I am going to start writing about the Columbian White-Tailed Deer. I want to help the species like we did the Bald eagle. I am going to study it and (if we dont already know) find out how to help it. I will try to post often but dont expect any regular posts.

Zack

"yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift...thats why it is called the present."

I herd this on kung fu panda from the turtle master.

Did you know that people recently found the fresh scat of thoght to be extinct Tasmanian Wolf and the not fossilized carcas of also thought to be extinct Dodo bird?
The Tasmanian Wolf is thought to have been extinct for nearly sixty-five years. This animal was actually not a wolf, it wasent a dog either, which it also looked like. It was actually a marsupial.The largest carnivorous marsupial, and was closely related to the kangaroo and the wombat. it actually had a pouch!! Thus the Tasmanian Wolf's  Latin name, Thylacinus cynocephalus, meaning "pouched dog with wolf head," reflects the animal's true nature as well as its similarity to the dog and the wolf. The last  known Tasmanian Wolf died in Hobart Zoo in australia on sept.7,1936. Now, they think that there might still be a few in existance!

The Dodo was first sighted around 1600 on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, the Dodo went extinct less than eighty years later.

The Dodo's stubby wings and heavy, body tell us that the dodo couldn't fly. Yet scientists believe that the Dodo evolved from a bird capable of flight into a flightless one. When an ancestor of the Dodo landed on Mauritius, it found a habitat with plenty of food and no predators. It therefore did not need to fly, and, as flying takes a great deal of energy, it was more efficient for the bird to remain on the ground. Thus the flightless Dodo.  I read on cnn.com that they just recently found a couple day old carcas of the dodo bird. thats all for now.

the new seven wonders of the world are,

• The Great Wall of China.

• Petra in Jordan.

• Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer.

• Peru's Machu Picchu.

• Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid.

• The Colosseum in Rome.

• India's Taj Mahal.

My personal favorite is Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid. I read about it in a book called The Book  of marvels it is a verry good book=) oh. by the way this info is from cnn.com

There are three water falls that I think are the most amazing. The Niagara, the Iguazu and the Victoria falls. Niagra with out a doubt has the biggest amount of water. The Iguazu and the Victoria falls are seasonal. After alot of rain the Victoria and Iguazu falls flow of water can get up to sixty feet deep!!! As for the width of the falls the Niagara falls is 5,300 feet a little more then a mile, the Iguazu falls are 10,000 thousand feet and the Victoria falls are 5,700 feet!!! Niagara's cascade is the shortest at 167 feet, Iguazu is 237 feet and the Victoria falls are the tallest with 354 feet. Niagara is the most visible. There is not even one place where you can see even half of the Iguazu falls and when the Victoria falls are supposed to be the most beautiful the mist covers most of it. The Iguazu has the most beautiful setting deep in a tropical jungle though. That's all I have right now but I will write again soon

On Saturday I went to Tillamook forest visitor's center and learned about the six year jinx on the forest . The jinx started in 1933 there was a big fire in the Tillamook forest. It happened three times 1933, 1939, 1945. The 1933 fire was the worst. As you already guessed they got better from there. The first burn was so bad that there was a giant mushroom cloud and the ash from that fire landed on boat's two hundred mile's away! I got to go into a tower that was really tall. They used it to spot wild fires in the forest and to warn the firemen. The tower was so tall and they didn't have lightning rod's so they had insulated stool's that they would stand on if there was a lightning storm so they wouldn't get shocked if lightning struck the tower. Then we went on a walk to collect forestry samples to press. That's all I can think of right now.

I will write again soon.

I work at the pet shop once or twice a week. This week I learned about the fish disease ich or ick something like that. It's little white dot's that look like dust just blew on to the fish. If you ignore it for one night you will wake up the next morning to see all of you're fish dead and covered in white spots. Last week I did what's called PH testing in the fish tank's. PH is the amount of alkaline and acidity in the water. Most fish cant stand a lot of acid in the water. If the PH balance is off you're fish will die. There is a PH testing kit that I used and there was a card that told you the PH balance. The range on the card is 6.0 to 7.6. the safe range 6.8 is a little bit low 7.0 is great and 7.2 is a little high. If the balance is 7.6 then I put in a solution. The PH should go down in about ten minutes then I will test that tank again. This week I got to see three love bird's. They were AWESOME( there are really messy though)!!!! I also got to hold two baby rat's a savanna monitor lizard a tortoise and a golden tree frog there were some hermit crab's too. One rat escaped and we caught it!!!! I got a huge feather from a macaw. There was another macaw(not the one I got the feather from)named Lou she is a Catalina. A Catalina is a mix between a green-wing and a blue and gold it's is really cool and has a orange chest. We got to redo the hermit crab's tank because the dry sand got wet and it was supposed to be dry like a beach. We had to do that twice because the first time the sand got wet a gain.

I will write again soon