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2. Contents:
 The Plains Click an option
to begin!
 Elephants and Baboons
 Rhinos, Lions, and Giraffes
 Pop Quiz
 The Forest
 Tigers and Bears
 Gibbons, Otters and Lemurs
 Pop Quiz
 The Oceans
 Walruses and Dolphins
 Polar Bears, Seals & Seal Lions
 Pop Quiz

3. The Plains
Guinea baboons are an Old
World Monkey, and the
smallest species of baboon.
Baboons
Elephants
African Elephants are the largest
land mammal in the world, males growing
from 12-13 feet, 7-8 tons (14,000-16,000 lbs)!
Elephants grow their whole lives.
Their trunks are used to
The average age for
breathe, communicate, lift
Guinea baboons is
objects, and the trunk can
25-30 yrs.
hold up to 2 gallons of water!
The trunk has two finger-like appendages that
can pick up items as small as a dime!

4. The Plains Lions
Most of
the
The natural hunting
habitat is done
of the White by the
Rhino females
is the lions.
Savanna The natural habitat of the
Grasslands. African Lion is in the rich
Rhinos grasslands and sandy deserts.
White Rhinos are not named A lion’s roar can be
for their color, but by the heard 5 miles away!
Afrikaan’s word
“weit”, meaning wide mouth. Giraffe’s tongues are
able to delicately pluck
leaves while avoiding thorns.
Their tongues are black
Giraffes and can extend up to
20 inches!

5. The Plains
Pop Quiz!!
How long can a giraffe’s tongue extend?
A. 30 inches
B. 20 inches
C. 10 inches
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for the
answer!

6. The Plains
Pop Quiz!!
How long can a giraffe’s tongue extend?
A. 30 inches
B. 20 inches
C. 10 inches
B. 20 inches!

7. The Forest
Tigers
The Siberian
Tiger is the
largest of all
tigers, males
weighing up The Kodiak is a species of brown
to 616 lbs and bear, and the largest of the brown
growing bears.
almost 7ft
long! The Kodiak
bear has
one of the
The stripes on a tiger’s face is
most
like the thumbprint of a
powerful
human. No two are the same!
senses of
smell in
Bears nature.

8. The Forest
Gibbons Ring-tailed
lemurs live
in a
Gibbons are
matrilineal
found in
society
the upper
(dominated
canopies of
by a female).
Asian Lemurs
forests.
Lemurs enjoy sunbathing!
Gibbons swing quickly
through trees with a hand-
over-hand motion called Otters
brachiate swinging.
Otters let their collected clams
sit in the sun so the shells will open.
Then the otters wash their food
Asian Small Clawed Otters before eating!
are the smallest in the world
(2ft long and under 10 lbs).

9. The Forest
Pop Quiz!!
The only enemy of the tiger
is human.
The gibbon enjoys which of the
A. True following?
B. False
A. Singing duets
B. Dancing
C. Playing on the ground
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for the
answers!

10. The Forest
Pop Quiz!!
The only enemy of the tiger
is human.
The gibbon enjoys which of the
A. True following?
B. False
A. Singing duets
B. Dancing
C. Playing on the ground
True.
The tiger’s habitat faces
depletion, and being hunted by A. Singing! Gibbons mate for
man poses a major threat. life and then enjoy singing
with their partner!

11. The Oceans
Walruses
Under its
layer of
skin,
the walrus
may have Bottlenosed
up to 6 Dolphins
inches of are
fat! classified
as toothed
whales!
Dolphins
The walrus can dive up to 250 deep, Because of the dangers of fishermen and
for as long as 10 minutes, pollution, the average life span of a
and its sensitive bristles on its bottlenosed dolphin is 17 years in the wild.
mustache are used to locate food! In an ideal environment, the potential
age is 40-50 years!
Click here for the walrus cam!

12. The Oceans
Polar Bears Seals
Grey seals
A polar can remain
bear’s under water
stomach for up to 20
Can hold minutes at
more than up to 475 ft.
150lbs!
Neither male or female seals eat
The fur of the polar bear is for the 4-6 week breeding period.
actually not white. Each
individual hair is a clear, hollow Sea Lions
tube. The reflection from the sun Sea lions have
makes the fur appear white over external ear flaps.
the bear’s black skin.
They come to shore
to rest and breed.
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13. The Oceans
Pop Quiz!!
California Sea Lions mate for life. The walrus’ family name,
Obobenidae, means which of
A. True
the following?
B. False
A. Tusk Fighter
B. Tusky Sea Elephant
C. One who walks with his teeth
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answers!

14. Pop Quiz!!
The Oceans
California Sea Lions mate for life. The walrus’ family
name, Obobenidae, means
A. True
which of the following?
B. False
A. Tusk Fighter
B. Tusky Sea Elephant
False. C. One who walks with his teeth
In one season male sea lions
can mate with up to C. “One who walks with his
16 females! teeth” is the Greek
meaning for Obobenidae.

15. A-has:
 I have created
Powerpoint presentations
before, but never with
hyperlinks. It was fun!
 I learned I could adjust
the timing of the
information in the slides
manually.
 I was impressed with
additional facts I learned
about otters- particularly
how intelligent they are with
catching food and eating.

16. Credits:
 All information was
gathered from the
website of the
Indianapolis Zoo.
Indyzoo.org