Thursday, May 21, 2009 • 6:36 AM
♥ Mangrove part 2
The monitor lizard
They eat anything that they can swallow. From tiny insects, to crabs, molluscs, snakes, eggs (of birds and crocodiles), fish including eels up to 1m long. They also eat birds, rodents, small mouse deer, even other monitor lizards. They are particularly fond of carrion. They even eat rubbish, human faeces, and even dead bodies. They eat prey almost as big as themselves: one 1.2m long ate a snake 1.3m long.
Can you spot the mud skipper?
Its camouflaging well isn't it?
The mud skipper can live on both land and in water.
Unlike most fish in such habitats, which survive the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet or in tidal pools.Mud skippers are quite active when out of water, feeding and interacting with one another, for example to defend their
This is a bee hive.
Jordon actually spotted it first.
This is the first time we saw a bee hive.
Sean is holding a pong pong.
Pong pong reproduces very fast and is very adaptable to its enviornmeny.
Once the pong pong fruit is ripe and drops onto the ground,
it begans to grow.
Our C.I.P is to remove pong pong fruits which are on the ground.
We want the mangrove to have more mangrove plants instead of growing pong pong.
We really had fun while picking up pong pong.
Even though we had to get down to pick it up, and its quite muddy at some area,
but we did really enjoy it!
Its quite fun though.
Can you spot the mud skipper?
This is a bee hive.
