AQUATIC LIFE Seals Cold Climate Arctic Antarctic Layer

AQUATIC LIFE

Seals • Cold Climate: Arctic & Antarctic • Layer of fat: blubber • Whiskers: detect prey in dark water • Sleep in water but also like land • Eat aquatic animals • Leopard seals eat other species of seals

Octopus Blanket Octopus • Fast Learners • They can solve problems, as when they remove a plug or unscrew a lid to get prey from a container. • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=CYK 2 i 2 t. R 7 g. U • 3 hearts • Jet ink to confuse predators – dulls their sight and smell

Manatees • When swimming, needs air every 3 -4 mins • Shallow, slow moving water • Somersaults, rolls, swim upside down • Eat water grasses, weeds, algae • If their teeth fall out, grow new ones • Pirates used to think they were mermaids • Fresh water – algae • Salt water - barnacles

Can grow to be one ton! (Behemoth) Sea Turtles • Leatherback sea turtles can travel more than 10, 000 miles every year: • For sea turtles, home is where the heart is. When it's time to lay their eggs, female sea turtles return to the same nesting grounds where they were born • 1 hatchling in 1, 000 will live • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=t 1 k. Fieh Gh 9 s

Hippopotamus • • Name means: River Horse Found in: rivers, lakes, swamps Sweat a red oil that protects them from sun – myth blood One of the most dangerous animals in Africa

Starfish • No brain, no blood • Need salt water, not fresh • Can regenerate limbs – time Chocolate Chip Starfish

Great White Shark • No eyelids – roll eyes to protect • Can clear the water 2 meters • Born to fend for themselves • After a big meal – 3 months before need more

Seahorse • Eat almost all day long • Hold tails • Tails anchor them down • Bad swimmers • Eyes work separately – 1 front, one back • Crabs are their major threat

Dolphins • Carnivores • Blowhole on top of heads to breathe • Communicate by clicking and whistling • Very social – love humans & big groups

Platypus • Duck-billed, Beaver-like tail, lays eggs, has otter-like fur and webbed feet • No stomach (esophagus/small intestine) • Platypodes/platupuses • Only Australia Venom spur

Sea Otters • Built in pockets under arms • Teeth – strong enough to crunch clam shell • Eat 12 lbs of food a day – like us eating 37 pounds of food • One of only animals to use tools for food • Hold hands while sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other

A few more interesting facts: Seals love eating Octopus

Even land animals love the water sometimes, too!