Global warming - a poem

The earth is our mother,
we cannot get another.
She sheltered us for many years,
she gave us a nose, mouth and ears.

But now she's in a sticky problem,
we need to find a solution.
To save her from desolation,
we need to stop further pollution.

Genets

Genets are a species of mammal related to the mongoose and fossa. They are also highly agile, like the fossa. They have spotted coats, banded tails, large ears, and small heads. Their tails are very long. Their tails are almost one to one and a half times the length of their body. Genets spend most of their time in trees. Most species live in Africa, but one species lives in Southwestern Europe. Genets are mostly nocturnal animals. Genets can crawl through openings as small as their heads.

Diet

Genets are omnivorous. Their diet consists of rodents, shrews, bats, birds, fish, bird eggs, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions and fruits like figs and olives. Sometimes they eat poultry. 

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Rainbows

Rainbow, rainbow in the rain 

When you disappear it gives me such pain

Seeing you is so much fun

You appear with the sun 

You come with a lot of colors

Blue is one of the colors

With the colors are how you are

We call your colors VIBGYOR

Sawfishes

Sawfishes or carpenter sharks are a species of ray which have a saw like snout. Its snout is used to catch fish. It also has electroreceptors (organs used to detect electrical pulses set off by humans) on its snout to sense passing prey. There is also a shark called the sawshark, but they are very different to the sawfish. There are seven species of sawfish (sawfish are not researched that much). Out of those seven, two live in the USA, two live in Australia, and the rest live in saltwater. The maximum length of a sawfish is 20 feet.

Diet

Sawfish eat small fish. They also eat crustaceans and other ground dwelling animals. Their snout is used as a digging tool.

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Seahorses

Seahorses are a species of fish related to the pipefish. But unlike most fish, seahorses have a horse shaped head. That is how its name 'seahorse' came from. It is also one of very few animals in which the males bear their young. Male seahorses have a pouch on their stomach, in which the female lays its eggs. The male fertilizes the eggs in their pouch. The male keeps the babies inside his pouch until the eggs hatch. The seahorse swims upright. They are only 0.6 inches to 14 inches long.

Diet

Seahorses attach themselves to coral with their long tails and gulp down plankton and small crustaceans that drift by. They graze continually for brine shrimp (a species of aquatic crustacean). A seahorse can eat 3,000 or more brine shrimp in a day.

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Slow loris

The slow loris is a species of primate related to the lemur. They are found in south and southeast Asia. There are only 8 species that are known. All of the slow loris species are either endangered or vulnerable. That is because slow lorises were used to being sold as pets. Their teeth were pulled out and then sold as pets. Their teeth are pulled out due to a belief that they have a 'toxic bite. They have a gland which produces toxins on their arm. They lick the gland and the toxin mixes with its saliva to activate it. That is how the 'toxic bite' is formed.

Diet

Slow lorises are omnivores. Their diet consists of 71% fruit and gums(a secretion from some trees and shrubs which is used in making adhesives) and 29% insects, small birds, reptiles etc. They also eat fruits and nectar.

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Fossa - The mistaken cat

Until recently, the Fossa was thought to be a primitive type of cat. The Fossa is 6 feet long from its nose to its tail tip. Its long tail helps it while hunting and moving through the tree branches. Its fur is reddish brown and its snout looks like a dog. Now it is known to be related to the mongoose. It is found in the forests of Madagascar. The Fossa is one of the most agile animals in the world. It is the largest carnivore in Madagascar. The Fossa is a solitary (lives on its own) animal.

Diet

The Fossa is known to eat lemurs. In fact, lemurs comprise up to half of its diet. It hunts lemurs by sneaking up on them when they are asleep. They hunt small and medium size animals, birds and even insects. They also hunt big prey in packs during the mating season.

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Tea

Tea, tea 

Piping hot

Plead for tea

And drink with glee 

Tarsiers

The Tarsier is a subspecies of primate living in forests on some islands in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Southern Philippines. It is further classified into The Philippine Tarsier, The Western Tarsier, The Eastern Tarsier and many more. Fossil records show that Tarsiers once lived in Europe, North America, Africa and mainland Asia. Tarsiers are built for their arboreal and nocturnal lifestyle. They have a little bit fat body, a long tail, long hind legs which enable them leap distances of up to 5 metres from branch to branch, and large eyes which measure 16mm across. The size of their eyes enables them to see in the dark. Their eyes are so big that the Tarsier cannot turn their eyes in their sockets. They have pads on their fingers and toes which help them to climb. They can turn their heads 180 degrees in both directions.

Diet

The Tarsier is the only fully carnivorous primate in the world. Their diet consists of insects, frogs, lizards, and small birds. Some species of Tarsier eat venomous snakes and small bats. Their long fingers and toes help them to catch prey flying in midair.

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Meerkats

Meerkats or Suricates are a species of mongoose that lives in the plains of South Africa. They are often seen in groups. Sometimes several families may live together in a large society. They are about the size of a large squirrel weighting less than 1 kg. They are famed for their upright posture. They often gaze around the plains where they live. Meerkats work in numbers. Some are lookouts, searching the sky for birds of prey that eat them, like hawks and eagles. A sharp, shrill call is the call to hide. A few meerkats guard the group.

Diet

A few meerkats forage for food for the group. They are omnivores. They eat insects, lizards, rodents, birds and fruit. When hunting together, they communicate using purring sounds. They are good hunters. Meerkats sometimes are tamed and trained to control rodents.

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