Animlas from Sweden

Thank you all our friends from Sweden for your animal projects. We were excited to notice that we share an animal with you. We also have the Lynx in our counrty, but we call it the Rooikat(Red cat) or the Caracal. It does not have such a fluffy coat here because it is hotter here. We also have otters in some rivers and the ocean.
We have never seen the Wolverine before except in the movie X-men! It was very interesting!

I am bringing posters of all our projects with me when I come to visit, I will see you all soon.
Liz Louw

Porcupines

Description

Porcupines are 35cm tall and their length is 90cm.They weigh 18kg.Their are heavily built with long black and white quills (spikes) from their shoulders to their tail. They have a very short, flat tail.


Habitat


* Porcupines live in burrows, caves or crevices in rocks. They live in southern Africa. A porcupine can climb trees that are 60 to 70 feet high to reach the young leaves.


Eating Habits


¤ Porcupines are vegetarians, feeding on leaves, twigs, green plants and bark. During cold winter months, porcupines exist entirely on twigs and bark.






Interesting Facts


Porcupines possess upwards of 30, 000 quills, which are spaced closely together in between dark, course fur. Quills are 3-inches long and black in colour, with bright yellowish tips. Porcupines has five 5 toes on the back feet and 4 toes on the front. Their hind feet have long, curved claws and thick pads, which leave distinctive markings. The porcupine has two distinct front teeth, which are used for gnawing. The two teeth continuously grow through out the course of the porcupine’s life.






By Michaela O’Hare

Elephant shrew

Elephant Shrew

Elephant Shrew What they look like: Elephant-shrews are more closely related to aardvarks, sea cows, and elephants than they are to shrews. They have long, furry noses. An Elephant-Shrew has a dark head, a light brown neck, darkish stomach and a dark backside.

Habitat: Elephant-shrews live in South African forests, Desert, boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa and also thick forests. North African Elephant-Shrew’s, remain in the semi-arid, mountainous country in the far north-west of the continent of Africa.






Eating Habits: Elephant-shrews eat mainly invertebrates, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and earthworms. An elephant-shrew uses its long nose to find prey and uses its tongue to flick small food into its mouth, much like an anteater.






Interesting Fact:Elephant shrews are not actuly shrews. Recent evidence suggests that they are more related to a group of African mammals that includes hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, aardvarks, golden moles, and tenrecs.
By Brenton Gr 5

Wild Dogs

AFRICAN WILD DOG

DESCRIPTION: THEY HAVE BIG EARS AND HAVE DIFFERENT COLOUR FUR, THEY ARE THE SAME SIZE AS A LABRADOR.


HABITAT: THEY ENJOY OPEN GRASSLANDS TO SNEAK UP ON THERE PRAY.


EATING HABITS: THEY REALY LOVE TO EAT MEAT…..INFACT THEY ARE CARNIVORES (THEY ONLY EAT MEAT)THEY EAT MEAT LIKE BUFFALO,HARES,AND ANTELOPES(THEY HUNT AND LIVE IN PACKS MACKING IT EASY TO TAKE DOWN LARGER PRAY).


DID YOU KNOW?????


THEY CAN RUN UP TO 50 KM FOR UP TO 300 METERS.


THE FEMALES LOOK AFTER THE YOUNG.


By Madiba Gr 6

Hippo

HIPPO

Description: The hippo is the most dangerous animal in south Africa. They weigh [2630 kg]. They have no fur very little hair and a large barrel shaped body


Habitat:


Rivers and Lakes, not necessarily very deep, with pools of slow moving water and banks with good quality grazing, are the ideal conditions for Hippopotamuses.


Habits: hippos live


in herds of up to 40 individuals, consisting bull, a number of cows and their young. of one adult


Territorial fights amongst Hippos, are vicious and very often fatal. There are very few adult Hippo bulls without scars.






During the day they stay in their pools or sand banks. At night they leave the water and look for their feeding grounds, normally using always the same route.


They extremely aggressive and unpredictable animals. Very often charging other animals, passing boats and even Men.


