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A3 The Heritage Voice Informational & Comics Featuring Heritage Intermediate School 4th & 5th Grade Writers Eastern Box Turtles By: Savannah Kliewer Diet Do you know what eastern box turtles eat? Eastern box turtles eat slugs, carrion, insects, berries, and fruits. Eastern box turtles can eat so many things. Some turtles can eat things you don’t know. Eastern box turtles can get food in many ways. Description Eastern box turtles have a blackish brownish shell. They also have yellow stripes on their shell. Did you know that male turtles have red eyes? Did you also know that females have a shorter tail than males? Some turtles have a hard shell like a brick! Habitat Eastern box turtles like to stay in dry spots. Turtles don’t like heat because there shell will get dry. Turtles were found in Ohio by one crossing the road. They were in the woodlands and they like to be by leaves. Turtles live in a lot of places. You might know some. Life span Eastern box turtles can live to 60 years. Some turtles may live to 100 years! Turtles can live for so long. Some of turtles predators are dogs, crows, and ants. It can be very dangerous for baby turtles. A lot of turtles can get targeted from other animals because there predators are sometimes picky. Extra Facts To save turtles you can go the speed limit. You can also save them by not cutting down where they live. You can also help them with looking before you mow and you can help them with not throwing trash on the ground. You can help Eastern Box Turtles and other animals in so many ways. I hope that you will try to help save wild animals. If you help wild animals, you are helping the world. You can do things for the wildlife. You will be good person to the wildlife. Even if you can’t do it and you want to you will still be good. I hope you can try to help wildlife. The Amazing Striped Skunk By: Lily Gonzalez Have you ever wondered about the striped skunk? If so, this is the article for you. In this article you learn about the life span, diet, predators, habitats, description, and interesting facts about the skunk. I hope you will enjoy this amazing article. Enjoy! Description The striped skunk has many characteristics. They have a white back with a black stripe down the middle. It has a small black head with a and the bushy long tail is often black and white intermixed. The striped skunk has long claws that are great for digging. The striped skunk can grow to be as big as a house cat. They come in many colors, brown, white, cream, black, and occasionally albino. Skunks have an awesome reputation. Lifespan/Predators A striped skunk has a lot of predators and lives longer in captivity than in the wild. Their lifespan in the wild is 3 years. In captivity is 15 years. One of the striped skunks predators is people. They also have cars, redfox, cougars, coyotes, great horned owl, and red tail hawk to worry about. Skunks are tough that's how they survive. Diet The striped skunk eats just about anything. They eat stuff like worms, insects, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and plants. They also eat meats like snakes, frogs, lizards, mice, birds, small mammals, and even eggs. I wonder if they like their eggs scrambled, hard boiled, or raw? HABITAT The striped skunk has many different habitats. You can find them in the wild, in dens, open fields, hillsides, and sometimes under logs. You may find them in a city as big as Chicago. In places like under buildings Where ever you live your most likely to see a skunk or smell one. Interesting facts Here are some interesting facts about the striped skunk that I think you should know. There scientific name is mephitis mephitis. The female skunk can have 2-10 young ones in a litter. They are born blind and with pink skin. The skunks spray is a smelly, oily liquid. They are mammals. So interesting! Now that you know all about the striped skunk you won’t say ………. EWWWW When you see a skunk. The Northern Pike By: Owen Stuckey Do you wonder where the northern pike lives eats and how long it lives? Well, here is your answer. But first I have a question for you. Why do northern pike not go to school? give up?. They are so sick! (cool:) The description The northern pike has many interesting characteristics. One is that it grows to be one foot long. It can weight up to 12 pounds. It also has a duck bill like snout. And its eyes are slightly backwards. I found all of this info at animals. Dnr. The habitat The things a northern pike needs to live can be found in the following areas. They live in wetlands, or they live in natural lakes and slow moving streams. They must have under brush and vegetation. I found all of this info at animals Dnr. The life span The northern pike can live longer than most fish. They can live up to 12 years out in the wild. In captivity they can live to 6 to 10 years. They have only one predator… us! I got all of this info at animals dnr. The diet The northern pike eats many things. One they eat small fish and toads. Also, they eat crayfish and muskrats. They also enjoy a frequent small duck. I got all of this info at animals dnr. Interesting facts There are many interesting facts about the northern pike. One there nickname is hammer handle. Watch out guys… The females are bigger than the males! Also they are very HOSTILE. I found all of this info at Ohio dnr. To wrap up, when you are swimming in the northern hemisphere look down and see what is below! A Red Fox’s Life