My Favourite Science Topic By: Claire MacKay-Dietrich
Feb 10, 2016
My Favourite Science TopicBy: Claire MacKay-Dietrich
My favourite topic was when we learnt about Madagascar and we became experts on certain species. I did mammals of Madagascar.
This is the ring-tailed lemur I had to research on how lemurs are different from other primates.
I enjoyed this unit because I got to research on animals I didn’t know much about and I had lots of fun making the Powerpoint which I made entirely by myself.
I also researched on why the kinkajou is not a lemur, the loris, bushbabies, the potto, tarsiers and the angwantibo.
The kinkajou is not a lemur!
Facts!O The four ridges on the bush baby's
ears allow the ears to wrinkle up!O Bush babies have a second tongue!O Bush babies can jump 2m!O Lorises are poisonous!O Slow lorises have extra vertebrate!O Lemur means “spirits of the dead”
because they are nocturnal and they howl really loud!
O Prosimian means “before monkey”!O Prosimians have been around for 65
million years!O Red-ruffed lemurs are extremely
vocal, early explorers mistook the sounds for groans/wails of the dead!
O Kinkajou genetic studies show it belongs to the family Procyonidae (Raccoon Family)!
Thank You!
Next time though I could add more photos and make the slides less busy.
Bye! Thanks for listening!
Any Questions?