large chunks of flesh at a time.
Adapted for a wide range of aquatic habitats, various shark species inhabit shallow coastal habitats, deep-water ocean floor habitats, and the open ocean. With a wide selection to feed off of, as a whole the shark species feed on just about everything. Their diet consists of fish,
They also prey on smaller fish such as skates, eels, herring, and cod. On occasion remains of larger mammals such as seals, moose, polar bears, and reindeer have been found in their stomachs. Its even speculated that these sharks ambush seals, with their ice holes being like beacons. Female Greenland sharks are ovoviviparous, meaning that they retain the developing embryo inside of their bodies to hatch instead of depositing it into the mud. While the gestation period is unknown there are usually 10 pups per litter that are about 90 centimeters
Many people call sharks beasts, terrible things, killers, but they are not. For instance sharks need to eat to just like humans. Sharks can eat all day. When sharks eat too much they throw it up and eat more. Sharks fend for themselves when they are hungry they might find other sharks and eat them. Sharks eat squid, shrimp, sardines, tuna. Besides sharks can never stop moving so they don't’ stay in one spot. Lastly sharks might look mean but they are
White-tailed deer are large primary consumers or herbivores that feed on plants (primary producers). Their diet consists mainly of grasses, herbaceous plants, and fruits. Their diet changes according to the habitat and season. For instance, they feed on green plants such as grasses, forbs, crops, leaves, twigs, and buds during the summer and spring season (Curtis and Sullivan 2001). In the fall, they concentrate on nuts, acorns, and corns. They eat twigs and buds during the winter season.
jaw structure. The teeth are actually modified, enlarged placoid scales. The teeth aren’t anchored in the jaw; they are just embedded on the gums. Unfortunately, when the great white shark eats on its prey, it sometimes loses or breaks the tooth by the flesh. Luckily, sharks have developed a special feature that enables it to replace its missing tooth. They have developed rows of teeth, each tooth moving up to replace the missing one. A whole broken row of teeth can be replenished, just like a conveyor belt. Each tooth, though, has a different shape, changing according to its necessity. The great white has triangular, serrated-edged teeth anywhere from one to two inches long. With this feature, the shark is able to tear through the flesh for its meal. The jaw of the shark is made up of strong bone tissue. It must be very powerful because the shark is designed for feeding.
The Australian Grey Nurse Shark is also known as the Spotted Ragged-Tooth Shark and as the Sand Tiger Shark ("Australian Threatened Species”). The species is identified by its gray to gray-brown coloration, the possible presence of reddish/brownish spots on the caudal fin and posterior half, their countershading, and by its two almost equally sized dorsal fins. They are known to grow over 3.6 meters in length with the males and females maturing at different lengths, 2.21 meters and 2.2 meters, respectively (McGrouther, 2015). Females also mature significantly later at 9-10 years than their male counterparts, who mature at 6-7 years. Their diet consists of fish,
This article talks about what sharks does in order to survive and what are they capable of doing. According to the article, sharks do not sleep; but rather, they have rest periods throughout their day. Sharks are capable of hearing anything below 1000 Hertz and can also swim up to 20 mph. Sharks skeleton is made up of cartilage rather than bone. According to the article, cartilages are lighter than bones. What keep them from floating are their large livers. Sharks can gather and keep the air into their stomach to keep them from floating.
Next is that not all sharks are aggressive, majority of shark attack incident come from the great white, tiger and bull sharks, and interestingly, they are not always deliberately attack human, according to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), it is just like a cat or dog, they need to smell or lick us to recognize us, but for shark, not smell or lick, they do it with a test bite. Together with shark’s sharp teeth, we get our shark attack incidents. One more thing, similar to cartilage supplement, other body parts of shark are not necessary good for health, most of them contain higher concentration of
The eastern cottontail rabbit is a species of the genus Sylvilagus. The eastern cottontail rabbit just as its name suggest is commonly found in the eastern U.S., eastern Mexico, Central America, Southern Canada and the northernmost part of South America. Eastern cottontail rabbits prefer their habitat to be in an open grassy area with shrubs in the area to use as places to escape predators. Nests called forms are made by eastern cottontail rabbits to use as an area to give birth. The nests are only built by female eastern cottontails and are made using grass from the surrounding area and fur from the female rabbit. The diet of eastern cottontail rabbits vary depending on what is available to consume in the area. Eastern cottontail rabbits mainly eat grass, bark, twigs, seeds and sedge fruits. In order to get more nutritional value from what the rabbit had consumed they produce two different fecal pellets, one pellet is consumed and redigested. Many of the eastern cottontail's predators rely on them as a major source of food such as bobcats, weasels and coyotes. When being hunted, eastern cottontail rabbits run in a zigzag kind of pattern while speeding up to 29 km/h. Newborn eastern cottontail rabbits are born blind, deaf and they have a thin coat of hair, this means they are an altricial species and they are required to be taken care of for a certain amount of time. I believe that eastern cottontail rabbits are incredibly fascinating and that you should take time learning about
Great white sharks are extraordinary creatures. They have a massive diet, and their habitat can range from the surface of the water to 800 feet down and possibly more. These massive sharks can be mysterious in their own ways.
Sharks are one of the most feared carnivores in the sea. There are 365 species of of sharks in the sea as we know today. All sharks are carnivores. Most of them eat live fish, including other sharks. A shark's most common natural enemy is an another shark. Most sharks eat their prey whole, or they tear off large chunks of the bodies. Some sharks crush their prey. Others take out small pieces off flesh from large fish. Sharks also feed on dead or dying animals. Sharks have the reputation of attacking human beings. But less than 100 shark attacks a year are reported throughout the world. Sharks are most common in warm seas and oceans. Whale sharks, are the largest shark known to man. Sharks are classified in the order
The black tip reef shark, is also known as the Carcharhinus Melanoperus gets its name from its pointed snout and black tips on the end of each fin. They are considered one of the most beautiful sharks in the whole ocean and are frequently seen by divers. Its average length is 1.9 meters and weighs about 130kg. They live on warm, shallow coral reefs in the pacific, indo and Mediterranean Sea with the deepest depth up to 80 meters. Their proffered water temperature is 15C -24C. These reef sharks are very social and will often be seen in packs or groups with a strong hierarchy system, although they are predators, when they come face to face with another predator they tend to become more shy and timid . Although these sharks are calm most of the time, when hungry they become athletic and energetic hunters, they have a great technique, to launch their whole body out of the surface of the water and roll up to 4 times before falling. They also have perfect pack hunting skills, and will herd a school of fish into the shallows and then feed on them, they can feed on small fish such as herring and sardines, they eat stingrays and smaller sharks. Females are able to reproduce without a male and can give birth up to 10 pups per year, each pup will usually hit maturity at age 4 and most sharks will live until age 13. Conflicts have happened between black tip reef sharks and humans before as we swim so close to them and their habitat, but the rates are exceedingly slow and these sharks would