Workshop: Animals of the World
Crane
The Crane is one of the best-traveled birds in the animal kingdom, residing on five of the seven continents. An aggressive species, cranes will attempt to intimidate one another by means of sharp pecks and scratches from the bill and the claws. In many cultures, the Crane is held to be a mystical bird, with deep metaphysical significance.
Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch migrates in the late summer and early fall, often traveling thousands of miles from the Plains states to the Southern U.S. and into Mexico. During the winter, Monarchs mate, and the female often lays her eggs during the return flight to the Plains states.
Elephant
The Elephant is a familial animal, living in units which usually consist of the mother and her young. A typical elephant family might consist of eight animals or so, though families may have twenty or more members. One of the most expressive animals, elephants cry, laugh, and play.
Frog
Frogs are members of the zoological class called Amphibia. Amphibians are cold-blooded (or poikilothermic) vertebrate animals. They differ from reptiles in that they lack scales and generally return to water to breed. They are one of three types of Amphibians. Anura, also called Salientia, (frogs and toads), caudate (salamanders and newts) and caecilians (worm-like amphibians).
Hippopotamus
The Hippopotamus, whose name means "river horse", is an herbivore that lives in and around the water. A relative of camels, pigs, and deer, the hippo has two lives in one! The center of a hippo's day life is water. Like a hippo pool-party, sometimes hundreds of hippos, will share a territory of water during the day. Whether it's mating, playing, fighting or giving birth, hippo's all wet. The hippo's night life begins a few hours after sunset, when all the hippos file out of the water to graze on land by the light of the moon.
