The Animal of the Week is...
Mara - Rodent
Distribution: Central and South Argentina
Habitat: Open Scub and Grassland
Food: Short grasses and Herbs
Size: 50-75cm long with a 4.5cm tail and weighing 8-9kg
Breeding: Females give birth to 1-3 young after a gestation of 90 days. Within a day the pups start grazing and wandering from the burrow, but they stay near it for up to 4 months, with the mother returning to nurse them once or twice a day.
Status: Lower Risk - Near Threatened
If you are allowed a long internet time, try and find out a few things about this fascinating creature!mirPP.S.The MOTF (member of the fortnight) has been selected!
7 comments:
cool...........
saying cool is cool, mscandy but is not relivant at all!
it has nothing to do with the subject. atleast tell me you are going to take interest in it! i chose it so i feel a little sad if someone writes cool and a few fullstops.
mirp:P
Yes MsCandy Pim speands a lot of time working on these so there is no nead to sound board and sarcastic!
but cool does kinda mean "it's cool", er...
yea
mirp:P
I looked up Mara but nothing came up! I'll try again! Bye bye
!*PiGlEt*!
:D
good job looking it up, piglet!
mirp:P
Ohh! I found it! The info is on my animalplanet blog!
:)
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