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The rainforest is a diverse ecosystem with a diverse range of plant and animal life. This makes it an ideal place to find food for many animals including monkeys! More than 30 species of monkeys live exclusively in the rainforest of the world (and more than 300 species in total!), where they eat everything from…
Like all other reptiles, snakes have hearts that makes their blood circulate. Blood circulation is vital to snakes because it brings around the nutrients and oxygen that the cells of the snake need to survive! A snake’s heart is located about one fourth body length down from its head. For snakes that live on the…
Flamingos start out as grey fluffy chicks that in a matter of months grow real feathers that slowly turn pink! The diet that they eat is essential for their optimal development and for them to obtain their recognizable pink feather coat. The first few weeks after hatching, baby flamingos eat ‘crop milk’ produced by their…
There are many different animals that can be found living in bushes. Some of these animals are mammals, such as mice and other rodents, but most are insects and the birds that eat them! Animals that can be found in bushes include caterpillars, spiders, beetles, flies, and other insects such as roaches and bees,…
The American goldfinch is a small garden bird commonly found in large flocks throughout the US, southern Canada, and central Mexico. Their natural habitat is open meadows, but they often flock to bird feeders in suburban areas. Even though American goldfinches do occasionally eat smaller insects such as aphids and ants, goldfinches do not eat…
Tadpoles are amphibian animals that hatch from eggs and eventually turn into frogs. They live in freshwater where they feed mostly on algae and other microorganisms. They are herbivores and decomposers, which means that they feed on both living and dead plant and animal matter in the water. Whereas tadpoles mostly eat microorganisms and smaller…
Magpies, like other birds of the Corvid family (including crows and ravens), are omnivores and eat a variety of food items. This includes their babies, that mostly eat insects in their first weeks of life. Adult magpies feed on a broad diet of smaller animals, eggs, seeds, and carrion and they will even attack larger…
Tadpoles are the larvae stage of frogs and they are too small to eat insects like grown up frogs do. Therefore they eat a variety of smaller particles floating around in the water or attached to surfaces that they can lick off! Tadpoles eat mostly microorganisms and they majority of these are algae and bacteria.…
Most tents available today are made of synthetic lightweight fabrics like nylon or polyester. The difference between 10D through 40D nylon fabrics is the thickness of the thread used in the tent sheet fabric. Whereas 10D nylon threads only weigh 1.1g/Km, 40D nylon is four times heavier at 4.4g/Km. Nylon is the superior fabric…
Polyester fabric is a synthetic fabric found in numerous objects including clothing items, furniture, and tents! Here we will focus on the latter application for tent fly sheets, and dive into what the different types of polyester mean for your choice of tent, but everything in this article will also apply to other objects made…