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- SIX LEGS
- undergo metamorphasis to become an adult starts as egg in or near water eggs laid singly or lined together in a group called a raft
- eggs must be in water to hatch and most eggs do not siurvive to love
- second stage of life(larval) feed on algae
- third stage of life id pupa
- adult misquitos feed on plant juices and nectar
- only femals require blood meal priot to despoiting eggs. blood is for nourishing eggs with protien
- most active at dawn or dusk, or hevily shaded areas
- act as vectors for malaria
- Imorpant in many wildlife and fish food chains.
- Antennae indicates sex
- males lives only a few eeks, females a few months
- control methods - protective clothing, screening, reppellants
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- BECAUSE OF WHITE HEAD CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR BALD EAGLE
- their large nests are explanded on every year bult in tsll dead trees. and will use man made structures for nest platforms
- lay three eggs
- important adaption: foot is rough texured to grip slippery fish , feed exclusively on fish
- the only hawk to grab with two toes in and front in and back, instead of three infront and one in back
- DDT chemical that get in fish, and end up in osprey, eggshell thinning
- DDT banned, osprey recovering
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| RIVER OTTER(mustelid family-skunks, weasles) |
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- body is streamlined
- diet-crustaceans, crayfish, and fish
- live in dens as a family unit
- dens can be hollow log, or abanded burrows of other animals, in bank
- MATE FOR LIFE, both parents assist in caring for young
- breeding happens in April or May
- Stay with parentals for a year then dsperse
- litter size of two to three
- otters are aquatic animals, but have to be taught how to swim
- ADAPTIONS FOR AN AQUATIC LIFE-while swimming under water their heart rate slows to conserve oxygen and flaps of skin cover nostrils and ears to kep water out. Can stay underwater three to four minutes straight skin never gets wet because of very think hair
- whiskers detect movement
- mark territories with scent posts ex: dung posts also used as toilet
- Qualits of their fur is rated 100% on scale, making it a target for hunters
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| WHITE TAILED DEER(best animals ever) |
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- can be found in canada, to South America
- diet consists of new growth twigs, grasses, fruits, and acorns.
- Have four stomachs. Food is regurgitated from this stomach an re-chewed. This process is known as rumination, and the act is chewing a cud. The fourth stomach, the abomasum, is the only true stomach and has a lining which allows for nutritional uptake.
- Site fidelity-remain in same area for long period of time Movements actually form trails in habitat
- feed in night, and during extreme heat
- mate with many different partners, buck very territorial during rut season, mark yterritroy with urination and scraping of trees
- peak breeding time is from July through February
- reach their sexy groove between one or two years of age, before wanting to get it on
- travel in gender specific groups
- IMPACTS ON HUMANS- most popular games species in North America. High density of deer populations can negatively affect vegative, and can even eradicate vegatation
- can effect the economyu of farmers, and states pay millions of dollars for compensation
- can transmit diseases to livestock
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- most successful naturalized large mammal in the US
- OMNIVORES
- no sweat glands
- feed mostly at night, live close to water or mud, mostly found in wetlands, but are adaptable to many environments
- roam in group constisting of sows and their young
- neither sex is territorial, breed year around, sows have one or two litters a year
- litters have 5-12 piglet, infant mortality low
- carry pseudorabies disease, witch can harm lovestock and humans, and carry manay parasites
- damage crops
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