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6ºA - 2010/2011
My favourite wild animal
My favourite wild
animal is the tiger. The
tigers have got
reddish-orange
to near-white fur
and dark vertical
stripes. They live
in eastern and
South Asia.
They eat
meat and they
are predators of
other animals. They are
very strong.
Tigers are territorial
and solitary animals. They
need a large
territory for
their preys.
They are in
danger of
extinction
because people
are destroying
their habitat.
Tigers live for
about 10–15 years in the
wild, but can live longer
than 20 years in captivity.
Afonso Soares Nº1 6ºA
At the wildlife park
Catarina: Hello, João. How are you?
João: I'm fine thanks. And you?
Catarina: I'm fine, too. Is 21st March a special day?
João: Yes, it is. It's the World Forestry Day.
Catarina: What's your favourite wild animal?
João: My favourite wild animal is the chimpanzee. And yours?
Catarina: My favourite animal is the panda. Do you like pandas?
João: Yes, I do, but I prefer the chimpanzees because they swing
from tree to tree. And you? Do you like chimpanzees?
Catarina: Yes, I do. But I prefer the pandas because they are sweet.
João: Do the pandas eat bamboo?
Catarina: Yes, they do.
João: The chimpanzees' habitat is the rain forests. They sleep in
trees and they eat plants, fruit and meat.
Catarina: Look at the information! The information says that there
are about forty chimpanzees and look at the photo, it's
beautiful!
João: The nature is very interesting, huh?
Catarina: Yes, I think so.
João: Tomorrow our class will have a field trip to the wildlife
park of Arrábida.
Catarina: That's an interesting field trip.
João: Oh, it's six o'clock. I must go home.
Catarina: Ok. Bye!
João: Goodbye!
Constança Elias nº8, 6ºA
My favourite wild animal is
the bald eagle. I like it because
I think it is beautiful, very
powerful and majestic. It is the
symbol of the United States of
America. It’s black in the body
and in the wings and it’s white in
the head, in the neck and in the
tail. It has got a very strong
and long beak and very strong
claws. It has got a very good
eye and it flies very fast. The
length of the span of eagles’ wings is almost two meters.
It lives in coniferous forests near the sea, rivers and
lakes in Alaska. It eats fish. It hunts the fish with its
claws and then it smashes
them and kills them with its
beak. Then it gives the food
to its young eagles. When the
young eagles are ready to fly
and hunt, their parents expel
them from the nest. The bald
eagle builds its nests in the
trees with small sticks.
Francisco Lucas N.º 14, 6.ºA
The Butterfly
The butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidopteres, which means “wings in scale”. The scales are coloured. They
measure about 3mm to 30cm. They can fly up to 20 km/h.
Most species are diurnal. They weight about 0,3g to 3g.
The butterflies have got two pairs of membranous
feathers. They’re pollinators of several species of plants.
The cycles of the butterflies are:
1) Egg - pre-larval phase
2) Larvae
3) Pupa – develops in cocoon
4) Imago - adulthood
Constança Elias nº8 6ºA
The chimpanzee is
a jungle animal. It
lives in the African
jungle or in the
savannah.
There are about 150.000 chimpanzees in the
world. They live in groups from 5 to 100 elements.
Chimpanzees can reach 1,60 m tall and weigh 70
kg. They eat fruit, flowers, birds and wasps.
They live for about sixty years.
They are very intelligent and they have many
characteristics in common with the man. The
chimpanzee is my favourite animal and I love it!
Francisco Madureira 6ºA
My favourite animals are foxes. Foxes are orange white in the
back and black on the muzzle. They’ve got short legs and long tail.
They live in the forest.
They eat meat: rabbits,
birds, small rodents, fish, eggs
and insects. They sometimes
eat some fruits.
They hunt in the evening
and at night. They run very fast. They live for about 10 years.
I like foxes because they are sneaky and agile.
Manuel Abreu, 6º A
Koalas belong to the class of the mammalians and
to the family of the marsupials.
They’re very rare. They exist only in the east part of Australia.
They have got long grey fur as a bear. They weight between 4 and 15 kg.
The koalas have got large sharp claws to assist with climbing tree trunks.
The koalas have five fingers and they are one of the few mammalians that
has fingerprints. Their fingerprints are similar to human fingerprints and it’s
quite difficult to distinguish between the two.
They spend the time on the trees and they sleep most part of the day.
Koalas walk on all four legs when they walk on the ground.
They are vegetarian and they eat only eucalyptus leafs. They don’t eat meat
or fruits. Their teeth are adapted to their herbivorous diet. They have sharp
incisors to clip leaves at the front of the mouth.
The word koala means “that doesn’t drink” in the aborigine language and
that’s true because they don’t drink any water.
