"Alfred Alligator" Alpha's ABC's Featured Character

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"Alfred Alligator"

Hey Kids! Alpha's ABC's Featured Character

October 3rd 2011 Is:       "Alfred Alligator"

Here are a few interesting Alligator facts :
 
American alligators are mostly found in the southeastern United States. You're most likely to spot them in Florida and Louisiana, where they live in creeks, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, bayous, and marshes. Alligators are reptiles and are kind of clumsy on land, but they're built for life in the water. Great swimmers, they have webbed feet and very strong tails that propel them through the water. 
An average male American alligator is 10 to 15 feet  (three to five meters) long. Half of its length is its massive, strong tail. An alligator can weigh as much as half a ton (1,000 pounds), but the average male gator weighs between 500 and 600 pounds . Females are usually smaller than males. 
Female alligators may look pretty ferocious but they are actually really good mothers to their young. A mother alligator builds a nest on shore close to the water and this is where she lays her eggs. She then guards thoser eggs until they're ready to hatch. At that point the babies start to make noises, and their mother hears her little ones' peeps as they break out of the eggs. She gently carries them in her mouth to the water.
Newly hatched young are only about six to eight inches long, and are very vulnerable. Their mother protects them from predators, which include raccoons, bobcats, birds, and even other alligators. The young alligators stay with their mom for up to two years. After that, they're pretty much ready to make it on their own.
In the wild, an American alligator generally lives to be 35 to 50 years old. Alligators can live longer, for 60 to 80 years in captivity. A group of alligators is called a congregation.

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Alpha's ABC's Featured Character October 2nd 2011

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"Zack Zebra"

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Alpha's Featured Character For Today October 2nd 2011 

Here are a few interesting Zebra facts:

There is no mistaking what you're seeing when you spot a horse like animal with black-and-white stripes: it's a zebra. And each zebra has its own unique pattern of those distinctive stripes, just as humans have their own unique pattern of fingerprints.
No two sets of stripes or fingerprints are exactly the same. Zebras may even use stripe patterns to help them recognize different individuals.
Scientists have several theories about other reasons zebras have stripes. Camouflage leads the list. Stripes make a herd of zebras look confusing to a predator, especially when they are moving, and particularly at sunrise and sunset. 
It is very hard to tell where one zebra ends and another one begins when they are all bunched together like this in a herd. If a predator, let's say a lion can't pick out an individual zebra to zero in on for a kill, it's less likely to succeed in bringing one down for a meal.
If a zebra is picked out of a herd by a predator such as a lion, leopard, hyena, or cheetah, its main defense after running, is a few powerful kicks with its hind legs.
The Zebra's main diet is grass. They also eat bark and leaves, as well as buds, fruit, and roots. They graze during the day, making sure they stick together in their herd.

As with horses, male zebras are called stallions, females are mares, and the young are called foals.

When a Zebra is munching out, it uses its sharper front teeth to bite the grass, and then uses its back teeth to crush and grind. A zebra's teeth keep growing for its entire life, because constant eating and chewing wears them down.

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Alpha's Yale Yak

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Alpha's ABC's Featured Character October 1st 2011:  "Yale Yak"

Here are a few interesting facts about Yaks 

The wild yak has a dense undercoat covered by generally dark brown to black outer hair, which almost reaches to the ground. The male wild yak can weigh up to 2200 pounds and is 6.5 feet high at the shoulder. Females weigh about a third of that. Their horns can be 20 (females) to 40 (males) inches long and grow out from the sides of the head and curve upward. Their tails are bushy.

Wild yak live in alpine meadows and on the steppes in Asia. They live at the highest altitude of any mammal. They graze on grasses, herbs, moss, lichens, and tubers. In the winter wild yak can crunch ice or snow for water.

Female yak and young congregate in large herds, while the males are more solitary or form much smaller groups. Yaks have a cleft or split hoof, which makes them agile over rocky or icy ground.

Yaks possess great lung capacity so they can absorb more oxygen. Their digestive system is also designed to keep them warm.

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