I am sharing this video because it has many different beautiful animals, including an elephant and zebras!! I think this video is perfect for my blog because it has more of a variety of animals that I don’t have. This is why I picked this video and I hope that it will change your mind to save an animal before their time runs out.
This blog is written by a fellow animal lover trying to save wolves. One of his posts are about the marvelous book White Fang. His second post is about protecting gray wolves. You will have to see the blog your self at this site @: http://carveraig.21classes.com/Tim5
The blog about saving the gray wolf is very brilliant and I’m proud that someone shares a love of animals with me and puts it on their blog! It talks about how they almost disappeared and has a link to learn more about this very important issue.
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My voice entry is about African animals(obviously) and how you can make a difference for the animals. Gabcast! Blogging Class #13
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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a zebra? Many people think, “Are zebras white with black stripes, or black with white stripes?” The zebra’s stripes are much like human fingerprints; they are all different and distinct in their own way. There are three main types of zebras: Burchell’s zebra or the common plains zebra. Also, the Grevy’s zebra, and the Equus zebra which are found in the southern mountains of Africa. Zebras use their stripes to confuse their predators by looking like one object so the predator can’t pick out individuals. Their coats “dissipate” 70% of the scorching African heat. Some zebra groups, especially Burchell’s zebras, can have a group of hundreds to even thousands in migratory groups. The Grevy’s zebra are adapted to more dried places, like northern Kenya, and require less water. All zebras are also very well adapted eaters. They eat things from young shoots to flowering plants.
When an adult mother zebra gives birth, they keep every zebra, even family members, away for about 3 days. The male foals are also close to their fathers as well as their mothers. Male foals stay with their mother from about 1 to 3 years until they are independent enough to join another herd of mostly “bachelors”. Females may stay a little longer from about 2 to 4 years. Sometimes, the foals even join the same group as their parents when they have proved themselves independent and helpful to the herd.
The zebras numbers may not be diminishing as dramatically as other African animals, but they still play a very important roll in the environment. We need to protect them because the big cats, especially lions and cheetahs, depend on the many zebras which are slowly descending.
The African Elephant is a magnificent creature, but unfortunately, hundreds are being killed each year for their ivory tusks. It is illegal to kill them, but many pass this law and are still killing them for money. Their numbers are dangerously diminishing and only about 500,000 of them remain. They are also endangered from habitat loss and this is becoming very dangerous to all animals and not just elephants. They are one of the biggest land mammals. Many plant species are dependent on going through an elephant’s digestive tract before they can germinate. That is just one of the reasons why the African elephant is so important for the environment. Elephants can provide water for other species by digging water holes in dry riverbeds and they also modify their habitat by converting Savannah and woodlands to grasslands. Also, their paths that they leave behind are a ”firebreak.” Unfortunately, elephants aren’t just abused in the wild; they are also beaten in circuses and some have gone on rampage resulting in their death. We need to make a difference and stop this abusing circus elephants and poaching them in the wild; if we don’t, they will disappear forever!
