Animals

JELLYFISH [|Jellyfish] are also known as jellies or sea jellies. You can find them in every ocean. A [|jellyfish] doesn't have a heart, eyes, bones, or a brain. In fact jellyfish are made up of 95% water, 4% mineral,% protein. If a jellyfish feels disturbed in any way....DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! If you touch it, it is very possible that it will sting you. Jellyfish can live about 500 years. They live almost anywhere in the ocean. They drift along with the oceans current. Jellyfish wash ashore when the waves come to the shore line. They can stay out of the water for about 3 or 4 hours before they die. Jellyfish can live in warm or cold water. Jellyfish eat [|plankton], fish eggs, small fish, and other jellyfish. [|Spadefish], [|sunfish], and loggerhead turtles eat jellyfish. Jellyfish looks like a bell or an umbrella. Jellyfish come to shore with the waves because they are not very good swimmers. A [|jellyfish] reproduces both sexually and asexually. That means that sometimes there are no boys or girls. So its like a mix of both.



[|California sea lion] The sea lion is in the seal family. Sea lions roar like a Lion. Sea lions can swim up to 20 mph. Sea lions live in huge groups to protect each each other. Colonies are huge groups of sea lion's they like colonies because they protect each other When a predictor comes they warn each other. Males can grow bigger than females usually but its possible for a bigger female than male on the beach. There diet is mainly fish, squid, octopus, crabs, clams, and lobster. They only have two predators, sharks and killer whales (orcas). They can live for 30 years. They hunt for 30 hours strait. When they hunt they have to stay under water. They can hold their breath for 5 minutes. A sea lion is a [|carnivore] it loves fish and crab they even know how to crush a crab shell. They weigh up to 600 to 800. California sea lions live in California and oregon.
 * CALIFORNIA SEA LION**

[|Orca] A.K.A. orcinus orca The orca is also called a killer whale. [|The male orca] is bigger and more bulkier than females, the average length of a male is 32 ft and can weigh over ten tons. Females are smaller than males. Orcas are all black except for a few patches of white on their bodies. Believe it or not but the orca whale has a diet its diet is mostly salmon. The dorsal fins on the male are longer than on the female. Killer whales are found in both the open ocean and coastal waters. The orca whale eats seals, sea lions, other whales, birds, & penguins. The population of the orca whale is unknown. The orca depends on seals, sea lions, and other animals. A lot of little carnivore fish depend on the killer whales for seal left overs. It has very thick skin. And the skin is lined with blubber. The blubber is a 3 to 4 inches thick. That keeps them warm in cold climates like in the arctic. [|Mating] usually occurs slightly more often during summer than spring. They mostly live in the arctic, they can live in mostly any type of fresh and salt water. Orcas can adapt to any type of climate basically.
 * ORCA**

=GREBE= When you go the beach you might see birds swimming in the water. One of the birds you might see is a grebe. The grebe is a medium sized bird, about a ruler and half in length. It's a beautiful bird with black feathers on back of its head and neck. The neck is very long, sometimes it has a brown neck or white speckles. Its oval eyes are red and it has a dot on the middle of it. The shape of its body is oval shaped and the feathers on its body are black and white speckled. The legs are stubby. The grebe's feet looks like feathers because they are not cobwebbed. The toes are separated like a frogs foot and they have small white nails. The cute grebe is fun to watch.

=AUKLET= Can a bird look like a rhino? Yes it can. A Rhinoceros Auklet is a bird that live around the ocean. It is a strange looking bird. It has a short and sharp orange beak with a black and white striped horn on it's beak. The horn looks like a unicorn horn. It has round,orange eyes and has white feathers on the bottom of the chin that looks like a mustache.this bird has a short, round, gray neck. It shaped like a penguin but it can fly and has longer wings. It has short stubby legs and three long fingers- like claws.the Rhinoceros Auklet is a funny looking bird.



= = =COMMOM MURRE= A Common Murre is a penguin-like bird. It is 17 inches long with dark black and white feathers. A Common Murre has black feathers on top from it beak to it tail and it has white feathers under neath form its neck to it legs. It has black eyes and a black pointy beck. It has a short neck and legs, but is feet are very long and black. So the next time you go to the ocean and you think you see a penguin it might be a Common Murre.