Students in Mrs. Burns’ second grade class researched and wrote a report about an endangered animal. They need to describe what the animal looked like, where it lived, what it ate, and why it was endangered.

Bengal Tigers

Bengal Tigers weigh 500 pounds or 190 kilograms. It’s 9 feet long and has a 3-foot long tail. Bengal Tigers eat deer, antelope, cattle, wild pigs, young rhinoceros, young elephant, peafowl, monkey, frogs and porcupines. Bengal Tigers live from Turkey to East Asia. Bengal Tigers are endangered because their habitat is being destroyed, and because people are hunting them because their bones, skin, teeth, and nails are medicine.

By Max Schaettler

Puma

The Puma has a small head, long neck, low slung body, and a long thick tail. The puma females weigh 90 to 135 pounds. The puma males weight average is 160 pounds. It is five feet long. It eats rabbits, deer, elk, and moose. It lives in Southern Canada and the tip of South America. It also lives in forests, brush land, grassland, or semi-deserts. Ranchers kill them because the ranchers think they’re going to kill their herd.

By Taryn Coolbaugh

Gray Wolf

The gray wolf has very sharp teeth. It has a long bushy tail.The gray wolf looks like a German Shepherd. The gray wolf is one of the biggest dogs. Most of the male wolves weigh from 75 to 120 pounds. They are from 5 to 6 ½ feet long. It has 42 sharp teeth. It mostly eats moose, deer, rabbits, beavers, fish, bison, elk, caribou, and birds. It lives in Canada, Alaska, North America, Europe, and Asia. They are almost gone because hunters have been killing them.

By Katie Grove

Snow Leopard

Snow leopards have pale gray colored hair marked with brown spots. It is 6 to 6 and two-thirds feet long. It eats mammals, deer, ibex, marmots and picas. It lives in the Tibetan highland. It is endangered because people kill them for their fur.

By Brendon Cook

Giant Panda

The Giant Panda is 5 to 6 feet long. It is white and black and has a short tail. It weighs 200 to 300 pounds. It eats over 25 pounds of bamboo a day. It lives in China. It is endangered because people keep cutting the forests. Every 15 to 120 years bamboo dies out.

By Maggi Zimmer

Sumatran Tiger

A Sumatran tiger weighs 120 kg. It has white spots and black ears. Its eyes have spots and predator spots. It is 8 feet long. It eats pig, deer, antelope, buffalo, bear or even guar and cow. It lives in the rain forest in Sumatra. People are poaching them and there is loss of their habitat.

By Michael Ramsey

Siberian Tiger

The male Siberian tiger weighs 419-675 pounds. It’s 9-12 feet head to tail. The female Siberian tiger weighs 221-368 pounds. The color of the Siberian tiger is orange, black, and white. The Siberian tiger eats meat and fish. The Siberian tiger eats 20 pounds of meat a day. The Siberian tiger lives in South China. The Siberian tiger is endangered because of poaching and habitat loss.

By Sydney Miller

Red Kangaroo

A red kangaroo can grow 6 to 8 feet tall. Not all of them are red. Males are bluish gray. It can weigh 18 pounds or 90kg. It eats plant and grasses. It lives in shrub lands, grasslands, and deserts. They are killed for their skin.

By Hannah Dalla Riva

Margay

The margay’s color is yellow and black with orange eyes. It is a spotted cat. It looks like a cat. The average weight is 2-3 kg. Its life span is 13-18 years. Its length is 2 feet with an 18-inch tail. The margay eats birds, small monkeys, tree frogs, insects and some times fruit. Where it lives is in the upper Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Texas, Mexico, and Central America. It is endangered for its fur and pet trade.

By Jay Buck

Maned Wolf

The maned wolf is 2.5 feet high and 1-3.5 feet long. Its tail is 18 inches long and it weighs 50 pounds. It has black legs and a red coat. It has a black and white tipped tail. It is a carnivore and it eats insects as well. It lives in South America. It is endangered because people are destroying its habitat.

