National Geographic Kids - Special Issue: Endangered Animals and more - Read by Ava DeVoe - AIRSLA
Feb 5, 2024
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Join Allyson Shaw, animal rights advocate, as she shares tips on how individual actions can significantly help endangered species. Julie Beer and Michelle Harris tickle your brain with quirky facts, including the slimiest animal! Laura Goertzel and Liz Lane discuss fascinating feats found in the Guinness World Records, featuring odd performances and bizarre animal behaviors. This lively discussion blends conservation with unbelievable animal trivia, making it both educational and entertaining!
Small actions, like providing food or installing window stickers, can significantly help protect endangered animals from human interactions.
The hagfish, equipped with unique characteristics like multiple hearts and mucous defense, exemplifies the fascinating diversity of ocean life.
Deep dives
Tips for Protecting Endangered Animals
Small actions can make a significant impact in protecting endangered animals. For instance, providing food or water to wild animals can encourage dangerous interactions with humans and vehicles, while flushing medications can contaminate waterways, harming marine life. Simple measures like installing stickers on windows can prevent birds from flying into reflective surfaces, and allowing native flowers to flourish can support pollinators like bees and butterflies. Additionally, recycling electronics can help protect gorilla habitats by reducing the demand for coltan extraction.
Unique Characteristics of Hagfish
The hagfish stands out as the slimiest animal with its ability to fill a bucket with slime in under a second, using this mucus as a defense mechanism against predators. It boasts a unique anatomical structure, having a skull made of cartilage but no true spinal column, along with at least three hearts, and is almost blind despite having eyes. This fascinating creature is a scavenger, consuming dead fish on the ocean floor and is noted for its quirky behavior, such as sneezing when its nostrils fill with slime. Hagfish exemplify the diversity of life in the oceans, showcasing adaptations that are both strange and effective.
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Empowering Conservation: Tips and Fascinating Animal Facts
Special Issue: Endangered Animals - 10 Tips to Help Animals, by Allyson Shaw. Animals need more than laws to protect them- they need you, too! See how small actions can help make big changes.
BIG Question, by Julie Beer. What's the slimiest animal?
Weird but True! By Julie Beer and Michelle Harris. Check out these outrageous facts.
Guinness World Records, by Laura Goertzel and Liz Lane. Very Important Bear, Huge Decorations, and Woman Dances on Head!
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