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The pangolin lives in Asia and Africa, depending on the species.They can be found in grasslands, forests, and in dry bush. It uses its toughclaws to help it build burrows that they live in. They eat mostly ants, larvae,and small insects, so it is a carnivore. It has a long tongue that it sticksout to lick up food. This animal actually does not have teeth, so it swallowssome stones to help it mush up its food. Other animals like the crocodile andsome bird species also do this. 

 They are shy and nocturnal animals, it is a pretty rareanimal and stays hidden. It is Very endangered due to a variety of reasons.It's Hunted for meat, its scales, and also it is sometimes used in traditionalmedicine. The pangolins predators include, Big cats, snakes, hyenas, and humansthat hunt. It protects itself by Curling up into a ball, and it’s strong scalesprotect it. It can also burrow into the ground. These pangolins  live alone, and use scents to mark their territories. 

 The males of this species are larger. The smallest of thespecies is the chinese pangolin, weighing 8 pounds and being a bit more than afoot long, and the largest is the giant pangolin, weighing 70 pounds and being4 feet long. The animal is brown, scaly, and has a snout, similar to that of anant-eater, since the animals are related. They can live up to 20 years, and canstart mating at 2 years of age. The scientific name for the pangolin ispholidota.

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Today, we will betalking about Brood X, also called Brood 10, which is a group of cicadas thatwill be emerging in North America this year, 2021.

First, what is sospecial about Brood 10, and what makes it different from other species ofcicadas? Usually, cicadas have life cycles that are 2 to 5 years long. They areunderground for most of their lives until the weather gets warm and adultcicadas emerge to breed. Brood 10 has a 17-year life cycle.

Brood 10 is justone group, however. There are around a dozen other broods, but Brood 10 will bethe one emerging this year. The last time this group emerged was in 2004, 17years ago. Brood 10 is part of a North American genus of cicadas, known asMagicicada. They are unique among cicadas since their life cycles are 13 or 17years long, which is much longer than the typical 2 to 5-year life cycles ofmost cicadas. Of the 3,000 species of cicadas, there are only 7 species ofthese so-called “periodical cicadas”.

No one reallyknows why Brood 10 and related species do this, but we do know how they manageto be consistent with their 17-year life cycle. Cicada nymphs live undergroundand they feed on the liquids from plant roots. Most cicadas will mature fasterand emerge more frequently. Additionally, they don’t emerge at the same time.Periodical cicadas, all mature at the same pace and therefore emerge at thesame time. They do this by counting the seasonal pulses of liquids that flowthrough the plant roots they feed on. Once they finish 13 or 17 cycles, theywait until the temperature is right and they emerge all at the same time.

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The Kinkajou is asmall and cute animal that is related to olingos and raccoons. They inhabitSouth American rainforests, and spend lots of time in the trees, which meansthey are arboreal. It uses its long tail to balance itself and hang from trees.The Kinkajou also has sharp claws to help them climb trees. The rainforestenvironment it lives in is great for it because the animal eats lots of fruitfrom trees, as well as honey. The Kinkajou has a good sense of smell and candetect movement well, which may help it find food.

Like a largemajority of small mammals, their predators include birds of prey, large snakes,foxed, big cats, and larger carnivorous animals. When they feel threatened theymay use their claws to harm them or run away. They are nocturnal so they sleepduring the day.Their body alone can get up to 20 inches, but their tail almostdoubles their size.

The Kinkajou has light brown fur, and a longtail. They can live 23 years when held in captivity. The animals live togetherin small groups, where they take care of eachother. The scientific name forKinkajou is potos flavus, but it is also known as the honey bear, because itsometimes eats honey. This species is also very important to the environment aswell, as they are pollinators. When they eat fruit and flowers, they take thepollen and spread it to other flowers.

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Today, we will betalking about death-feigning, and why do some animals do it?

First, what isdeath-feigning? It is a fancier way of saying that an animal is pretending tobe dead, usually so that they can escape a predator. There are many examples ofanimals doing this, and one of the most famous examples would be the Opossum.However, many other organisms do this as well, such as insects, frogs, andsnakes. Charles Darwin once recorded a beetle he had found had pretended to bedead for 23 minutes.

