Saolas By Kimberly Oey
2nd December 2015
The Saolas Appearence.
Saolas are from the antelope family. They have the colour black, white, red and brown for their fur. Saolas camouflage into trees. A saola can grow up to 80kg -100kg in mass and 150cm – 200cm in length. The saola has smooth horns that can grow up to 50cm long that can split a small tree or sapling by wedging the saolas horns around it and turning the saola’s head. They also have thick skin it helps not to get cuts easily.
Prey And Predators.
Saolas live in Vietnam in mountains which are close to the Lao’s border. The mountains are usually warm, moist and dense with many trees and plants. The saolas are in a great habitat because their plant eaters, they eat lots of leaves, grass and herbs plus they have a very big appetite. As an animal they would definitely have predators and for saolas their predators could be known as the tiger, crocodiles and humans.
Offspring.
As saolas are mammals like as humans, they give birth to their babies, also known as a cup, on February to March. But only can give birth to a single baby. They also let the cup suckle for milk with the four nipples they have under their underside.
Adaptations.
Saolas usually stay in groups because it helps them when predators come it would be easier to get away from any injuries or the saola to be its food. Other than staying in groups saolas also have changes they make when the temperature changes from cold to hot or hot to cold and where they move is up and down the mountain for as it would be hot they would go to the top and if it would be cold they would go to the bottom.
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Critally Endangered.
Now that you know about the saola and how amazing it is thed sad truth is that it is critically endangered which comes down to the number there is left which is 1 and that 1 is going to get extinct, the reason of this would be us humans cutting down trees for malls, houses and buildings. We are building into their habitats leaving them in our side of buildings and they do not know where to go and what do.
Now I finish with an interesting fact, thank you for reading.
Did you know that saolas can be called in six different names including Saola which is the ost used, the Asian unicorn, the pseudoryx nghetinhesis, Vu Quang ox, Asian Bio Cowl and Vu Quang Bovid.
Links to websites I used:
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/adapt.html
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/endangered/