The global goals is a society of people that joined this group to solve world problems. Under goal number 13 and 15, the Bobcat has a right to be amongst us.
How can we prevent these animals from going extinct? Beginning in 2004, Defenders is coming together with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish Wildlife to track, capture, and put collars on Bobcats in the State of New Jersey in order to determine their movement and the habitats that are important for the Bobcat's survival. This valuable data will help biologists create a protection and management strategy that focuses on preserving the most critical bobcat information and habitat. (www.defenders.com)
Enough facts about the bobcat, let's get to the part why they are endangered. The reason a lot of them got hunted was for their fur. They got hunted into semi- extinction. Now humans have mostly stopped hunting these animals for their fur, so their populations has grown a little bit. In Mexico, Bobcats are hunted by farmers for fear they kill and eat their sheep. They also are dying because of habitat destruction. Right now there are approximately 725,000 Bobcats left in the world.
The name of my creature that I am researching is the Bobcat. The scientific name of the Bobcat is Lynx Rufus. Its domain is in the northern states of North America, and down lower, in Mexico. It is one of the top predators of its domain. This amazing animal, like its name, is also related to the Lynx, another top predator of the same domain. Some special adaptations this animal has is it’s thick fur for the freezing winter there in the far north. The habitat of a bobcat widely varies from forests and mountains, to semi-desert and brush land. Bobcats like to live in habitats with lots of vegetation and a lot of prey.
Bobcats are excellent hunters, catching their prey with stealth and patients, then catching their prey with one great leap.(www.defenders.com) The main diet of these animals are small but tricky to catch, like hares and rabbits.
Bobcats are solitary and territorial animals. Female bobcats never overlap each other's territory; males on the other hand might overlap. Territories of females cover up to 5 square miles, males have 25-30 square miles, a lot more than the female bobcats. (www.defenders.com) Their main den is usually a cave or rock shelter, but can be a hollow log, fallen tree, or some other protected place. (Also called the natal den.) An auxiliary den is normally located in less-visited portions of the home range and is often brush piles, rock ledges or stumps. These are also called “shelter dens”.
The animal I am studying is the Bobcat, the scientific name is Lynx Rufus. The reason I choose this animal is because I loved this animal since I was little, nobody else choose it, and because they are an endangered species, there are very little of them in the wild.
Two things I want to know about the animal is how are the international laws protecting these endangered species, what are they doing to help?
Another thing would be is: is their habitat / their pray affecting their population, is it taking part of
For the Beliefs/Religions project, I started by choosing a religion that I was curious about. For this unit, I chose the KKK
Knowing that all research is a process, I first filled out a "Big 6" plan, thinking about my topic, the information I would need, the sources I could use, and the project I wanted to make.
After that we made a speech which we were supposed to record on iMovie. After that we put pictures on the iMovie and we did a works cited for it.
After doing all those steps we presented our presentation to the whole class. Then we all put the presentations on YouTube.
If you haven't made a voki before than I will tell you how to do it, I also have a video below. So first to make a voki you need to go to voki. You have to pay for the acounts, but it is worth it. Then put your email you made when you paid. Then to make a make voki press "make new voki," then you have to chose your background, after that you need to make a character. Then you are finished making the image of the voki, now you need to make the voki speak by pressing "add text," in a grey blank space. Write in that space what you want the voki to say. After that you have press "save," to save your voki. After doing all of that your prezi is finally finished.
Our group went through allot of difficulties in the proses of making our prezi presentation. The first thing we did was chose our topic and we finaly decided on mummies. After that we had to fill in this sheet which asked us what we were going to talk about in Ancient Egyptian Mummies. After that we made note cards in citelighter. After doing the note cards we started making the prezi, We made it decorative and all. After we made the prezi we made the speech. I mostly did the prezi and he mostly did the speech. At home then we memorized the speech and then when it finally came our turn to present we prezented. Our presentation was okay, we stumbled a little bit because we were really nurvous.