But why would ananimal do this? Wouldn’t it make them easier to catch if they’re pretending tobe dead? Sometimes, this is true. But in certain species, pretending to be deadmakes predators less likely to eat them. There are risks to eating an animalthat has been dead for too long, since bacteria and other diseases could befound in the carcass. This is similar to how humans usually throw out old andmoldy food instead of eating it.

When it feelsthreatened, the hognose snake will lay with its belly up, secrete a foulsmelling liquid, and sometimes spew blood from their mouth. This gives thepredators the sense that there is something wrong with it and that they shouldavoid eating it.

Another animal,the Fire-Bellied Toad, will also pretend to be dead when threatened. However,when it rolls onto its back, any predators looking for a meal will see thebright yellow-orange markings on the toad’s belly, and they will usually avoideating it because bright colors usually mean that an animal is poisonous.

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Duck-billed Platypus
The Duck billed platypus lives in EasternAustralia, and it inhabits freshwater streams and riverbanks. It has adapted toits environment with webbed feet, thick fur,  and a paddle like tail forswimming. Their tails also store fat incase they can’t go looking for food inthe winter. It is a carnivore so it eats a variety of meat and other animals suchas small fish, shrimps, insects, larvae, and worms. Their bill is verysensitive and  has receptors in it so they can detect prey and movement.
 The platypus is a nocturnal animal so itlooks for food during the night and is inactive during the day. The exactnumber of platypuses left in the wild is unknown, as they are not endangered,but their population is decreasing due to climate change, habitat destructionand other factors.  The platypuses predators include cats, birds, dogs,snakes, foxes, and also humans. They can protect themselves by swimming away,or if they are protecting themselves from others from their species, they mayuse their spur. The male platypuses are slightly larger and also have a spur onits inner leg, the female has this spur when it is younger but loses iteventually.
Most of them are around half a meter long. Theyhave brown fur, a flat paddle-like tail, and black feet and bill. This speciescan live up to 17 years and start mating at the age of 2. The scientific nameof platypus is Ornithorhynchus anantinus, the person who found it thought itwasn’t a real animal, and just another animal with a duck's beak put onto it.The name means flat footed duck like.
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Today, we willtalk about “Rat Island”, an island of the coast of Alaska, USA that shows thestrength of ecosystems and nature.

“Rat island”, wasan island that was accidentally introduced to rats, since rats weren’tnaturally found there. This was because of ships sailing to the area and alsopeople who stayed on the island during World War II. As a result, the invasivespecies spread its way through the island and people started to call it RatIsland. Rodents are very resilient, and because of this, they are verydangerous to natural ecosystems since they reproduce easily and are hard to getrid of. They easily adapted to their new habitat and quickly ruined theecosystem.

However, aconservation group was able to remove the rats from the island, and what’s interestingabout this is that the ecosystem on the island was able to heal and go back tonormal. The island, now renamed Hawadax island, was able to return to itsnatural state in just over ten years.

The problem withthe rats on the island was that they were predators, and would often eat eggsand chicks. This nearly wiped out the shorebird population, since so many eggsand chicks were being eaten. As a result, the populations of snails and seasnails that the shorebirds ate grew a lot and started killing off the kelp inthe ocean. So to reverse the effect, the conservation group removed all of therats in 2008, and were now able to watch the process of recovery on HawadaxIsland.

Once the rats wereonce, seabirds were able to repopulate and started eating snails again, helpingkelp to grow again in the waters surrounding Hawadax Island. Overall, thisstudy shows how destructive rats can be, and also how resilient naturalecosystems can be to heal so quickly.

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The Bald Uakari Monkey isvery noticeable, it has a bright pink face with no hair, resembling a mask, andlots of light brown fur on the rest of its body. The uakari monkey lives in theamazon river basin, where the climate is rainy and quite hot. Most of the timethey are in the trees, meaning they are arboreal. Most of the year the basin isflooded but when it isn’t they are able to go down and find food. They eat lotsof fruits, seeds, roots, plants and also insects, they forage during the day.
The Uakari Monkeys live in quite a safeenvironment, but they still need to be careful of snakes and large birds whomight eat their offspring.  The Uakaris communicate with sounds and theirtails. They can also make their hair stand up if they feel threatened. Likelots of other animals living near it, its habitat has been threatened bylogging, it is also is hunted sometimes. Females of this species can startmating at the age of 3, and the male at the age of 5 or 6.
One of its identifying features is its brightred face, the color comes from the blood underneath its face. They live ingroups of about 30, but can have more. The groups help each other find food andtake care of eachother.  The Uakari is quite small, it only weighs around7 pounds and can be up to half a meter long. The name for this animal comesfrom the people who live near it.
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Today, we will betalking about the black-footed ferret and how it might be saved from goingextinct.