By Brandon Springman

Clouded Leopard

The Clouded Leopard has a bushy tail. It is yellowish brown. It has two black bands on its cheeks and its side. It has short ears. It has black rounded gray central patches. It has black stripes and spots. It eats birds, primates and wild boar. It is endangered because people cut down trees. It is hunted for its pelt. They live in Asia. They live in trees. They also live in evergreen tropical rainforests.

By Will Hanfelder

Vancouver Island Marmot

Vancouver Island Marmots have rich brown fur. It has an 18-inch body and a 10-inch tail. It has a whitish muzzle. Adults grow to be as big as a housecat. It eats plants, seeds, roots, flowers, and fruits. It lives on Vancouver Island in the mountains. Loggers keep cutting down trees for ski mountains. Then the skiers hit the Vancouver Island marmots.

By Brandon Jones

Asiatic Lion

The Asiatic lion has a yellow-brown shade of fur and a black nose. It is 2.9 m. in length and weighs 350-400 pounds or 159-180 kilograms. The male is 9 feet in length or 3 meters. It eats mice, cattle, deer, and antelope zebra and other hoofed animals. It drinks water. It lives in Asia, India. Some might travel in groups. It is endangered because it protects it’s territory. It eats the cattle and gets poisoned. It’s population shrunk so much that there were less than 2 dozen left. Thousands of lions got killed.

By Kathleen Newman

Komodo Dragon

A Komodo Dragon is 10 feet long. It weighs 200 pounds. Its skin is brown. It has sharp claws and teeth. The Komodo Dragon eats meat like deer, wild boar, buffalo and even humans. Komodo Dragons live on Komodo Island by water. People used to kill them and they’re killed for killing livestock.

By Chris Johnson

Thick Billed Parrot

The thick-billed parrot is endangered because of its predators such as raptors, red tailed hawks, goshawks, peregrine falcons and the ring tailed cats. The thick billed parrot lives in Arizona, Sierra Madre and Occidental, Mexico. The thick-billed parrot eats pinecones, acorns, buds from conifers and other foods. Thick-billed parrots are generally green with a broad red band on their foreheads and a red splotch on its wings. The thick-billed parrot is 15 inches long. The thick billed parrot’s eggs incubation period is 28 days. The thick-billed parrots have 1 to 4 offspring.

By Michael Oltman

Manatee

The manatee is endangered because people ride powerboats over them without seeing them. A long time ago people used to eat them, the skin was used for leather and the blubber was used for oil. The Manatee is a vegetarian. It eats plants, fish, hydrilla, seagrasses and water hyacinths. It eats fish only if fish is in the sea plants. It eats 100 pounds of food a day. It eats for 7 hours a day. It is 8-14 ft. long. It is dark gray-brown at birth. It is bulky, balloon-like and weighs 3,500 lbs. It lives in warm shallow waters like Florida, Central America, West Indian Islands and Western Africa.

By Kathryn Silva

Red Wolf

A Red wolf eats deer. A red wolf has 42 teeth. It can eat as much as 20 pounds of food at one time. People make coats out of the wolf’s fur. Red wolves live in places like Southeastern and Eastern North America. A red wolf has a white face and brown fur. A red wolf is larger than a coyote and smaller than a gray wolf. Male red wolves range from 50 to 85 pounds, and females are from 40 to 75 pounds. They typically have a brownish white tail. People like to make fur coats out of furry animals.

By Maia Bush

Cheetah

A Cheetah is 30 to 36 inches long (70 to 90 centimeters.) It weighs 77 to 132 pounds (35 to 60 kilograms.) It has a yellowish-brown coat with black spots, except for the throat and underparts, which are white to yellowish-white with black spots. Cheetahs eat meat or are carnivores. Cheetahs live in Africa’s grasslands. People have hunted the Cheetah for its pelt. The animal’s grassland habitat has been changed into farming and manufacturing land.

By Dian