Animals of Louisiana

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Animals of Louisiana!!!
Muskrat
Nutria
Herons
Salamanders
Turtles
Snakes
Bibliography.
Authors page
Alligators
Egrets
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Nutria
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• An adult nutria is about 14 inches long from the
  nose to the base of the tail. 
• The tail is about12 to 17 inches long it is
  round, and hairless. 
• The whiskers are about 4 inches long.
• They have 20 teeth, and include 4 large incisors
  that allows the nutria to cut off underwater
  plants without getting water into its mouth.
• Nutria average weight is 16 to 18 pounds.
• There front feet have five toes the hind feet are
  much larger.
• All of the toes are connected by a skin web
  except for the little toe.

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  They live in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and
Florida. There are a lot of other nutrias in the
areas of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland as well as in the waterways
of Washington and Oregon.
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Egrets
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• Egrets eat small fishes, frogs, lizards, snakes,
  shrimps, fiddler crabs, crawfishes, grasshoppers
  and water insects.
• Great egrets live in the water.
• They live near marshes.
• They fly south for the winter. They go far north
  in the summer.
• Great egrets make their nests high up in trees.
• Their nests are made of sticks.
• They have five or six eggs.

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Muskrat
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They eat crayfish, frogs, dead animals. Minks,
herons and hawk eat muskrats.
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Muskrat are found anywhere in north America.
They live in wetlands and marshes.
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Herons

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The great white heron eats fish, Frogs,
tadpoles, snakes, mice, young birds And insects.
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The great blue heron eats fish,
frogs,salamanders, snakes and small mammals. They
live in north America. They are 38and 54 inches
in length.
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Salamanders
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• About salamanders
• Louisianas state salamander is the slimy
  salamander
• It eats mites, spiders, centipedes, millipedes
• Also earth worms, insects, snails
• They lay eggs in the summer under rotten logs

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Turtles
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• About turtles
• The cypress turtle is the state turtle
• they grow up eight inches long
• It has red markings around the edge of its
  shell
• the shell has little plates called scutes
• It eats fish

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Alligators
By Cynthia
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Fasts Facts
Alligators have 80 teeth Adult males are
rare if they are larger than 4.5 m
They swallow their food in a flash They rarely
bother humans They are common in Florida and
Louisiana
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food
Young alligators eat insects, crawfish, small
fish, frogs, and much more. Adults eat beavers,
snakes, turtles,deer, shore birds, and much more
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Size
Alligators are about 8 -12 when they are born
They grow about 2-12 per year Females weighs
150 pounds and are 9 Males are 13 and weighs
50 pounds
map
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black pine snake
EGGS
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About the black pine snake

• they live in Alabama- Florida
• adults are 5-7 feet long
• they are protected by the law
• their body is heavy
• their movement is very powerful

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Authors Page
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Bibliography
www.montereybay.com www.nationaltrappers.com.nutri
a.html www.nighthawkpublication.com www.nvo.com ww
w.images.google.com www.tripod.com www.humboldt.co
m www.zooregan.org.carded www.web54.sd54.k12.il.us
/school/einstein/blame/projects3/wlanimal/gregret.
htm