By: Jessica Dill Here are five different paragraph about the red fox. So I hope you enjoy it and thank you for reading it. DESCRIPTION The Red fox is a very colorful animal. The fur is made up of two different colors red and yellow. Sometimes, ears and lower legs are black. They have a very soft, fury tail dipped in white. So, as you can tell Red foxes can really stand out in a crowed. LIFE SPAN The Red fox lives a long hard life. There are two different amounts of time they can live in wild 2-4 years, in captivity 10-12 years. The baby foxes die from crool dogs and badger’s. Adults can die from humans, coyotes, and wolves. As you can see red foxes don’t live as easy as us. Diet Red foxes have a huge appetite for lots of things. Here are five things red foxes eat. One: mice, two: cottontail rabbits, three: song birds four: berries, five: fruit. Wow that is a lot so here's two more carrion or scavenged meat. So, you can tell some people eat some of those things to we are kind of alike in food. Habitat Red foxes live in tons of different places such as. forests, ohio, North America, sea cliffs, sand dunes, and salt marshes. So we would not really see them in everyday life. In fact they probably live in more places then just that. So they live in six different places that I know of. North America one of the places red foxes live INTERESTING FACTS Known for the interesting facts I only have three of them but here we go. One: Red foxes don’t hibernate. Two: Red foxes can hear really well. Three: they can make different vocal sounds 12 to be exact. Red foxes can be a very interesting animal at times. Have you ever seen a red fox in real life? I have not well anyway thank you for reading this article. Comics & Secret Codes Rainbow Trout By: Juan Chiquito Characteristics The Rainbow Trout have many characteristics. They are torpedo shaped and generally blue green in color with a pink stripe along their sides, white underbelly, and small black spot on their back and fins. They are members of the salmon family. They average about 20 to 30 inches long and 8 pounds but grow as long as 4 feet and weight up to 53 pounds. Have you ever gone fishing and caught a Rainbow Trout? Lifespan The Rainbow Trout’s life is not a long one. The Rainbow Trout’s lifespan is four to six years in the wild. One of the most notable diseases affecting rainbow trout is whirling disease, a parasitic ailment. Predators There are many predators to the rainbow trout. In the great lakes sea lampreys are the most common predators of Rainbow Trout. Also larger trout blue herons mergader, kingfishers and mammals including mick raccoons river otters grizzly bears/ American black bears humans. Diet Rainbow Trout do not eat very many things. Rainbow Trout survive on insects, crustaceans, small fish, fish eggs, mollusks, insects, even mice. They usually eat in the morning or at dusk. Habitat The Rainbow Trout cannot be found just anywhere in the world. The Rainbow Trout is native only to the rivers and lakes of North America west of the Rocky Mountains but have been introduced into other lakes and rivers in other parts of the country. They prefer clean rivers streams and lakes though some will leave their freshwater homes and follow a river out to the sea. Interesting facts Rainbow Trout are interesting! A group of Rainbow Trouts are called a hover. Trout species use both chemical cues and detection of the earth magnetic fields to navigate to and from natal streams and on ocean journeys. They use aquatic vegetation, boulders, sand, and wood as protective cover. Thank you for hearing about the Rainbow Trout! Rainbow Trout By: Juan Chiquito Characteristics The Rainbow Trout have many characteristics. They are torpedo shaped and generally blue green in color with a pink stripe along their sides, white underbelly, and small black spot on their back and fins. They are members of the salmon family. They average about 20 to 30 inches long and 8 pounds but grow as long as 4 feet and weight up to 53 pounds. Have you ever gone fishing and caught a Rainbow Trout? Lifespan The Rainbow Trout’s life is not a long one. The Rainbow Trout’s lifespan is four to six years in the wild. One of the most notable diseases affecting rainbow trout is whirling disease, a parasitic ailment. Predators There are many predators to the rainbow trout. In the great lakes sea lampreys are the most common predators of Rainbow Trout. Also larger trout blue herons mergader, kingfishers and mammals including mick raccoons river otters grizzly bears/ American black bears humans. Diet Rainbow Trout do not eat very many things. Rainbow Trout survive on insects, crustaceans, small fish, fish eggs, mollusks, insects, even mice. They usually eat in the morning or at dusk. Habitat The Rainbow Trout cannot be found just anywhere in the world. The Rainbow Trout is native only to the rivers and lakes of North America west of the Rocky Mountains but have been introduced into other lakes and rivers in other parts of the country. They prefer clean rivers streams and lakes though some will leave their freshwater homes and follow a river out to the sea. Interesting facts Rainbow Trout are interesting! A group of Rainbow Trouts are called a hover. Trout species use both chemical cues and detection of the earth magnetic fields to navigate to and from natal streams and on ocean journeys. They use aquatic vegetation, boulders, sand, and wood as protective cover. May 2019

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