Green sea turtles are reptiles. They evolved from ancestors who walked on land and then went back to the sea many million years ago. Turtles are part of a species that are so ancient in standing that they themselves watched dinosaurs become extinct. Green Sea Turtles are cold blooded, and breathe air. They possess scaly
Grizzly bears are a very powerful animal that are native to North America, which grows to a height of nearly 8 feet when standing upright, and can weigh upwards of 1500 pounds. Male grizzly bears, called boars, will weigh an average of twice as much as a female, Grizzly bears are colored quite eclecticly, with
The Olive Ridley Turtle is among the lesser endangered of those which are in jeopardy, yet it is still endangered to a great degree. The Olive Ridley Turtle is a small turtle which mates only once per year and when it does makes it’s nesting areas on only five areas world wide. Among them are
Levi the MonkeyBarbossa and his pirates kidnap Elizabeth, they take her in a longboat to the treasure cave. One trainer hid in the boat along with the monkey and the actors and safety divers waited in the water. The aerial shot and the wide shot of this sequence was filmed with stunt people and a
Frasier the weekly sitcom about Frasier Crane, his father and brother Nile, who unwittingly get into all sorts of scrapes although they are both psychiatrists. Eddie, the friendly pooch of Frasiers dad, was played by Moose, a Jack Russel Terrior, who played opposite of Kelsey Grammar as Frasier. Moose was born on Christmas Eve in
Great OutdoorsThe Great Outdoors: Starring Dan Akroyd and John Candy.Was a comedy about two families who spent time together in the outdoors being harassed most of the time by a huge bear that they had angered, and he refused to leave them in peace, chasing them through much of the picture. The Bear was portrayed
Was a show that played in the 1960’s about a horse, who could speak to his human owner. Mr Ed was a very popular television show for children and adults alike. Mr Ed was about the adventures, or misadventures of Wilbur Post, an architect who was played by Alan Young. Mr Ed Mr Ed got
Grizzly Adams was a show that audiences fell in love with about a lone man who moved to the mountains to escape a crime he hasn’t committed, met a grizzly and remained in the mountains to live. Americans who watched the show fell in love with Grizzly Adams, and they also fell in love with
When fishermen separate a young orca named Willy from his parents, he ends up in an aquarium at a marina in the Seattle area. Meanwhile, a street kid named Jesse (Jason James Richter) gets caught vandalizing the marina, but his social worker, Dwight (Mykelti Williamson), helps him avoid legal consequences, provided he cleans up his
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a popular Australian television series for children produced from 1966 to 1968. Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production. Although at the time of first screening Australian television was still in black and white (colour TV broadcasting did not begin until 1975), the show was shot
Lassie, a female Rough Collie, is ‘the world’s most famous dog’ and a fictional character who has starred in (or, more properly, in variations been the subject of) many radio shows, movies, TV shows, and books from 1938 through 2006. The character of Lassie was created by British-American author Eric Knight in Lassie Come-Home, published
Whites Tree Frog is a largish frog which is about 3 to 4 inches long, with the females being larger than the males. The color ranges from light blue to deep forest green, or sometimes almost gray. The males have a vocal sac that is under the throat, and the female’s throat is white. Whites
The Tree Frog or the Peeper Frog is said to forecast rain, because he likes the humid weather, and after mating season he will sing on rainy nights, or very warm humid ones. It is very seldom seen, but is always heard singing from trees or scrub, while feeding on insects. They winter in hollow
Living deep within the tropical rain forests of Central and South America, there exists a family of over 165 different types of Dendrobatid frogs (arrow-poison frogs). These frogs secrete a poisonous cocktail of potent lipophilic alkaloids from the granular glands located on their back, which form some of the deadliest natural toxins known. In this
There is an insect in New Zealand that grows nowhere else in the world It is a sort of grasshopper type of insect that is unique to this area, and found no other place on earth. The natives there have always called it the Weta, which means, in their native Maori, “The god of bad
