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= reading log: =

Date/Tittle/minutes
6/2/10 marley and me 30 min. 6/3/10 marley and me 30 min. 6/4/10 marley and me 30 min. 6/5/10 little miss twins 15min. 6/5/10 the fox and the hound 15min. 6/5/10 the lady and the tramp 15min. 6/6/10 parrot research 30min. 6/5/10 winnie the pooh chapter book 30min. 6/7/10 chamilion research 15min. 6/7/10 marley and me 30min. 6/8/10 ostrich research 30min. 6/8/10 marley and me 50min. 6/8/10 marley and me 30min. 6/9/10 marley and me 40min. 6/10/10 lone wolf 40min. 6/11/10 lone wolf 40min. 6/12/10 lone wolf 40min. 6/13/10 lone wolf 40min. 6/14/10 lone wolf 40min. 6/21/10 komodo dragon research 40min. 6/22/10 the book of lies 40min. 6/23/10 the book of lies 20min. 6/24/10 the book of lies 20min. 6/27/10 little miss busy 10min. 6/25/10 the book of lies 20min. 6/26/10 the book of lies 20min. 6/28/10 shiloh 20min. 6/27/10shiloh 20min. 6/26/10 shiloh 20min. 7/2/10 the book of lies 20min. 6/27/10 shiloh 20min. 6/28/10 shiloh 20min. 6/29/10 the book of lies 20min. 7/6/10 shiloh 7/13/10 Ear research 40min.

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= Wonder Questions: =

How can parrots talk?
Parrots talk the same way they chirp or scream. They talk by expelling air across their syrinx, People believe they have an advantage because they are socail with humans. people always think parrots talk but the truth is they don't!!! They just mimic what the human says to them! parrots really whistle and reapeat human words it only sounds like talking!

can other birds mimic human words like a parrot?
yes other birds can mimic what a human says however only very few birds can. Some of the few birds are Budgerigers, crow, eurepian starling and hill myna. These birds are very much like a parrot. some birds can mimic up to 2,000 words! some birds can only mimic sertan words!

how can chamilians change color?
chamilians change colors because they have a bunch of cells under their transparent skin layers. Some of the cells contain pigment the others just reflect light! Chamilians change colors because they want to blend in with the backround. chamilians most often change green brown or gray so they can blend in with the things outside! The lower layers of skin have white or blue skin!

Why don't ostriges fly?
ostriges don't fly because they dont need to! Because their long legs they can run really quickly instead! they also don't fly because there to heavy they would fall! also they don't know how. wings are to small!

how do killer whales communicate?
killer whales use their sounds for communicating and echo location. They whiste, click pop call, grunt, squeak and the clap their jaws. killer whales communicate by moving air threw their nasel sacks and their blow hole reigon. killer whales make sounds in patterns they most likley have calls like their mother. calfs learn to call untill puberty ~age 2-6 months~. killer whales echo locate by click the click last less then a mili second! they usually get the response in the lower jaw and ear.

How do mosquitoes suck blood?
Mosquitoes suck blood by pierecing your skin with a tube like mouth! They inject saliva into your blood to prevent clotting! The saliva gives you a virus that gives you the itchy bump then they just suck untill they are full. Scine only 5% of your body is blood vesel they have to really search around in there! They go threw your tissue 10 seconds at a time! But if they find blood veseld they just freeze and suck untill they are done!!!

How do fireflies light up?
well fireflies have little cells that contain a chemical called lucifurin. That makes an enzme called lucifurase combines with oxagen and makes a chemical called oxylucifuren. lucifuren combines with adinose tripnostate this is found in all cells. This is mixed with oxegen and then light comes out of the enzyme surface. all that preduces 1 tiny light to atract a wife!

Can the bactiria in a comodo dragons spit kill an animal?
Yes it can kill an animal. It can kill an animal with its saliva because there is so much bactiria in their saliva the animal they are trying to kill's body just cant take it! It is so venomus!!!! It can kill the animal within a few days. Then with their great scense of smell they smell out the dead animal! The residue from the last meal creates lots of strong bactiria to help kill animals!

How do people hear?
When sound waves hit your ear your brain turns the sounds into words or music. A human ear drum is a streched membrane it's like the streched fabric on a drum. After a sound hits your eardrum a chain reaction is set off. Then the vibration is passed to the the Hammer bone, the Anvill bone and the and stirrup bone. Then stirrup passes the vibration to coiled tube just like a snake that passes threw the inside part of your ear called the Cochlea. In the cochlea there are thousands nerve ends. When the cochlea vibrates the cilia moves. The ear does all that and tells you what your hearing!2

How do people digest foods?
The digestive system works with hollow organs joined in a mlong twised tube from the mouth to the angus and other organs that break up food. Organs that make up the digestive tract are the mout,esophogus,stomach,small intestine and big intestine also callled the anus and rectum In the organs thyere is a lining called mucusa in the mouth, stomach and and small intestine. The mucusa contains tiny glands that preduce juices that he.lp digest The digest tract also has smooth muscles that helps move food along. The liver and the pancreas preduce digesting juices that reach the intestine by tiny tubes called ducts. The gallbladder saves the livers digestive juices untill they are needed in they intestine. Parts of the nervus and cyrcularity system also play a major part in the digestive system.