Fast movers

Fast movers

The cheetah can run faster than any other animal.

It can move at about 100 kilometers an hour, but it cannot run this fast for long.

The cheetah uses its speed to catch other animals to eat.

It creeps towards its prey until it is only about 100 meters away.

Then it races towards it at top speed, ready for the final attack.

( The cheetah’s long slender legs and muscular body help it to run fast The long tail balances the body while it is running.)

The red kangaroo is a champion jumper.

It can leap along at 40 kilometers an hour or more.

The kangaroo needs to be able to travel fast.

It lives in the dry desert lands of Australia and often has to journey long distances to find grass to eat and water to drink.

The red kangaroo can leap 9 or 10 meters in a single bounce.

The pronghorn is slower than the cheetah, but it can run for longer,

It can keep up a speed of 70 kilometers an hour for about ten minutes.

Even the little brown hare can run at more than 70 kilometers an hour.

Its powerful back legs help it move fast enough to escape enemies such as foxes.

AMAZING FACT!

SPEED DEMONS!

How do you compare to the fastest mammal on earth?

Ask an adult or measure how far you can run in 10 seconds.

Times this by 6,and them times the answer by 60 to find out how many meters you can run in an hour if you divide this by 1000.

You will find it will be far less then the cheetah’s 100 kilometers per hour!

Fast movers

Big and small mammal

Big and small mammal

The blue whale is the biggest mammal and the largest animal ever known to have lived.

(Blue whale: 39.5 meters long)

It can me aspire more than 33.5 meters long that’s as long as seven family cars parked end to end   and weigh up to 190,000 kilograms.

It spends all it’s life in the sea.

Mammal species range -from the giant blue whale to tiny shrews and bats.

Here you can see the blue whale to scale with the largest land mammals, and a tiny human!

The elephant is the biggest land mammal.

There are three kinds of elephant

1.The  African savanna elephant

2. The African forest elephant

3. The Asian elephant

The African savanna is the biggest, a full-grown male may weight as much as 7500 Kg more than a hundred adult people.

It stands about 4 meters height at the shoulder.

Elephants may eat more then 300 Kg of leaves, twigs and fruit each day.

Gorillas are the biggest primates.

Primates are the group of mammals to which chimpanzees and humans belong.

A full-grown mule gorilla is about 1.75 meters tall and weighs as much as 275 kilograms.

The giraffe is the tallest of all the mammals.

A male giraffe is about 5.5 meters tall   that’s more than three or four people standing on each other’s shoulders.The giraffe lives in Africa, south of the Sahara desert. Its height helps it reach fresh juicy leaves at the tops of trees.

The capybara is the largest living rodent

. Rodents are the group of mammals that include rats and mice. At about 1.3 meters long the capybara is a giant compared to most rodents.

It lives around ponds, lakes and rivers in South America.

The smallest mammal in the world is the tiny hog-nosed bat.

A full-grown adult’s body is only 3 centimeters long. It weighs about 2 grams — less than a teaspoon of rice!

The tiny mouse deer is only the Size of a hare.

Also known as the chevrotain, this little creature is only about 85 centimeters long and stands about 30 centimeters high at the shoulder. It lives in African forests.