Thursday, March 1, 2012

Animal Architects


This week, we have been learning all about animals that can create their own homes.  Please share at least two interesting things that you have learned this week about these unique animals. 

23 comments:

skyler said...

prairie dogs,
they only buld 3 holes 1 of themis to exscape.
they run really fast.

B4 said...

I learned that praeie dogs some times build bathrooms.I also learned that praeie dogs wiegh two to three pounds.

a13 said...

I have two facts about Bald Eagles.

1.there is a nest that is 9 1/2 ft.
wide and 20 ft. deep!

2.thier nests are the biggest nests
in the bird world!

kendra999999999999999 said...

My animal is a saint bowerbird
here are 2 intresting facts i lernd they love blue and if a female likes the nest she moves in.

billy3 said...

The weaverbird makes its nest with leaves and after time those leaves turn brown.Also the weaverbird atrackts a feemale with its nest.

S14 said...

one thing about beavers is they have to build there own log. number two is that they have to naw trees down to build it.

KIKI5 said...

I picked the Weaverbird. Two interesting facts or that males attract females by building nice homes and that there are some typs of weaverbirds that live in colonys and can house up to 500 birds!

Joey 12 said...

Moths make they're own paper that they need to buld they're hives.They make the paper by scraping off bits of wood from fence posts old wood and dead trees.

dan 17 said...

My anmal is a harvester ant and I konw havrester ant are hrad woker's and they are kind of the same as termits.

Erik said...

the brid frist
gets alot of grass.then biulds it side to side.then itnwill be finisht then it will try to get girl

rybot said...

Parriotfish: it mask it's smell in a bubble and it makes the bubble with it's gills. It sleeps in the bubble to protect it's self from night hunters.

A1 said...

my animal is a pea crab
here are two facts it shares a home with other animals,it catches food while it goes

SERENA!#7 said...

My animal is the Beaver
it has a long long big tail
it makes its nest out of...
mud, twigs, grass, and sticks
its lodge is very hard to get
in for pretiters. Because its entrance is under the lodge.

cami2 said...

prairie dogs
1. prairie dogs make many enches so if predors attak they can go though the back way.

2. They many rooms and they even have a bathroom.

APpels 18 said...

the parrotfish can make a bubble with a speshil gland in its gills. a parrotfish sleeps in that bubble!

JH 11 said...

I chose beaver as my animal. the two interesting facts are that beavers build homes called lodges and that they have tunles inside their lodges.

J23 said...

The animal that I have is a beaver it builds dams in water its made out of twigs,mud, and stikes when the dam is in the water it is now a pound.The other thing is a beavers dam has a hole enterene under water so the beaver can get food to.

l15m said...

My animal is prairi dog some prairi dogs build a hole city. It can fit 1,000 prairi dogs.

kade 16 said...

THe first one was parrot fish it blows up a bubble intell it can fit inside so then its smell can not be refeeled.Also that birds can no how to build a nest on there own.

D19 said...

The parrotfish can make a bubble so it can hid from predetors while sleeping the bubble is made from a special gland full of stiky goo. The parrotfish can also pop the bubble with its mouth.

kaya said...

beavers are the best builders.they build doors underwater

K20 said...

I have two facts about prairie dogs.Prairie dogs are not related to prairie dogs.They use there sharp claws to dig.

W6 said...

the pea crab can catck little bits
of food.praire dogs dig wholes to live in.