Wildlife Learning Center

10 animals!

North American Porcupine

-30,000 quills -predator = fisher -least concern status -threats = lumber industry & farmland

American Alligator

-bicolor camouflage -6 inches to 15 ft when older -threat = burmese python

-first animal to be put on and taken off endangered species list

-three eyelids? -osteoderm = bone in scales

Common Squirrel Monkey

-urine washing!

-live in canopy

-seed dispersers

-least concern status

Two Toed Sloth

-seed dispersal

-death grip!

-very slow digestive system/metabolism

-algae can grow on fur = mutualistic relationship (algae provides camouflage and sloth provides a home for the algae)

Kinkajou

-180 degree ankle turning

-racoon family
African Bullfrog

-indicator species

-hibernates during dry season by digging a hole

Red Tegu

-only the males are red and have puffy cheeks

-females are brown

Grey Fox

-doesn't do as well as red fox with human areas

-climbs trees

-stable status

-primitive canine (1,000s of years without evolutionary change)

African Cirvel

-eats rodents and birds -gets eaten by lions and hyenas

-stripes AND spots oooohhh

-false eyespots on its behind (tricks predators)

-a subspecies is endangered

Albino Burmese Python

-doesn't grow like that in the wild

-can be up to 20ft long and as thick as a telephone pole

-threatened in native land by pet trade

-taking over florida