Vampire Bats

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/vampire-bat/

Grade: 6B
Date: 10/31/2011

Vampire bats biggest proffesion is to suck blood. But specific kinds of blood. They drink humans, cows, pigs, horses, and birds bloods. These vampire bats are located in Mexico and Central and South America. You might think that a vampire bat's bite would be very painful, but it's actually not! Did you know that a vampire bat can suck blood for 30 minutes straight without letting the animal wake. Pretty freaky, huh? But listen to this, even though they have wings (unlike us), they can still walk, run, and jump like any other human! But here is some good news. If the vampire bat can't find any blood for 2 days straight, it dies. But they can still get blood by another bat by sharing. Another fact about the similarities in human being and vampire bat. Are vampire bats really that scary??? Even though there bites aren't painful, they do spread a disease called rabies. But not in every bite they will spread the disease, but they COULD spread it. The vampire bat measures about........as much as your thumb! They're so small, you'll have to get a magnifying glass to see their  fangs. Some people think it's cool to have a vampire bat in their house so what they do is that they tame it. That's right! Own it. You can even put it as your pet.



Reflection about Vampire Bat

I picked this article because I thought it was cool that another kind of bat has come: especially a blood sucking one! I really liked this article because it had a lot of interesting, audience-catching, facts.  It also had pictures to proof it and a video, too. I  thought it was interesting to know these kinds of facts because I used to live in Panama and this crazy bat had come inside of our house! So we had to shew it away and got it out of the window. And so I started to wonder if it was just an ordinary bat or a vampire bat. The most surprising fact for me was that the vampire's bites are not painful, although they can spread a deadly disease. 

Monster Glowing Squid

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/monstersquid/


Japanese scientists discovered a monster glowing squid. The squid’s real name is Architeuthis. The squid weighs about 135 pounds (61 kilograms) and measured 7.6 feet long (2.3 meters). The last time they saw the architeuthis was in Maine 1993. Afterwards, they began to get extincted until a sperm whale was caught chasing after the squid. They say that its glowing arms can blind and stun the prey.

Reflection:

I think this was a very important article because the squid was found long time ago but they found it back! It is also a very special creature because it can glow in the water at night. What really surprised me was that the sperm whales can track the squids because they love to eat squids. So the japanese scientists use the sperm whales to track any squids.   

Reflection- Lungless Frog

The article "Lungless Frog" was interesting to me because it's a very rare species and nobody can breathe without lungs except the lungless frog! I learned a lot about the frog and all the information I need to know in the article. It is a very important article because they have discovered a very rare frog and with no lungs at all! That is why this article is important. 

Current Event- Lungless Frog

Lungless Frog

National geographic kids

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/animalsnature/lungless-frog/

An animal that can breathe through its skin and not through its lungs might sound a little alien-like, but strangely enough, this animal lives on Earth and is known as Barbourula kalimantanensis, the frog without lungs.The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs was found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It gets all of its oxygen through its skin. When they heard about the lungless frog, the biologists immediately partially dissected several frogs when they found out that one of the species had no lungs! The researchers said that the lungless frogs are adapted to the higher oxygen content in fast-flowing water. 

Scientific Summer

This summer, I went on on a floating bus in Budapest. This is very scientific because it's a bus that floats! But when I researched about it, then I knew how it worked. What they do is when the bus is on land, it's bus mode. But when it's in water, it turns to boat mode. Here is a picture of the floating bus!









Here is a video of the Floating Bus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLr-q6yJ4m0