Today I went to zoo classes at our zoo. Today, my group were supposed to present a question about an animal, and solve it by using the supplies chosen by us. We came up with the question, Do Tigers like to be on rocks, or on the ground? We used a laser thermometer to see what temperatures the ground and the rocks were. Believe it or not, it was warmer on the rocks (where the majority of the tigers were) than on the ground by about six degrees.
We also did an ethogram to track what the tigers were doing over a period of time. It turns out that all but one of the tigers were not on the rocks. I also found out that most zoologists will use ethograms to monitor an animals activities.
Overall I found that the tigers tend to stay wherever it is warm.
BELOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ETHOGRAM
For my schoolwork I do a subject called current events. It is when I search official news sites for an interesting story to write a summary about. Two days ago I was reading about a sink hole incident on CNN. The people lived in Florida and lived in a place known for its sink holes. Bush, 36, fell into a 20 foot wide and 50 foot deep hole in his bedroom, pretty scary right? He is currently presumed dead
His brother jumped into the hole to look for him, but luckily he made it out OK. Although emotionally he was pretty torn up
The story on CNN is here
Recently, my mom has found these journals called smash books. It is basically a journal that you smash stuff you want to remember in. It is kind of nice that I can do whatever I want to do with the page instead of having a strict code to follow.
It is basically an everything book. You can use whatever you want where every you want without the hassle of having to make it symmetrical . I found some really cool ideas on this site. It is really cool what you can do with a smash book. If you look on Google and type in "smash book ideas" you will find TONS of ideas.
For a school project my mom went to a seed store to buy some grass and clover seed to grow in our house in little yogurt containers. The guy from the store ended up just giving us two tiny bags full of grass seed for free and one small bag of clover seed.
It took about four days for the topsoil that we bought to unfreeze. Once it unfroze mom planted the seeds. I do not have a green thumb, I even have killed a cactus because I did not water it enough. Who kills a cactus?! I still have the HUGE pot I used to grow it in, so I used that instead of the little yogurt cups.
What I did is that I put all three seeds in one pot each on a side and see which one thrived the most. So far we don't have any grass yet.
