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Otter
Habitat:
· The otter lives on the edges of streams and rivers, where it can swim and catch food.
Diet:
· The otter eats mainly eats aquatic animals, predominantly fish and shellfish, but also other invertebrates, amphibians, birds and small mammals.
Physical Features:
· The otter has a long slim body, powerful jaws, relatively short limbs and webbed paws with sharp claws. Its fur is brown and is waterproof. Underneath its skin it has a layer of fat to help keep it warm under water. It has a tail like a paddle used for swimming.
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Giant Leaf Frog
Habitat:
· The giant leaf frog is found throughout the Amazon Rain Forest. Typically spend most of their adult life in the trees.
Diet:
· The giant leaf frog feeds upon insects.
Physical Features:
· It is characterized by long limbs and lack of webbing between their toes. This last trait allows them to grasp branches and to climb trees. A notable characteristic is the ability to produce a waxy secretion through their skin containing a poison which results in hallucinations. The giant leaf frog is nocturnal.
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Red Fox
Habitat:
· Geographically wide spread. It is distributed across the entire northern hemisphere from the arctic circle to North Africa, Central America and the steppes of Asia.
Diet:
· The species primarily feeds on small rodents, though it may also target game birds, reptiles, and invertebrates. Fruit and vegetable matter is also eaten on occasion.
Physical Features:
· It is usually reddish brown in color, yet can actually appear with silver, gray, white or black colorings. Red Foxes have elongated bodies and relatively short limbs. The tail, which is longer than half the body length is long, fluffy and reaches the ground when in a standing position.
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Goanna
Habitat:
· Goannas are found throughout most of Australia, except for Tasmania, and manage to persist in a variety of environments. Most are known to climb trees or outcrops.
Diet:
· Prey can include all manner of small animals: insects, smaller lizards, snakes, mammals, birds and eggs. They are also carrion eaters and will feed on the carcasses of dead animals, including livestock and other large creatures.
Physical Features:
· Predatory lizards which are quite large, with sharp teeth and claws. Most goannas are dark in coloration, whites, grays, browns blacks and greens featuring prominently. Camouflage ranges from bands and stripes to splotches, speckles and circles and can change as the creature matures
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Chital
Habitat:
· The chital is a deer which is commonly inhabits wooded regions of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and in small numbers Pakistan. It is the most common deer species in the Indian forest.
Diet:
· Feed upon tall grass and shrubs. Chital are primarily grazers and feed on short, sprouting grasses. However, they will also brows as well as eat forbs, fruit and branches of trees especially when they are thrown down by monkeys.
Physical Features:
· The chital’s coat is reddish fawn, marked with white spots and its underside is white. Its antlers, which it sheds annually, are usually three pronged and curve in a lyre shape and may extend to 2.5 feet. Males tend to be larger than the females.
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Anhinga
Habitat:
· Anhinga are found all over the word in warm shallow waters. They will migrate towards the equator during winter, but this range is determined by the amount of sunshine to warm the chilled birds.
Diet:
· Feed upon fish and amphibians by diving into the water.
Physical Features:
· A large bird that measures 35 inches in length and 45 inches in wingspan. The weight is 2.7 lbs. the bill is long at about twice the length of its head, sharply pointed and yellow as are the webbed feet. Unlike ducks, Anhinga is not able to waterproof its feathers using oil. Consequently, feathers can become waterlogged, making the bird barely buoyant. However, this allows it to dive easily and search for underwater prey. It can stay down for significant periods. Its long neck has given it the nick name snake bird.
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Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
Habitat:
· The Pantropical Spotted Dolphin is species of dolphin found in all the world’s temperate and tropical oceans. The species in the eastern Pacific Ocean and it is now one of the most abundant dolphin species in the world.
Diet:
· Diet includes small fish, but they also feed on squid and crustaceans.
Physical Features:
· Spots are a defining characteristic in adults. The Dolphin has a long thin beak. The upper and lower jaws are darkly colored but are separated by thin white “lips”. The chin, throat and belly are white to pale grey with a limited amount of spots. They are very active and prone to making large splashy leaps from the sea.
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Adelie Penguin
Habitat:
· The Adelie Penguin is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast. They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds. The Adelie penguins breed from October to February on shores around the Antarctic continent. Adelies build rough nests of stones to lay their eggs.
Diet:
· Feed mainly on Antarctic krill, ice krill, Antarctic silverfish, and Glacial squid during the chick rearing season.
Physical Features:
· These penguins are mid-sized 18 to 30 in. in length and weigh 8.6 to 12.8 lbs. Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at the base of the bill. These long feathers hid most of the red bill. The tail is a little longer than other penuins’ tails. They are smaller than other penguin species. Adelie penguins can swim up to 45 miles per hour. Adelie penguins are preyed on by skua (arctic bird). Like all penguins, the Adelie is highly social, foraging and nesting in groups. They are also very aggressive to other penguins that steal stones from their nest.
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