Week of 11/12 to 11/16: Forest REPTILeS, mammals and plants

basilisk lizard

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•  Found in tropical rainforests
  
• Throughout Central America and in northwestern South America

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danger noodles

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Forest Reptiles and Amphibians: https://kids.mongabay.com

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predators

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Tigers: Found in Siberian taiga. Tigers occupy a variety of habitats from tropical forests, evergreen forests, woodlands and mangrove swamps to grasslands, savannah and rocky country. They live primarily in eastern Russia's birch forests, though some exist in China and North Korea. 

https://sibexpeditions.com/what-is-siberia/

• The population of Siberia just 22.5 million people. It is the most sparsely populated country in the world, except Antarctica.
• Trans-Siberian Mainline and Baikal-Amur Mainline are the longest railways in the world.
• The Siberian taiga is the largest forest on the planet Earth. It is several times larger than even the Amazon jungle.
• Siberian Lake Baikal contains 20% of world reserves of fresh water on the planet Earth, and is the deepest lake in the world (1642 m).

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leopards

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• Snow leopards live in the mountains of Central Asia
• Leopards are found throughout most of Africa and Asia from the middle east to the Soviet Union, Korea, China, India, and Malaysia.
• Leopards live in a variety of habitats including forests, mountains, grassland and deserts.
• habitata: https://peerj.com/articles/1974/

Cloud Leopard

Snow Leopard

Armur Leopard

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There is a whole world of predator cats, more information here: 

https://www.felineworlds.com/leopard-habitat-and-distribution/

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canines

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Wolf: native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America. 

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foxes

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mustelids

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• Mustelidae are a family of carnivorous mammals
  
• Weasels, badgers, otters, martens, mink, and wolverines, among others.

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Less carnivorous animals

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Primates

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• Most primates are omnivores, they mainly eat insects as meat
• There are strepsirrhines and haplorhines, wet nose and dry nose
• Strepsirrhines: wet nose, lemurs of Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and southeast Asia
• Haplorhines:  dry nose, suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians
  •  simians include catarrhines, and the platyrrhines
  • platyrrhine means flat-nosed, while catarrhine means hook-nosed

Lemur:

Ring-tailed Lemur: howstuffworks.com/

Madagascar:

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Bush Baby:

• Bush babies are found throughout East Africa
• In woodlands and bushlands in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Potto:

• nocturnal tree dweller
• found in rainforests from Sierra Leone eastward to Uganda
• ​eat insects
  

Loris:

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haplorhines

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suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians

•  simians include catarrhines, and the platyrrhines
• platyrrhine means flat-nosed, while catarrhine means hook-nosed

• Simians: are monkeys and apes
  • Platyrrhines: New World monkeys
    • ​​five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Central and South America and Mexico: Tamarin, Spider Monkeys, Capuchin
  • Catarrhine: Old World monkeys and apes 
    • ​​gibbons, great apes, and humans
    • distinguished by having nostrils that are close together and directed downward

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simians

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gorilla Nest

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great apes

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rodents

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Capybara

• largest rodent in the world
• over 80 pounds
• Capybaras are semi-aquatic, spending a lot of time in the water.
• They inhabit southern Central America and northern South America in both savannas and rain forests near ponds, rivers, or lakes

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agouti

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• 2 lbs
• eats Brazil Nuts

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flying squirrel

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and rabbits: the lagomorphs

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honorable mention that did not politely fit into my concept map: SUgar GLider

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• The sugar glider is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal
• gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass
• preference for sugary foods like sap and nectar
• ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel

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boars

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​ native to much of Eurasia

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forest marsupials

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remember gondwanaland

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Tree dwelling marsupials

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​Panda: not quite bears, not marsupials

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• Family: Ursidae, same as bear but split off
• Genus: Ailuropoda 
• ​(Panda says" I am the only animal in this genus")

• not a marsupial: 
• Genus: Ailuridae (Red panda says "same")
• native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China

There was a carnivorous ancestor, Ailurarctos that lived in China 8+ million years ago. 

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bears

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environmental issues

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bioremediation: Human Hair

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bioremediation: fungi

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chitin and keratin

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plants

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butterfly lay eggs in trees

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butterfly egg gallery on Google arts and culture

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beetles interact with trees

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great forests

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trees manage freshwater

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conscious industrial engineering

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making things from fungi

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reimagine food trays

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