Question: do you have a favorite specie of animals?
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I love these worms they look so cool!!
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My sister has a pug dog Shona! They are really cute, but really noisy with all their snorting!
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Hahahaa, how cute. I have a british bulldog, he does snort, snore and dribble a lot. There is a Pomeranian next door, they snort at each other through the fence. Its very cute and funny.
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@ Lorib12 Yes they are. The Christmas tree worms are great to see when scuba diving, because all the different colours can be on one big rock. As you swim over them and your shadow goes over they all suck back down into their tubes to hide.
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my favorite species is probably sharks. they are so cool and there are so many different types and my favorite shark is a tiger shark.
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Sharks are brilliant aren’t they! I like tiger sharks too. I think my fave sharks are either the great white or the thresher shark because it has a really long fin!
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Have you ever been classifying an animal using a dichotomas key and had an animal that has fallen under many different branches, if so what have you done and what are the steps you take to solve this.
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I really like cheetahs because there cute and there not like other big cats because you can pat them and their friendly and intelligent.
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@dmath56 Oooo! yes tiger sharks are really cool, they have a nice pattern on their side. I’ve seen tiger sharks waiting in the surf for baby turtles to hatch, Dinner time! I think I would stay out of the water if I saw a tiger shark.
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@ awesomegal03 Cheatah’s are really cute, they look like they are crying because of the pattern on their face.
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@ kwald27 This is a good question. Yes I have had this happen many times. It can be very frustrating. There are a few reasons why I have done this.
1) I might be using an old key that doesn’t have all the new species in it. I have to go look in libraries, on the internet or in scientific journals for an updated key.
2) I might be using a key that only looks at the animals from a particular region. for example: I might have a key for Darwin Harbour animals but my animal was found in Sydney, then I need to get a key for Sydney animals.
3) this one is a bit embarrassing. I just might be answering the questions wrong or I might not know enough about this animals to use the key (this happens to me when I try to name sea fleas, they are very hard). To solve this I take the animal to a Museum curator or I contact another scientist who has more experience with this animal then I do. I usually spend time with them so they can teach me.
3) I might also have a new species and it doesn’t fit the key because it is different. If it is a new species then I have to collect all the scientific journals articles about species in this group and compare the known species to my new species. This is a long process, it can take a years or more to publish a new species name.
Sometime a species can’t be named quick enough for a monitoring project, which only lasts 12 months and we need to give an answer to the client. so in the mean-time we give animals taxonomic-unit names. So we identify the animal as far as we can with the keys and give them a number, for example Hermundura sp.1 or Hermundura sp.nov.1 which means new species of Hermundura no1.
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I love sun bears because they are cute but their tongues can be really long.
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I think my favourite animal would have to be either a pig, a Labrador, a Beagle, a kitten, an orangutan or a bunny. It is so hard to choose, they’re all so cute!
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Yes, they’re all so cute aren’t they! 🙂
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Or a Husky
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Oh, its so hard to pick I think I might have a few. I love dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), especially pugs and british bulldogs. I have two favourite worms one is Sternaspidae, copy that name in to Google images and you can see photos, they are a worm but they are also a ball! the other is the Christmas tree worms, there are so many colours. I’ve always wanted to see a Hammerhead shark but I have never seen one in the wild. Do you have a favourite animal?
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I think my top 3 favourites are sharks, ducks and dogs. Probably dogs are my fave. I like pigs too though… I can’t really decide to be honest! I love all animals!! Great and small! How about you??
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Hi dmath56 and kasey22,
I honesty love so many different animals because I learnt so much about them when I studied Zoology. There are soooooooo many animals out there that it is hard to choose!
If I had to choose one, it would be the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It is an awesome animal because it has so many strange features. It is a mammal, which normally means it should give birth to live young, but instead it lays eggs!! This makes it a special type of mammal called a monotreme – echidnas are monotremes too.
It is strange-looking with its duck-billed face, beaver-like tail, and feet of an otter. It really stumped early explorers of Australia because it was such a weird looking animal. When scientists back in Britain heard about it, they thought it was a joke and that it wasn’t actually real!
Here are some cool facts that make me admire the platypus so much:
1. Male echidnas are venomous. They have a spur on their hind foot which can be very painful to humans making them cute, but dangerous too.
2. They have something called electroreception, which means that they can find their prey by detecting electric fields generated by the prey’s muscular contractions. We certainly can’t do that!
3. They don’t have nipples to feed their young milk; instead they secrete it through openings in their skin!
There are many more reasons to love a platypus. I could go on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… but we’ll be here forever. I hope to see one in the wild one day. I’ve only seen them at Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria.
I’d love to know what your favourite animal is.
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Squid.
Although they onl live for a year they are highly intelligent and have you seen one change colour? How cool?
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I love dogs (especially kelpies) but other than that my favourite animal is the hippo. I just think they are really cool
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