Answers

Week Commencing 13/04/2020

Species 1: Manatee

1.What do I eat?

I am a herbivore and most of my diet is made up of different types of grass

2. Where do I live?

There are 3 different species of manatee, which is distinguished by where I live. The West Indian manatee ranges along the North American east coast from Florida to Brazil. The Amazonian manatee species inhabit the Amazon River and the African manatee swims along the west coast and rivers of Africa.

3. How large do I get?

I can grow up to 8-13 ft!

Species 2: Leopard

1.Am I diurnal or nocturnal?

I am mainly nocturnal

2. Where do I live?

I can be found in Africa and Asia, from the Middle Eastern nations to Russia, Korea, China, India and Malaysia

3. Do I like spending time on my own or in group?

I like spending time on my own as I am a solitary animal

Species 3: Hummingbird Hawkmoth

1.How big is my wingspan?

My wingspan is around two inches

2. Where do I live?

I spend the winter in Southern Europe and the summer in the U.K.

3. What do I like to eat?

I feed on the nectar of honeysuckle, red valerian and other flowers

Species 4: Dodo

1.What did I eat?

My diet included seeds, nuts, bulbs, roots and fallen fruit. I would also feed on palm fruit, shell fish and crabs

2. What Island did I live on?

I only lived on the island of Mauritius

3. When did I go extinct?

I went extinct in 1681

Species 5: Deer

1.What do I eat?

I am herbivorous, I only eat plants! This includes plants such as grass, bark, twigs, berries and young shoots

2. What do I use my antlers for?

I use my antlers for fighting with other males

3. How big can I grow up to?

I can grow up to 2 metres in length

Week Commencing 06/04/2020

Species 1: Atlantic salmon

1.What do I eat?

I eat insects, invertebrates and plankton when I am young

2. What do you think I find on my journey to the sea and back?

I swim out to the Atlantic into rich feeding grounds. I primarily feed on fish such as capelin, herring and sand eel.

3. How large do I get?

I can grow up to 28-30 inches after two years at sea.

Species 2: African elephant

1.How big do I grow up to?

I can grow up to 8-13 feet from shoulder to toe!

2. Why do I need to cover myself in mud and dust (apart from it being fun!)?  

I cover myself in mud as it acts as a natural sun cream and stops me from getting burnt

3. What is the name of a female elephant that leads a group of elephants?

She is called a Matriarch

Species 3: Tardigrade

1.How big am I?

I range from 0.3 to 0.55 mm in length, although the largest species may reach 1.2mm

2. Where do I live?

I can be found in almost everywhere on earth. I am often found on lichens and mosses because that’s where I like the most

3. What do I like to eat?

I feed on plant and animal cells. Some of us are known to eat entire live organisms (microbes of course) such as rotifers.

Species 4: Velociraptor

1.What did I eat?

I was a carnivore that hunted and scavenged for food. I spent a lot of time eating small things which included reptiles, amphibians, insects, small dinosaurs and mammals

2. When did I live on the earth?

Fossils of me have been found in the Gobi Desert

3. Where was my first fossil found?

My first fossil was found in Mongolia in 1924!

Species 5: Indian Hornbill

1.What do I eat?

I love to eat fruit! My diet mainly consists of fruit, insects and small mammals  

2. Which countries do I live in?

I can be found in the forest of India, Bhutan, Mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra and North eastern region of India!

3. How big can I grow?

I grow up to 95-120cm!

Week commencing 30/03/2020

Species 1: Great Hammerhead Shark

1.Where do I live?

I can be found worldwide in tropical waters (warm waters that are 68 degrees or higher)

2. What do I eat?

I am entirely carnivorous, and I like to feed on prey at the seafloors such as stingrays, octopus and squid and other sharks

3. Where do I like to hang out? The coast or deep ocean?

I can be found in coastal waters

Species 2: Giraffe

1.Which country do I live in?

I actually live in several countries across the continent of Africa such as Kenya and South Africa.

2. What are the actual names of the ‘horn’ like structures on my head?

They are called ossicones and both male and female giraffes have them. Males use these for ‘necking’, which is how giraffes fight!  

3. What are a group of giraffes called?

A tower of giraffes!

Species 3: Shoebill bird

1.Where do I live?

I can be found in freshwater swamps of central tropical Africa, from southern Sudan through parts of eastern Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, western Tanzania and northern Zambia

2. What do I like to eat?

I am largely piscivorous, which means that I mainly eat fish!

3. How big can I grow to?

I am a tall bird and I can grow up to 140 cm (43 to 55 inches) tall.

Species 4: Tyrannosaurus Rex

1.What did I eat?

I was carnivorous which meant that I only ate meat

2. How big was I when I was fully grown?

I grew to 13m (42ft) in length and 4m (13ft) at the hip and could weigh up to 7 tonnes!

3. In what time period did I live on the Earth

I lived on earth during the Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago!

Species 5: Blue iguana

1.What do I eat?

I am herbivorous which means that I only eat plants

2. How big can I grow up to?

I am the largest native land mammal on Grand Cayman and my length from nose-to-tail is 5ft (1.5m)!

3. Where is the Grand Cayman?

Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands, and is located in the Carribbean

Week Commencing 23/03/2020

Species 1: Axolotl

1.Where do I live?

In Mexico, and I am only found in freshwaters

2. What do I eat?

I am carnivorous, and I eat small prey such as worms, insects and small fish in the wild

3. How can you help me and my friends?

Reduce pollution in the waters to provide me with suitable habitat

Species 2: Tarsier

1.Which country do I live in?

I can now only be found on islands in south-east Asia

2. What do I eat?

I am the only primate that is just carnivorous, eating insects but sometimes eat birds and snakes

3. How big am I when I am fully grown?

Between 9.7cm to 13.2cm, and did you know that my eyes make up almost half of my body!

Species 3: Pangolin

1.Where do I live?

I am found in both Africa and Asia

2. What do I like to eat?

I love eating ants and termites and use my long tongue to catch them

3. Do I like to come out at night (nocturnal) or the day (diurnal)?”

I am nocturnal and like to spend most of the daytime sleeping, curled up in a ball

Species 4: Triceratops

1.What did I eat?

I was herbivorous, meaning I ate plants

2. How big was I when I was fully grown?

I was estimated to have reached about 7.9 to 9 metres in length, 2.9 to 3.0m in heights and 6.1 to 12.0 tonnes in weight

3. Where was my first fossil found?

By George Lyman Cannon near Denver, Colorado in the spring of 1887

Species 5: Sloth

1.How often do I eat?

I eat at night, foraging for different foods including leave fruits and shoots

2. Which way does my fur grow?

I am the only mammal whose hair grows in the opposite direction from the hair of other mammals, my hair grows upwards to help with my upside-down life!

3. How long do I sleep a day?

Sometimes I can sleep between 15 and 20 hours a day!