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 =7C = ELEPHANTS ^ Elephants are amazing animals and very large. They are a grey colour and have huge ears that are made to aerate their huge long body.

^ Elephants have two different genders like humans. A male has huge long tusks and women don’t. The tusks are there for protection when fighting.

^ Elephants have long trunks so that they can drink, eat and clean their kids. Also they can spray water all over them so they can keep cool.

^ Elephants are scared of mice. We don’t know why and we don’t know if it’s true -but that’s what we hear! By Amy N & Kirsty S

Elephants Elephants smell like hay.

If you ate an elephant it would taste chewy and tough.

Elephants are grey with white tusks.

Elephants look big and heavy.

If you patted an elephant it would feel wrinkly.

Elephants are noisy and make loud noises with their trunks.

by Anna C


 * [[image:gorilla.jpg align="left"]] GORILLA

The colours of black fur with white and grey fur. ** The sight of a bulky big animal. ** The sound of a human roaring as loud as possible. ** The smell of its last meal. ** ** The taste of fleas and stinky meals. **

by Zeeghan

** The Tiger ** The sight of the tiger was soft and peaceful The sound of the tiger was  a loud deep sound

If the tiger could talk it would be saying, ‘’You look very tasty .’’ I don’t eat tiger but I can tell you what they eat - they eat meat. The colour of the tiger was ** ** a light orange and a nice black colour

The smell of the tiger was meat like ** ** The feel of the tiger was soft and peaceful, cute and cuddly like a normal house cat **

by Claire

** THE TIGER ** ** THE TIGRESS'S EYES SHINE LIKE AN EMERALD, HER ORANGE COAT BURNS LIKE FIRE AS SHE MOVES, ** **LAUREN **
 * SHE VANISHES AND REAPPEARS IN THE TALL BROWN GRASS, **
 * ARMED WITH DAGGER LIKE TEETH AND CLAWS, **
 * THIS TIGRESS GOES FOR THE KILL **

Jackson Chameleon

 ** His eyes like large beads On insects and flies he feeds He opens his mouth very wide Hoping something will go inside

He lazes in the hot sun Not feeling like a run He watches the day go by Just like that passing fly He is staring straight at me Right up there in that tree

He can hear a hawk So he hides in the tree fork He changes colour so he can’t seen He knows the hawk is really mean Quietly he sneaks away Not wanting to be the hawks prey **


 * by Remi C**

** Zoo Diary **

20/3/09 Dear diary, my name is Ramalon. I’m one of the sumatran tigers from the Melbourne Zoo. My friend's name is Binjai. I’m a male and Binjai is a female. I was born on the 26/10/95 and Binjai was born on the 30/08/02. My family's range is from lowland forest to mountain areas. Our smaller size enables us to move about easily in our rainforest habitat and our narrow stripes provide excellent camouflage in long grass. Our diet depends on our location and quantity of prey in that area. Our cousins the main land tiger have spread far and wide throughout Asia they gone to India and Russia we are very adaptable we thrive at minus 40 to +50 degrease centigrade. That’s all I can wright for now because its food time now. PS I promise to write in you at least once a week.

29/3/09  Today I caught a sparrow. I actually caught one. I stalked him before attacking. We tigers will always attack our prey from the rear. But then again we tigers are skilful hunters with excellent hearing and sight to help us. Common food in the wild includes wild boar, birds, fish, tapir and deer. But my pet aka trainer took the bird off me! Rats! That was going to be my dinner! Probably keeping it for his dinner he is! But the thing that’s really bugging me is I heard that illegal hunting of tigers for use in traditional medicines, and loss of our rainforest habitat, is continuing to threaten the remaining of my family's wild populations. Too angry to write any more.

3/4/09 This week I found out more about my kind. I found out that we tigers are good swimmers and can cross rivers which are 7–8 kilometres wide without any difficulty and to seek out prey and defend our home range it is not uncommon for a wild tiger to travel 10–20 kilometres a day. Our class is mammal; our order is carnivore; our family is feline; our species name is panthera tigris sumatrae and our status is critically endangered. The island of Sumatra is at the bottom of Asia the red dots are where the wild tigers are. Binjai has been very fat over the last 100 days I wonder why?

10/4/09 The trainers took Binjai out of the gate and disappeared with her. She has not come back since it quite now. I also found out my species is doomed unless the trade in its body parts is stopped and its habitats saved. One estimate suggests there may be only 400-500 of us left in the wild. We are one of the most feared animals in the world. That is probably because we are the largest of the felines, although we Sumatran tiger are smaller than the Indian tiger. We tiger s are known for our stripes, and we Sumatran tigers have stripes that are a little closer to each other than some other subspecies of tiger. We tigers have very muscular front legs (forepaws) with large paws armed with large, sharp claws.

