Sunday Post

Peoples, I am SO SORRY! I totally forgot that today was Sunday!!! Oooooopppps! *giggle* Oh, and if you want me more often, go over to www.homeschoolblogger.com/undercover/ ! I'm over there almost every day! So sorry I didn't write much on the White-tailed deer, my hands have wood filler on them from filling in nail holes in our classroom (we're making it into a bedroom and my dad's famous for trim....meaning that there's a lot of it in here that I need to fill!)

Love to all!

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did you know...White-tailed deer!

-it's also known as the Virginia deer

-it's coat turns greyish-brownish in fall and winter

- a male is a "buck", a female is a "doe", babies are"fawns"

-bucks have antlers by one year of age

-Texas has more deer than any other U.S. state

-other states that have a large population are Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York, Mississippi, and New Jersey

-white-tailed deer were introduced to Finland in the 1930's

-deers can eat some foods that are poisonous to us because of a special stomach

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did you know...Bears!

-most bears don't have carnassial teeth?

-they molt in spring?

-they use their claws mostly for digging and not bringing down prey?

-the largest Kodiak bear weighed almost 2400 pounds according to the Great Bear Almanac?

-the brown bear is practically nocturnal?

-bears ARE NOT fully hibernators? And my teacher taught me that they were in 1st grade....that's okay, I'll forgive you, Mom!! *giggle*

-they are omnivores?

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did you know....Coral Snakes!

Scientific Classification:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes

Family: Elapidae

~Elapids have hollow fangs

~Coral snakes molt 2 to 10 times a year

~Old coral snakes don't molt as often as younger ones

~Their color bands turn pale before they molt

~How to tell the Coral snake from other look-alike snakes: "Red against yellow, kill a fellow, red against black, poison lack." The Kingsnake's (nonvenomous) rings go red-black-yellow-black, but the Coral's goes red-yellow-black-yellow. But only South and Eastern U.S. has the Coral snake with that pattern. Other Coral snakes that live in other areas can have different colored bands or even no bands at all.

~They sometimes shake their tails down animal holes to scare out prey.

~Coral snakes can't eat prey larger than their own head because they can't open their jaws very wide.

~They have small heads the same size of their bodies (about 1 inch)

~Aquatic Coral snakes have flattened tails to help them swim.

~Corals don't usually bite and aren't that aggressive.

~They're very venomous, and they are a relative of the cobra

~Their venom is a neurotoxin

~Coral snakes are mostly ophiophagou, feeding on other snakes.

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