Animal Discovery
Leah Grant and Breshana Boyd
Star-Nosed Mole
Feeder/Eater: Endothermic or Cold-Blooded
Physical Features: Short limbs, front feet are paddle-like with long stout claws, pinkish-colored feet which posses dark scales
Adaptation: fur helps withstand water and nose helps take the place of its weak eyes
Fun facts: They are the fastest eating mammals, they can catch their prey in 230 millisecond, and can locate 13 separate dots in one second with their tentacles
Long-Beaked Echidna
Feeder/Eater: Omnivore
Physical Features: Spine-covered body, tubular, down-curved highly distinctively snout, and light-colored fur
Fun facts: They have a four headed penis, and they break there food down with the rough-roof of there mouths becuse they have no teeth
Giant Ground Pangolin
Feeder: Herbivore
Physical Features: Short powerful legs, curved claws for digging, elegant tapering bodies protected above by overlapping scales
Fun Fact: compromise 20% of their bodies weight and If caught, they will thrash about using their tail muscles. Because their scales have very sharp edges, they can slice the skin of a human or predator when they do this. They may also release the stinky fluid from their glands as a defense mechanism.