There once was a dolphin family with two brothers named Lumpy and Pete and the mother was called Cynthia and the father was named Charlie. One day a shark named Blackie attacked Lumpy and Pete and bravely Cynthia and Charlie attacked Blackie with their one-hundred teeth. The shark, named Blackie, finally let go of Lumpy and Pete and swam away and the family lived happily ever after.
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Amazing Felines
By: Moutiangirl
2-7-2007
What amazing animal diligently carries its young to a new hiding spot every few days to avoid having its cubs falling prey to predators? This exotic cat is the leopard. Although these felines were once pursued for their pelts, they are now a protected species and roam forest regions, semi-deserts, and lower mountain ranges of Africa, and Asia with ease. Living as solitary animals, leopards tend to dwell within a defined territory, except when mating and rearing their cubs, and mark it with urine, or by shredding the bark off of certain trees. Stealthy and ferocious, these carnivores’ sharp vision and keen sense of hearing give them the unique ability to avoid detection by their predators and prey, when hunting at dawn and dusk. Although born underdeveloped and helpless, cubs can grow to be a bulky hundred pounds, and look like majestic monarchs with their beautiful spotted pelts of pole yellows to inky blacks. These glorious animals, which can live for over a decade, are nothing short of amazing!
An Unusual Bear
1-31-2007
What exotic newborn bear follows the salvia trail, its mother puts down, to make its way to a pouch on its parent’s back? This bizarre creature is the Koala Bear. Mostly concentrated in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, this solitary tree-dweller lives clinging to the top branches of the Eucalyptus with its razor-sharp claws and powerful limbs. Although the adult’s diet consists only of Eucalyptus leaves for both food and liquid, the infant bear drinks its mother’s milk and half digested food past through the mom’s rectum. Beginning life at roughly the size of a lima bean the gray, fury and pudgy marsupial adult reaches a weight between seventeen and twenty-six pounds and a height of about two feet. Harsh and unattractive the nocturnal Koala’s call, sounding like sawing wood, could be a bit unnerving during a night time stroll. Koalas may look like average mammals, but they are truly unusual bears.
