The Asian Carp include dozens of Carp species most of the Carp Species originated from Asia. The two that are most common are the Bighead Carp and Silver Carp. The Silver Carp are known for their high jumping. So high that they have injuring fishermen and the occasional newscaster. Bighead Carp don't jump as often. People are trying to use Bigheaded Carp to replace Asian Carp but, they are talking about the same two species.(1A)
The carp can grow up to 4 ft. In length and weigh up to 100 pounds (1B). When they breed they do it in the spring you need a male and a female. She will release her eggs and the male sperm will have to fertilize it. A single female Bighead Carp can have 11,000 to 1.8 million eggs, and single female Silver Carp can have 57,000 to 4.3 million eggs (1A).
The Asian Carp can be found in the Illinois River which connects to the Mississippi river. Due to the fact that Carp can reproduce quickly these fish have put into risk the Great lakes which are one of the biggest fresh water ecosystems (1C).
Farmers used the carp to remove excess algae in cat fish farms but due to the flooding of these ponds the Asian Carp were released into the Mississippi river. They have no predators and have a tendency for killing off other marine life by eating all the plankton. The worries is that they will get to the Great Lakes, wich is one of the world's largest freshwater ecosystem(1A)
The Malayan Tapir has become endangered because of deforestation and poaching in South-East Asia, Central and South America. Because of their habitat destruction this results in reduced genetic diversity and Home Range. The Tapirs are very important to the ecosystem because they are an indicator of necessities that the ecosystem such as seed predation . Also these animals are affected by human destruction because they don’t adapt well to change because of how big they are and there sensitivity to habitat range(2A).
Some important characteristics would be that they are great swimmers. There body length is about 6 ft. to 8 ft. Tail length is about 2 in. to 4 in. Weight is about 125lb. to 270 lb. They eat grass, water plants, and fruits. They are like elephants because they use their noses to put food in their mouth. Also because of their stripes they are hard to detect around trees especially in the darkness. The Malayan Tapirs go out at night so when predators only see their white spot so they won’t be able to tell what they are. But if they are seen they are very fast and can escape into the water (2B).
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The Peacock butterfly has four stunning eye spots on their wings. They resemble a peacock; they use this to scare off predators. Also when they have their wings closed it resembles tree bark. Men peacock will irritating any female peacock butterflies that trespass into his territory.. (4A)
Also when holding the butterfly upside down it looks like an Owl this helps to protect them from birds that want to eat them. The Females lay their eggs in March, April and May. In July they will come out of their cocoon and live for approximately 11 months (4B).
The sea snake lives in the pacific and Indian Ocean the sea snakes have to go through with adapting to a marine lifestyle. They mostly belong to the cobras and coral snakes family . Their venom can be 10time what a cobra’s venom, but these snakes fortunately, human fatalities are exceedingly rare. Most of these sea snakes don’t lay eggs so they give birth. These snakes are so adapted to the marine life that our of the ocean they would be useless because they don’t have scale sin there belly. They have adapted at a safe rate that they are able to absorb oxygen directly from the water trough there skin(5A).
(4A) http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Inachis_io (4b)ttp://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/butterflies_and_moths/peacock_butterfly/ (4C) http://blogolini.tumblr.com/post/468201531/peacock-butterfly-its-tumblr-tuesday-dont (5A)http://allbestworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-8-unusual-amazing-snakes.html