The black-footed ferret doesn’t lookextraordinary compared to other types of ferrets. It’s mostly white and lightbrown, with black feet, a black tipped tail, and black mask on its face. Italso has a dark brown back. The black footed ferret is endangered, with onlyaround 500 of them left in the wild. Habitat loss, disease, and less food for theblack footed ferret to eat make it more difficult for the species to survive.Nowadays, humans step in to help the species, usually by vaccinating theferrets and also using insecticides to protect them from fleas.

However, a new solution for saving theblack-footed ferret now seems possible, since the black-footed ferret is nowthe first cloned endangered species native to North America. The black-footedferret was cloned, meaning that it has the same DNA as its parent. Normally,cloning is used to talk about the cells in a body duplicating as the bodygrows. But here, it means that there are two of the same species that areidentical.

The cloned ferret, who has been namedElizabeth Ann, was cloned from a black-footed ferret that died more than 30 yearsago. The cells from the ferret were frozen to keep them preserved, untilrecently. Last year, they were turned into embryos, which is an unborn baby. Acompany who specialized in cloning pets was able to do the same with theblack-footed ferret and grow the embryos in another species of ferret.Elizabeth Ann will live in a conservation center with her siblings, who werealso cloned. Scientists hope that in the future, they will be able to clone amale black-footed ferret and save the species from extinction.

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Today, we will betalking about Anglerfish, which is a group of around 210 rather unique lookingfish.

First, what is anAnglerfish? They are a group of rather bizarre looking fish that have amodified fin that sits on the top of their head. This modified fin has a fleshypiece of skin attached at the end, which looks like a bait a fisherman woulduse. This is where anglerfish get their name from. In english, the word anglermeans a fisherman who uses a fishing rod, which is what the anglerfish lookslike it is doing. This is because the fin on the top of its head looks like afishing rod, and works like one too. Other fish are attracted to the fin on thetop of the angler fish's head, thinking that they have found something to eat.Instead, the anglerfish is going to eat them! There are four different types ofanglerfish: frogfish, batfish, goosefish, and the deep-sea angler.

Batfish, which isone group of anglerfish, has a unique feature. One big difference betweenbatfish and other types of anglerfish is that the fishing rod shaped fin on thetop of its head is retractable, meaning it can be hidden when it’s not beingused.

When people thinkof anglerfish, they probably think of deep-sea anglers. These are by far themost recognizable group. Unlike other groups, they usually swim instead of walkalong the ocean floor, and only the females have the fishing rod shaped fin onthe top of their head. Additionally, the bait, which is the piece of skinattached to the end of the rod, usually glows because of the dark underwaterenvironment. In some species, the male anglerfish is parasitic, attaching andfusing to its female mate and eventually becoming totally dependent on thefemale to survive.

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Hello Welcome toWild suzhou, today i am talking about some interesting large sea animals

The largest clamis the giant clam. Giant clams live on the floor of Indian Ocean, SouthernParts of the Pacific Ocean, and waters around South Africa. They’re importantto the ecosystem because they are able to serve as shelter to other animals.The large animal can live up to 100 years, the oldest one  of  theirspecies is estimated to have been 500 years old, but it died in 2006. Theymostly live on algae that grows on them. The giant clams can grow to 4 feetlong or 1.2 meters.

The largest sharkis The Whale Shark, it’s habitat is warm oceans, especially near coasts. Unlikelots of other sharks, it doesn’t eat large animals. Its teeth act like filters,and it swims with it’s mouth open to collect microorganisms like krill,plankton, and fish eggs. Their lifespan is around 70 years. They can get up to33 feet, but have been recorded as even bigger.

The largestoctopus is the Giant Pacific Octopus, It lives in the Pacific ocean, hence thename. It eats crustaceans, fish, and even some smaller octopus’s. The youngeroctopuses eat dead animals sometimes. This species of octopus only lives 3-5years. They can camouflage from predators, which include sharks, seals, andsometimes eels. The average length of the Giant Pacific octopus is 17 feet or 5meters, But the largest one found was 30 feet long, which is close to 10meters.

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