13/4/09  Still no sign of Binjai but I did learn more. I learnt my life span is 15 to 20 years. Of the eight tiger subspecies that once existed, only five remain (Bali, Javan and Caspian tigers have become extinct in the last 40 years). The more I learn the more I ask for help……. 22/4/09 Binjai is back and she has cubs. They are so cute. Binjai also told me a male Siberian or Amur Tiger, with a total body length in excess of 10 ft and weighing up to 300 kg is by far the largest and most powerful member of the cat family. However, overall body size varies considerably throughout the five sub-species –a female Sumatran being almost 3 ft smaller. With exception of the Lion the tiger is probably the most easily recognised of all wild cats - its fur which ranges from orange to brownish yellow with a white chest and belly is covered with broken vertical black/dark brown stripes. The length of the fur is longer in the Amur tiger which inhabits the colder forested regions of eastern Russia and northern China. However, seasonal variation occurs throughout the species, with the winter markings often being paler and less well defined in the longer winter coat. Males of all sub-species also exhibit longer fur in the form of a 'ruff' around the back of the head, this is specially pronounced in the Sumatran male. PS the cubs’ names are Kumo and Sunga.

28/4/09 Today the same people came to visit us about 50 times. Other than that, today was pretty boring. 2/5/09 Today Binjai told me we Sumatran tigers are distinctive for being the only subspecies to live in isolation on a large island -- Sumatra, Indonesia. Our ancestors have been isolated from their cousins on mainland Asia for something like 10-12,000 years; this happened after a rise in sea level. PS I have broken my promise to write in you every week. PPS Cubs are growing fast. 10/5/09 Today Binjai gave me this but it might not help the people much.  ** Status of the tiger in 1996 **
 * Tiger sub-species** || **Minimum** || **Maximum** ||
 * Bengal Indian Tiger  || 3030   || 4735   ||
 * Siberian Tiger  || 162   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">230 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">South China Tiger <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">20 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">30 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sumatran Tiger <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">400 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">500 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Indo-Chinese Tiger <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1180 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1790 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Totals (rounded) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4800 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">7300s **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Totals (rounded) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4800 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">7300s **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  ||


 * DANNIELLO & MANDARIN **

One Daytues there were two awesome little girls named Danniello and Mandarin. They went to a school called Allarbat Tall School. That day they went to the Belmourne Ooz. They were very excited to be there, but they didn’t have much time, so they went to the Rigaffes first, because that was Danniello’s most favourite animal ever. Next they walked over to the Ippohotamuses, they were Mandarin’s favourite. They saw a few more animals after that, Danniello really liked the Keermats and the Lelaphants, but she got a bit scared of the Elopards. Next they went to the Ilons, but they didn’t stay long because Mandarin said she was hungry and they decided to get some lunch. They went to the food court next for a bite to eat, and Danniello got a poasty pastie while Mandarin got a nabana stilp. They only had 15 minutes left, so they quickly dropped by the Enguinps enclosure and then started to make their way back to the front gate to get on the bus. But on the way, they got separated in a crowd from Celadome Rimarpy School. “Danniello!” Mandarin called, “Where are you?”

“Mandarin, Mandarin!” called Danniello, “I’ve lost you Mandarin.” Danniello suddenly found she was all alone on the footpath next to the Corpupines. Mandarin was nowhere in sight. “…Whe-where are you Mandarin?” she mumbled. Meanwhile, Mandarin was back near the Ilons. She couldn’t see Danniello anywhere at all! Her top lip started to tremble, her vision went all shiny…”Waaaaaaghh!” she cried, “Aaah-aaah.” She turned around to go back along the path but suddenly realised that she wasn’t sure which direction she’d come from. “Danniello?” she sniffed sadly. At that moment Danniello was really very near, but she was going the opposite way! She was trudging back towards the school meeting place, hoping that Mandarin would think of that and walk there too. But Mandarin wasn’t. She was sitting on a bench hoping that Danniello would come and find her. She waited for 10 minutes, just sitting and waiting. She had stopped crying now, but was still feeling very scared and down. Finally she decided that she would walk to the meeting place, and she could tell Mr Plingram that Danniello was missing. She got up and walked to the meeting place; only to find that Danniello was waiting there for her! Hooray! They got onto the bus; feeling very happy. They sat near Kajc S, Damdi, Irtsky, Racissah, May Armee and Eezghan. Danniello and Mandarin really enjoyed their trip to the Belmourne Ooz, and it was all they could talk about on the way home.

By Mandi and Danni 7C

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #404040; font-size: 50pt;">Elephant Gray, black and brown l ike a mouse. Wrinkly and smooth l ike an old person’s skin smooth like silk. LOUD! l ike a radio. Big and round l ike a ball. Chewy and tuff l ike a steak. by Ashlyn