An elephant?!

Whoa! Let's stop in Africa to get some knowledge about elephants!

Elephants are the greatest mammals on land, but, there is a mammal that is bigger than the elephant itself! The majestic blue whale (We're going to talk about that in other posts).

Elephants, can eat as much as 32 kilograms of leaves and grass a day! Hey, you know what? An elephant, can eat more food in one week than a couple of people in a year! Pretty sweet, don't you think?

Elephants live in Africa. The elephants scientific name is Loxodonta Africana (Savanna elephant, largest elephant specie).

As most people know, elephant hunters hunt elephants for their ivory tusks. Then the hunters go to the company they're working in and say: "Here are the ivory tusks you asked for!" Well, the company man replies: "Well, you've brought me what we need so here is the money for them".

Then, how CAN you stop them!? The ones beginning to hunt elephants think: "Good job, if I kill more elephants for their tusks I'll get more money!" Then it just goes on and the hunters end up killing more elephants! Once there was a extremely large number of them, thirty years ago there was 3 million of elephants, but now there is barely about half a million!

Well, we can all see the changes in nature and no one is able to say: "Lets finish with killing elephants!" because then the others will say: "No, we want ivory figures to sell! They are very nice!"

Go on and pass the knowledge to your other members of the family! Goodbye!

Hawks everywhere!

Let me tell you about hawks.

Hawks are birds of prey, means predators. Their prey is usually mice, snakes, small birds and sometimes lizards or rodents. Hawks catch their prey in their talons and then they bring it to the nest to share the animal with their family. As everyone knows, hawks rip their prey with their powerful beaks. Hawks have very keen eyesight. The hawks eyesight is eight times more powerful than ours! No wonder that they can fly so high and see so well!

Hawks live up to 10 - 21 years. The mother hawk lays from 1 - 3 eggs in the nest at nesting time. Adult hawks weigh somewhere about half a kilo. The hawks wingspan is 56 inches (142cm).

Bye for now!

Talking about animals

I like animals, so I'd like to give you some info about the kingfisher. The kingfisher is one of the most beautiful birds we have. Of course, not in Australia. Kingfishers are also called 'flying jewels' because when they fly, when you look up, it's like you see a flying jewel.

The kingfishers babies must feel horrible in their nest because it's made out of fish skeletons!

These miraculous birds, they live in colonies and they dig their nests in hilly grounds near the riverbank. Therefore, their old name 'groundfisher' which means that the bird 'is born in the ground' comes from their nesting places.

There are three types of kingfishers:
- our common kingfisher,
- the piebald kingfisher and
- the white kingfisher.

I hope you learned something from my post. See you again!

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