Danielle+Mayfield

Wolves.
==I’m reading a book called “The Great American Wolf” by Bruce Hampton. American wolfs almost, if not all the way, died off because they were all killed. Many were starved to death or poisoned. People use to put kerosene on them, light them on fire, and watch them suffer to death. Others had their upper jaw tied to a horse and their lower jaw tied to another. The horses would walk causing their jaws to rip apart!== ==Wolfs have specialized, highly adapted, shearing teeth. This also made people want to kill them so they could sell them. People did something called a wolf dance. The hats where made of wood and bone. The first detailed portrait was of a Black North American Wolf. John James made this in 1843 which was based on his father’s sketches.== ==I also went on [|][|http://www.alaska.net/~wolfsong/wolf_facts.htm]. I talked about a lot of cool things. Out of 102 facts I picked some that thought would be the most important for people to know. The wolf is the largest out of all the wild canine families. In fact a wolf has one of the widest ranges of size, shape, and color of any mammal in North America.== ==A wolf primarily travels at a 5 mile per. hour trot. In chases, the wolf can achieve estimated speeds of between 28 and 40 miles per. hour for up to 20 minutes. Wolves are often confused with Indian dogs, Huskies, Malamutes, and German shepherd dogs. Wolfs may be cute but attempts to keep wolves as pets are not usually successful.== ==I think wolves are cute and are good with what they were naturally given to help then survive this world. Wolves are not like other dogs at all and I think that’s why they are so interesting. I hope they stay safe and grow most of their population back. Wolves are amazing.== ====

Rain forests.
==I'm reading a book called "Tropical Rain Forests" by Darlene R. Stille. There are rain forests and just forests. Rain forests are named that beacuse of all the trees and rain the have. Tropical Rain forests are surprisingly very quiet. There are alot of animals that live in the forest like snakes,ants,beetles,termites,wild pigs, many types of monkeys, parrots, other birds, huge gorillas, and much more.== ==There are many plants and some can grow as tall as a 20 story building! That's very tall. Vines like the Strangler Fig can kill a tree by wraping around the trunk. Tropical rain forests have layers. The top layer is called canopy witch is the top of the trees. The lyaer below that is called the understory witch is made up of tree trunks, young trees, and air plants. Air plants are plants that grow on the trunks and branches of many trees, they take water from the air or from plants that are rotting nearby. The bottom layer is the forest floor witch is made of few plants and very thin soil.== ==﻿Rain forest are important because we use some of their beautiful woods like mahogany,teak, and rosewood. The natives also learned how to make chocolate from the cocao bean plants in rain forests. Some rain forest plants are also used to make medicines. Scientists think many plants could help fight cancer and other diseases like the leaves off of a rosy periwinkle does. Rain forests are also important because they breath in carbon dioxide, witch comes from things like factories, homes, and cars, and exhaile oxegen that we need to breath. With out them we would die of no oxegen because carbon dioxide would over power the oxeygen.== ==﻿The rain forests are good in many ways but there are danger because people are cutting way too much trees down and building things like homes or factories. Every thing in a rain forest workes together and if people kill a small amout the rest is bound to die off. Many people are working together to fix it but if every one doesn't help then it's going to be huch harder. Their has been people that have lived in a tropical rain forests for hundreds of years and they havent harmed the forests at all.== ==﻿Tropical rain forests can be found in South America, Aferica, Madagascar, Costa Rica, Belize, Asia, and a very small part of Australia. I also found so infermatio onhttp://www.rain-tree.com/facts.html. It says there is around 10 million species in the world but only 1.4 million of these species have actually been named. Today, rainforests occupy only 2 percent of the entire Earth's surface and 6 percent of the world's land surface, yet these remaining lush rainforests support over half of our planet's wild plants and trees and one-half of the world's wildlife.I think we need rain forests and people need to cut back on everythink to try and help.== ====

Bugs.
==I'm reading a book called "Bugs" by Claire Llewellyn. Many people are afraid of bugs, like me, and they dint think twice about how they must feel. For one second I want you to try asnd imagine what it's like to be very, very tiny. For them, the grass is as thick as a forest and a flower is a tall as a tree. Being small my now sound scary, but it can be useful because you would be able to hide anywhere. Bugs like hide under rocks, under stones, inside a folwerpot, or in the crack of a wall.== ==Their are millons of different types of bugs and they live all around the world. In fact, there are so many different kinds that scientists have sorted them into groups. Each group cantains animals with the same kind of body structure. All bugs and spiders have a hard casing on the outside of their bodies called the exoskeleton. The exoskeleton protects the amimal's soft insides, just like a strong suit of armor. There are more bugs in the world than any other kind of animal.== ==I'm going to name some bugs and tell you a little about them. First is the true bugs group, true bugs are a special kind of bug with long beaky mouthparts. Next is spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks and of corse spiders fit in this group. Then their is the other minibeasts, things that fit this group is centipedes and millipedes, because they have so many legs, snails and slugs, because they have no legs, and eathworms, because they have tiny bristles instead of legs.== ==Summer nights are alive with all kinds of bugs. Crickets, mosquitoes, and tiny fireflies love night time. The air is nice and cool plus many of their enemies are sleeping. Night time is when they eat and mate. In the morning their back to hideing and waiting for night time to return.== ==Even after that I hate bugs. Even if they are more scared of us then we are of them. They're still not very cute. Bugs are good and bad for use. Some carry diseases but others, like bees, keep flowers alive and flowers give us the oxeygen we need while getting rid of the things we don't. I never thought I would say this but thank you bugs, we couldn't live without you.==

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