Amazing Amusing A-Z Animal Facts for Kids
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
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amazingly um using a through Z animal facts for kids and they're adults by a reluctant mom introduction. There are over 1,371,000 animal species on Earth. I know this because I'm a wildlife biologist and I know how to use google. I'm also a mom, a reluctant mom, I'll admit because at first it was hard to set aside work to focus my attention on keeping a brand new human alive and thriving, but man was the sacrifice worth it. I have loved introducing my kiddo to the natural world around him. We love to hike nature trails, go beachcombing, watch lizards in our yard, catch and release bugs that get inside the house, anything and everything involving animals. Over the course of my career, I implemented conservation projects for birds and marine animals, fought to pass federal natural resource legislation and distributed millions in grant funding to fish and wildlife conservation programs worldwide. Throughout my years and years of working with animals and implementing wildlife conservation projects, I had the privilege to encounter some fascinating creatures in person and observe their behaviors up close. I couldn't keep all those stories to myself. So I wrote them down for others to enjoy too. If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched, share my wildlife with me because humans want to save things that they love steve. Irwin. I'm stoked to share all of these amazingly amusing animal facts with you. I'm stoked to share these amazingly amusing animal facts with you. My goal is to inspire a love and respect for this planet that will make the next generation socially and environmentally conscious and motivate them to protect the earth, its inhabitants and its resources. Hopefully you'll also get a good laugh and learn some new things in the process. Let's go lobster. There are so many cool animals that start with L. That it was difficult to narrow down my list of which to feature. The leaf cutter and leaf tailed gecko are two of my favorites. But in the end, I'll tell you about an animal you've already heard of the lobster, but what you maybe haven't heard of is the lobsters unique anatomy. Their brain is in their throat instead of their head. They taste with their feet instead of their tongue. They don't even have tongues and their teeth are in their stomach instead of their mouth. There's more, let's dig in. There are about 75 species of lobster in the world and they grow continuously throughout their lives unlike many animals that stopped growing after reaching maturity. In fact, a lobster holds the record for the largest Crustacean ever known. A little guy, big guy that was caught in 1977 off the coast of Nova Scotia. He weighed in at 44 lb six oz and was thought to have been 100 years old. Researchers believe that lobsters have relatively poor vision though they aren't entirely certain to what extent. Many think that lobsters can only detect light and shadows as opposed to complete images and they don't see the full color spectrum. So they rely on sound taste and smell to move through the environment, but they don't hear with ears or taste with mouths or smell. With nose is all these are accomplished via their legs and antennae. A lobster's large antennae have tiny sensor hairs called mechanical receptors that detect sound. These receptors don't actually here as humans do, but rather they identify vibrations from the sounds that prey predators and other lobsters make in the water. A lobster's small antennae have hundreds of tiny hairs that do the smelling. These hairs can detect the levels of various compounds in the surrounding marine environment, especially amino acids given off by other animals, by sniffing around A. K. Flicking their antennae. Lobsters can tell if there are predators or prey nearby and in which direction they're located.