How does it get oxygen?

All animals need oxygen for cellular respiration. Plants need oxygen, too. Most organisms do, although for some bacteria and archaeans oxygen is toxic. Humans are mammals, and like all mammals they use lungs to get oxygen out of the air. Find out about how other animals get oxygen for cellular respiration. Again, remember that invertebrates such as worms, snails and insects are also animals. Write 2 interesting facts about the respiration system of your animal choice.

Blood Thirst!!

For those of you who have read the Twilight Series, or are reading it, you know that blood plays a focal point of the plot. For those of you who haven't read and/or don't want to, its about vampires. Vampires use blood as their food source to survive. While vampires are a creation of fiction, sometimes fact is even stranger. There are a variety of animals that feed on other animals' blood. Mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches, bed bugs, and vampire bats are just a few. There's even a vampire finch that drinks the blood of other birds.

Do some research of your own about one of these animals or another type of sanguivore (blood eaters.) Write a short paragraph (5-6 sentences) about what you learned about them. Please no paragraphs on human vampires!

Cardiovascular System

You’ve been learning about the human heart. Our heart has 4 chambers and is divided into a left and a right side. What about other animals? Find out about the hearts of fish, amphibians, reptiles, or birds. Just pick one and tell how many chambers their heart has and how it pumps blood through their bodies.

Digestive System

All animals need to eat in some fashion to get energy. Do all animals have esophagi, stomachs and intestines? Remember caterpillars, worms and sponges are animals, too. Pick an animal and find out one fact about the digestive system of that animal. Post your fact in the comment section of the blog by Friday 3/13. Please only post once and remember to use only your first name and last initial.