Hippos can weigh up to 1500 Kg. and their life-span is about 50 years.


diet


Hippos are grazers, preferring short grasses

By Xandria Gr 5

Kudu

KUDU

Description


They are 150 centimetres Tall at their shoulders. They are reddish-brown to a dark blue-grey color. they have 4 to 10 upright stripes on it’s sides. The male has spiral horns up to 1.5 Metres long .


Where it lives


They live in the grassy areas of southern and eastern Africa. The Male kudus sometimes form small bachelor groups but they mostly live alone.


What it eats


Kudus eat grass and plant shoots.


Flash Fact


They can weigh up to 270 kilograms


What I used


World book j.k.11,www.Kalahari-Trophy-hunting.com


Reproduction


Kudu males are sexually mature at three years and first breed at six years, while females first calve at two to three years. Prime bulls develop massive neck muscles during the mating season due to their fighting, thrashing of bushes and digging up of soil to display their dominance to females.


When a bull has access to females, he checks the females’ reproductive condition by sniffing and flehmen of her urine and genitals.


As a female comes into heat, the dominant bull will mate only once with her since he chooses the best time for conception from the smell of her urine.


By Ester Botha

Hyena

Spotted Hyena

By Anke K


Description


Hyenas are dog-like animals with a strange body. Their front legs are longer then their back legs. They have dark brown spots on their coats. The hair on their body is short.


Habitat


Spotted hyenas live mainly in the savannah and they also live in some rainforests.


Eating habits


Hyenas eat mainly meat. They also steal food from lions, leopards and cheetahs.


Interesting facts


Spotted hyenas are the largest of the hyena family. They are also the noisiest.

Gemsbok

Description


It has a fawn brown coat with a white belly,a black mane &tail and white markings on it’s head.It’s horns grows straight and over a metre long.


Habitat


The Gemsbok lives in the semi-desert grasslands of the southern half of Africa.


Eating Habits


Only grass and fruit.It does not eat meat.


Interesting Facts


The Gemsbok also has a number of special features that helps it to conserve water.They survive by getting water from fruits and vegetables and can withstand temperatures ranging up to 45 degrees Celsius . They spend most of the day inactive and in the shade.


By Mareli

African Civet

Description: The civet has a long fluffy tail. It also has a slender body. Some civets have stripes or spots some have both. Civets also have long snouts.


Habitat: civets live in forests, deserts and savannahs. Civets also live in  Madagascar, Asia and Europe.


Eating habits: Some civets are carnivores and eat small birds, lizards and all small animals. Others are omnivores and eat fruit.


Did you know??? The civet is part of the dwarf mongoose and the genet family. Civets also live alone in the wild.

By Tyler Reynolds in Gr 6

Lynx

The lynx is very shy, but it's a pretty common animal in Sweden.

It looks like a big cat, but the lynx has got tufts on their ears.

It doesn't happen that often that a human meet a lynx.

The lynx fur is beige with brown spots, and on the stomach it's white.

The lynx tail is short and it's black.

It often lives in our mountain/forest regions.

On the winter the lynx eats rabbits and roedeers, and on the summer it eats birds and small rodents.

Because of their tufts on their ears, they can hear better. They have the best hearing of all cat-animals.

by: Emelie, Elsa, Jacob B, Daniel T and Nathalie B

Wolf by Ellen, Gustav, Paula and Victor T-L

Hi!

Wolfs has a dog look.
The wolfs weight is about 45-50 kg.
Height at the withers is about 80-90 cm.
It is greyish-yellow, white and dark on the back. 2008 there was about 250 wolfs in skandinavia.
Wolfs eat venison, moose, beever, badger and grouse. When the wolf is about 8-10 weeks old they get to move more freely. A wolfpack consists of one female and one male and theirs puppies. It`s usually the case that the puppies leaves their parents when they are about one or two years old, but sometimes the puppies can stay one more year.

Common seal

  The Common seal has a smooth body with two backfins and two little fins like arms . They have a nose they can close. They live in nordic and middle seas. They are about ten to fifteen thousend seals in the Swedish oceans. They live near stones and reefs, and far away from land.

They eat almost only fish, they eat about four kg of fish per day. They eat these fishes: cod, herring and sand-eel. The special with the Common seal is that they can dive down to twohundred meters.

