Transcript File - Mrs. Kewriga

TOP TEN
MOST
DEFORMED
ANIMALS
BY: ETHAN NH, VIGGY
V, AND ADAM G
10. HAGFISH
Hagfish can literally tie themselves into a knot to
rid themselves of excess slime. It needs some of the
slime to make sure it doesn’t get attacked. The slime has a
repelling smell. The Hagfish spends most of it’s time
buried in the sand looking for something like a dead
carcass or crustacean to eat. Once it latches onto a
carcass it ties a knot with it’s body and puts it over it’s
head to stay on after dislodging its toothless mouth to eat
it’s mouth full.
9.STAR-NOSED MOLE
the star-nosed mole has 22 pink tentacles that
have a total of 25,000 receptors to pick up it’s prey. The
star-nosed mole eats fish , worms, insects, etc. In the
winter star-nosed mole’s tails grow 4 times the normal
size because it stores their food.
8.SUN BEAR
The Sun Bear is the smallest bear in the bear
family. You can find sun bears in southern china, eastern
India, and as far south as Indonesia. Sun bears can also
be called the “Malayan Sun Bear”. Their tongue's are
used to take the honey out of bee’s nests giving them
another nickname the “Honey Bear”.
7. ANGORA RABBIT
English Angora rabbits are the smallest breed of
rabbit in the world. English Angora rabbit are 5-7 pounds
and only live up to 7 years. Their fur isn’t really fur but
wool. They can be golden, smoke,(A fancy gray) blue and
black. Their origin is from Turkey.( A country in Europe)
6. TAPIR
Tapir’s are shaped like pigs. They live in south
America, southeast Asia, and central America . There are
4 species of tapirs and sadly there all endangered or
vulnerable. Some of their closest relatives are horses and
rhinoceroses.
5. AXOLOTL
The Axolotl’s scientific name is the Ambysform
Mexicanum. The Australians and New Zealanders call
the Axolotl, the Mexican Walking fish. Axolotls are
salamanders and that means they are amphibians, not
fish. They are carnivores and eat their food whole. They
don’t have biting teeth. They eat fish that carry diseases
and are sometimes infected with parasites.
4.AYE-AYE
Some Aye-Aye’s are nocturnal, these ones use their sharp
claws to cling to their homes in the tree top. Aye-Ayes are only
found in Madagascar and are very rare. They are closely related to
chimpanzees, Apes, and humans. Aye-Ayes have tails longer then
their body. Aye- Ayes have a possible big toes.
3.NARWHAL
Narwhals have a highly modified tooth that is ten
feet long and is called the “ corpse whale” because their
gray-white body resembles a drowned human. They use
their tusk ( tooth ) as a sensory organ. So the narwhal
dueling myth is a hoax! The tusks sense, changes air
pressure, thus the big tusk is a barometer! The dueling
and spearing myths are NOT TRUE!
2.DUMBO OCTOPUS
The Dumbo octopus is mostly unknown, it is a new
animal to be discovered but its body is soft to fit in small places,
its tentacles are webbed almost together to eat snails, sea worms,
and skin that look like Dumbo the elephant. The octopuses' ears
are used like Rutter's to steer.
1. BLOB FISH
There is not much known about the Blob fish
because of its rarity. The Blob fish feeds on carcasses:
like crabs, dead whales, or anything that floats its way in
very deep water ( around 2,000-3,900). It has no muscle
what so ever and is pretty much is a gelatinous blob
fish!!!
SOURCES
 Divboo.info
 Nationalgeographic.com
 Oceana.org
 Discovery.com
 Dolphincommunicationproject.org/narwhal
 Dolphincommunicationproject.org/Dumbo octopus
 Axolotl.org
THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From, Ethan,
Viggy, and
Adam