Room 11 Blog

HORSES  ARE  USEFUL  AND  BEAUTIFUL  ANIMALS.   THEY  HAVE  BEEN  FRIENDS  TO  HUMAN  BEINGS  FOR  THOUSAND  OF  YEARS   HORSE  OWNERS  MEARE  THE  HEIGHT  OF  THEIR  HORSE  IN  HANDS  THE  TALLEST  STRONGEST  AND  HEAVIEST  HORSE  ARE  CALLED  DRAFT  HORSE.    MILLIONS  OF  YEARS  AGO  HORSE  WERENO  BIGGER  THAN A  SMALL  GOD/  EARY  PEOPLE  HUNTED  HORSE  AND  ATE  THEM.  NO  ONE  KNOWS  WHO  FIRST  TAMED  HORSE  AND  TRAINED  THEM  TO  CARRY  A  RIDER .  HORSE  ARE  FAMOUS  IN  STORIES  AND  IN  HISTORY.    PEGASUS  WAS  A  HORSE  WITH  WINGS  IN  OLD  GREEK  STORIES.  A  NEWBORN  HORSE  IS  CALLED  A  FOAL.  ITS  MOTHER  IS  CALLED  A  MARE.  A  FOALS  CAN  STAND  UP SHORTLY  AFTER  BIRTH.  SOME  RACE  HORSE  CAN  RUN  AS  FAST  AS  45  MILES  PER  HOUR  WHILE  CARRYING  A  RIDER.  MOST  HORSE  REACH  THEIR  FULL  SIZE  BY  THE  TIME  ARE  5  YEARS  OLD.

Horses are found all over the world.Horses can be very big but some can be very small.There are many different Breeds of Horses.There can be wild Horses and tame Horses.Horses are used for show jumping and racing and have changed a lot down through the years.For example millions of years ago Horses had four toes and were much smaller but now they have e hoof and are much bigger.Horses are a nice animal and are around for millions of years.I really like horses.

The African elephant is the biggest land animal in the world. It can grow up  4 meters  and weigh over 6 tons. That is the same weight as six cars. A blue whale is 25 times heavier than an elephant. If an elephant stood on a human being it not crush you. The elephant’s tusk helps it pick up food and eat it. Humans kill elephant’s for their tusks because it is made out of ivory but you’re banned. Ivory is very expensive.

Rabbits come from all around Europe.

Rabbits are small friendly animals.

Rabbits  are most likely gray.

Rabbits main food are grass and carrots.

Rabbits are land animals.

Rabbits are wild and home animals.

People kill rabbits to have food.

A boxer is called a boxer because sometimes if you push him away he swings his paw.

People usually keep boxers as toy dogs.

Boxers come from England.

Some boxers grow the same size as a Labrador.

Elephants are from India and Africa.  Elephants stay in herds. It is hard being an elepant. It has to walk for miles everyday. When they get leaves from a tree they use their trunks. Then the leaves go into their mouth.

The great white shark is the largest shark in the world.
A sharks bones ar made of  cartilage.
The average length of a great white is 16-17 meters long.
People think  shark eat you but they are as  afraid of you then you are of them.
The great white will only stay in warm waters.The great white has three layers of teeth.
There are thirty four types of  sharks.

The gorilla is a very endangered species.
There are about 650 left in the world.
Gorillas can weigh up to about 200kg.
Gorillas can live up to about 53 years in captivity and30 years in the wild.
Poachers have forced rangers to leave there homes or they would kill them.

The fox is a carnivore.
It is part of the dog family.
Both parents teach the young to hunt and fight for itself.
They eat chickens and their eggs,rabbits,young hares,brown rats,beetles,earthworms,eggs,mice,snails,birds,scraps from rubbish bins, even listed as a carnivore it will eat berries and fruit.

Tigers are the world’s largest cats.
The Siberian tiger is an endangered species.
They live in eastern Russia.
Tigers live alone and are powerful hunters.

The wild feral goat is closely related to the sheep.
The Irish name for a goat is a Gabhar Fia.
The male goats are usually called rams.
The goat supplies milk meat and skin.

In prides the females do most of the hunting and cub rearing.Usually all the lioness in the pride are related and give birth at the same time.Only male lions have manes.The darker the lions mane the older he is.A male lion marks the territory of his pride by spraying urine on three trunks and bushes chasing other. Lion cubs are born in litters of one to six.Their average weight at birth is 1 to 2 kilograms.Lions are members of the cat family.Prides can be as small as 3 and as big as 40 animals.Lions once roamed in Africa,southern Europe and parts of Asia. Today their primary habitats are in arrica and about 300 live in the Gir forest in India.over200’00lions used to roam the Africam continent as recently as 1975. The latest survey has found that the number has declined to approx 23100 lions.

Tasmanian Devils are carnivores.
They live up to about five years in the wild.
They weigh up to (4 to 12 kg).

Diet carnivore. group name pride.
Lions are the only cats that live in groups .
Female lions are the prides primary hunters.
They hunt antelope, zebras and wildebeest.
Lions are known for their courage.

The lion is part of the cat family.
It is a mammal and is a carnivore.
The female lion is the main hunter.
They live in groups called prides.
Only males have manes.
They are found in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lions are members of the cat family.
They live in groups called prides.
Only male lions have manes.
Female lions are the primary hunters.
They are found only in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

A cheetah is an interesting mammal.
It is the fastest land animal in the world.
It lives in south Africa.
It is a carnivore.
It is a member of the cat family.

The red panda is an endangered species from around the world.
The red panda is  a part of the bear even if it looks like a racoon.
Red pandas live in mountain trees on mountains in nepal and bagledesh.

All spitting cobras have fixed fangs for aiming at enemies 2m away.

Cobras try to stay as far away from humans whenever but when cornered they will attack.

The cheetah has a distinctive spotted coat.
The cheetah is a mammal and is a member of the cat family.
It is the world’s fastest land mammal.
Most wild cheetahs are found in eastern and southwestern Africa.