Guilherme Verschoor 6ºA nº17
The hedgehog is a big insectivore with its back covered with sharp
spines.
When it feels danger it curls up, exposing the thorns as defense
weapons.
Its fur is dark, from brown to black. It weighs about 700 grams
and measures about 18 to 20 centimetres.
It is a solitary animal and we can find it at night.
The hedgehogs eat
invertebrates that live in the
soil: earthworms, beetles,
caterpillars, spiders and slugs.
It also eats eggs and small
vertebrates - frogs, lizards,
rodents and young birds.
The hedgehog hibernates
from November to March.
It lives for about 3 years but some hedgehogs sometimes live for
7 to 10 years.
The main causes of mortality are starvation during hibernation and
predation. Its main predators are foxes, badgers and even dogs.
Source: http://www.bragancanet.pt/patrimonio/faunaourico.htm
Mariana Gonzalez ,Nº23-6ºA
Toucans are very beautiful
birds. They are black and white
and they have an orange and
yellow beautiful beak. The beak
is big and hollow.
They live in the forests of
Central and South America.
They eat fruit, insects and small
preys, like lizards. They also eat birds’ eggs.
They can be 55 cm in length. They fly from
tree to tree to find food. They also rest in the
trees.
Toucans live for about 20 years.
Ana Marta Diniz, 6ºA, nº4
PARROTS My favourite animals are parrots. Parrots are
very colourful: red, yellow, blue and green. They
have got strong legs and clawed feet.
They live in rain forests in South America and
Australia. They eat seeds, nuts, fruit, buds and
other plant material. They fly very fast.
Parrots live for about 80 years. Some species can
reproduce the sounds of the human speech.
I like parrots because they´re beautiful.
Ana Carolina Azevedo Nº2, 6ºA
The Beaver The beaver is a wild animal
that lives in rivers and lakes
near forests. Beavers are
known for building dams on
rivers using trees
They are brown and grey
but there are others that are black or white. Their height doesn’t
exceed 30 cm. Their weight ranges from 20 to 30 kg.
They have got big teeth, very
strong and long, necessary to eat
the bark of the trees.
They eat fish, birds and small
mammals. They also feed on tree
bark and leaves but they can also eat lettuce, carrots and objects
they gnaw.
Beavers live up to 24 years of
age in the wild.
Teresa Lagariço 6ºA nº28
The Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest is a
tropical forest in South America.
This forest is extended for seven
million square kilometres. The
majority of the forest is in Brazil, but
it is also in Peru, Colombia,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Guyana, Suriname and French
Guiana.
In this forest there is an incredible biodiversity: 2.5 million insect species, tens of
thousands of plants, 2,000 birds and mammals, 3,000 fish species, etc. One in ten
species in the world lives in Amazonia and
one in five of all birds in the world live in this
rainforest. We can name some of the many
animals that live there: black caiman, jaguar,
cougar, anaconda, scarlet macaw....
The Amazon rainforest is in the basin of a
river, the Amazon River and this river is
widespread along 6,800 km. It’s the biggest
drainage basin in the world. This big river receives the
water from many smaller rivers, including Marañón,
Japurá, Rio Negro, Ucayali, Purus, Madeira, Xingu and
Tocantin. In the river and its margins there are a lot of
animals, too: electric eels, piranha, poison dart frogs,
vampire bats and rabies.
The Amazon Rainforest and its river are very
beautiful and amazing.
Pedro Mello Vieira nº26 6ºA
Wild lions live in sub-Saharan
Africa and in the forests in Asia.
They are in danger of extinction.
They hunt large mammals such
as antelopes, zebras, wildebeests,
impalas, warthogs, etc.
The lion is nicknamed the "king of
beasts" because it is - under
natural and normal conditions - on
top of the food chain. The adult
male lion has got a mane; it makes the lion appear larger and
intimidating.
Lions live for about 10-14 years in nature, but males rarely
live more than ten years, because they suffer serious pain in
combat sustained in fighting.
Gonçalo Carlos
6º A- Nº 14
The Pandas
Pandas are black and white. They live in
the jungle. They eat bamboo, and they also
eat fish.
They are similar in the appearance with
the bears. The pandas can measure up to
1.5m and weight about 140 kg. Some years
ago they almost disappeared, but now
people are protecting them.
Joana Ralão 6º A, nº19
The Woodpecker
The woodpecker is a
bird of the order
Piciformes, family Picidae.
It has got small to
medium size and
coloured feathers and the
males have got a red
crest.
They live in the forest
where they make their nests. Its eggs, four to
five, are hatched by the male and the female
during 20 days.
They eat larvae and insects that they find on
the trunks of the trees. The woodpecker can
give 100 pecks per minute in a tree.
Constança Elias 6ºA