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amphibian

  • semi-aquatic
  • eggs layed in water
  • life stages
  • cold blooded

Peregrine Falcon

Barred tiger salamander

  • Kansas state amphibian
  • largest native Kansas salamander growing to almost a foot in length
  • eats insects, slugs, and worms
  • can reach over 200 miles per hour while swooping making it the fastest animal
  • distinctive black head with moustache over its beak
  • nests in an area theu scrape out of cliffs

Bald Eagle

  • Vision is at least four times better than that of someone with perfect vision
  • Can lift a four pound fish out of the water
  • Population declined after WW2 when DDT was used and also shootings
  • Population went from 417 breedings pairs to 9,789 breeding pairs

Five lined skink

  • prefer moist partially wooded areas
  • can detach tail to distract predators while running away
  • Bright blue tail fades into brown or black front with five white or yellow lines running down its back

Native Kansas Animals

Birds

Reptiles

  • lay and incubate eggs
  • hollow bones
  • feathers and beaks

By: Reagan Hitt

  • scales
  • lay eggs on land
  • cold blooded

Redbelly snake

  • Has a reddish brown or slate grey dorsal side (top part) with a red-orange or jet-black belly
  • Protected by the Kansas endangered species act
  • 8-10 in. long

River otter

  • Semi-aquatic
  • Tail allows to swim up to 7 mph
  • On its back has soft oily under furs mixed in with longer glossy hairs that serve as guard hairs

Western ornate box turtle

  • Flattened shell
  • Kansas state reptile
  • Generally live 25-30 years

Wild Horse

  • Became extinct but were brought back by spanish explorer hernan cortes
  • Nearly 7,000 horses roam in 60,000 acres of privately owned land in the flint hills
  • Native horses had three toes and were smaller than today's horses

Arthropods

  • multiple sets of legs
  • segmented body
  • exoskeleton
  • lay eggs

Mammals

  • Give live birth
  • Drink/Produce milk
  • Hair/Fur

Longnose gar

Fairy Shrimp

  • sharp needle like teeth
  • snout is over twice as long as distance from eyes to back of its head
  • lifespan of 15-20 years

Walleye

Fish

  • Important food source for fish and birds (pintails and mallards)
  • Thin Flexible exoskeleton
  • swims upside down
  • walleye were introduced into Kansas in the 1960's
  • spiny gill cover
  • golden hues on its flanks

red harvester ant

  • lay eggs in water
  • no legs or arms
  • live and breathe in water using gills for whole life
  • leaves hulls of seeds outside thier dens
  • Grind seeds into gruel using mandibles
  • Queen may produce anywhere from a year to decades worth of eggs
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