/ By Jacob S, Daniel L, Harald and Robin.

Wolverine

Wolverine is a predator. It looks like a small bear with a big tail. The wolverine deliver their babies in the snow. They often get 2-3 babies and they mate between april and june.

The wolverine can run up to six miles without rest. It can live until they are about 12 years in the wild but in a zoo they can live until they are about 17 years old.
The wolverine is 70-85 centimetres long, a male weighs 18 kilograms and a female weighs 13 kilograms.
In Latin the wolverine is called Gulo gulo.


By: Olivia, Dani, Fredrik and Alexander

Otter on Skansen

The otter has a long and rough body. The otter has web on their toes and they lives in water.

You can find the otter in Skandinavia. It does'nt say how many otters there are in Sweden but we know that the otters became sacred in Sweden in 1968.

The otters is a mustelid and are related to the wolverine and the badger.

The otter is very shy and can hide very well. The otters can be six years old in the wild but they can be up to 15 years old on a Zoo!

By: Amelia, Carolina, Niklas and Lucas

Wild Boars

 

Wild boar

The wild boar eats roots, plants, acorns and potatoes but also snails, worms and insects. The wild boar is an omnivorous.
The wild boars fur is completely black-brown when it’s adult. But when it’s a kid, it’s like orange with black-brown stripes on the back and a white stomach.
The wild boar live in a forest-environment.
The wild boar live in the southern Sweden.
The wild boar search in the soil after roots.


By: My, Jakob H-H, Christopher and Rebecca

Grey Seals

The Grey Seal is the largest seal in  Sweden. The male weighs 220 kilo and the female weighs 120 kilo.
The Grey Seal can be under water in 30 minutes and dive to 200 meters deep.
The Grey Seals eat fish, the fur is greay and brown and the fin look like someone has divided it into two.
The Grey Seals must be in the water but it lives on land to. The Grey Seal live almost everywere in Sweden.

Written by Nathalie k
pictures by Vikor S, Lucas and Linn.

Me and my friends take the bike to our soccer training, when it's winter we take the bus.

When i take a shower i always turn of the water when i wash my hair.




//Daniel T

Olivia

I airdry my clothes in a drying cupboard instead of drying them in the dryer

Instead of taking a long shower I just shower for four minutes.

/Olivia

Rebecca

Instead of taking standby-mode I turn off the DVD-player.

Instead of taking a bath I take a short shower, that saves a lot of water.

In my family we have a sailboat, and that's better for the environment instead of a motorboat.

When I and my friends are going somewhere we often take the bike instead of the car, and if we are going to go shopping we are taking the bus instead of the car which is better for the environment.

At Skansen you can find different kind of waste-bins like: plastic waste, battery waste and more. On this picture; Carolina throws some paper.

By: Rebecca

By My

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I have curtains in front of my windows to keep it warm.

I give away my old clotes to other people.

I let my clotes wind dry.

I turn the light of in the rooms I don´t use.

I go to school every morning.

I boil my water in my kettle before I start to cook.

I fill my dishwasher completly.

Jakob and Alex

Jakob is doing his homework instead of watching TV. He saves energy.

Alex takes the kickbike to the school instead of going by car.

Water by Nathalie Kalldal

While I brush my theeth, I turn of the water so I do no waste.

We have a soda streamer so we dont have to by bottles.

During the day I usually take my plug out of my tape recorder



// Nathalie Kalldal

Carolina

Carolina:

My family have done much for the environment this year, we have remade our kitchen so now we only have things thats good for the environment.

On the picture there is ecological milk.

We have also replaced all our lamps with low energy lamps.

Before I leave for school I am turning off all the lamps and try to put out as many electrical things a possible.

I'm always trying to walk to school but it's not always that easy because i often hit the snooze button.

I always take out the thrash so that we wont have a pile of thrash at home.

Victor T-L

Instead of throwing things on the ground I throw it in the garbage bin.

Instead of taking the car to school I take my bike.

This summer I not going to waste away much water.

Jacob S

Use as little electricity as possible.

It`s better to sail than to go by motorboat.

Harald

I drink ecologic tea instead of

normal tea.