Weekly Activities/ Day 18 / Activity 2/ Week 4

Activity 2

When you are at the zoo, you have the chance to learn about some animals that are specifically found in your country. They are called ‘indigenous’ animals. This means that they are originally from your country. Use Google to identify two indigenous animals from your country. On your blog, post a picture of the animals and tell us a bit about them. What are they called? Where do they live? What do they eat?

1. Wild Boars:

This animal is called a: Wild Boar. A Wild Boar is  like a wild Pig. A Wild Boar is  a medium sized animal. Wild Boars have long rubbery snouts which they commonly use for digging up the underground roots. Wild Boars eats different types of foods such as: nuts ,roots ,small birds ,eggs , grass fruits and mushrooms. Most of the Wild Boars are often found in the forests of Europe.

     2. Badgers:

This animal are often called the Badgers. Badgers has an open space to live in the countryside of Germany in the forests. Badgers eat omnivore(a new word I come across) which means that Badgers eat food such as insects roots, fruits and plants.Badgers usually hunts food at night and sleeps at dawn inside its  burrow  (which is a tunnel where they nap).

Want to know more about this specific Badger?

• Well, did you know that Badgers can survive without any food for 3 months. “Unbelievable right!”
• Lastly did you know.. That Badgers dig faster than a person with a shovel. “ Amazing!”

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