Carnivores

"The jaws of many carnivores move up and down.  This helps them tear and bite meat."

Carnivores
By: Heather C. Hudak
Copyright 2005
Weigl Publishing Inc.
Non Fiction (Informational)
Older Elementary School Age
24 Pages

Carnivores are those animals that eat meat.  Most of them hunt and kill their own pray.  Each is built in a way that makes it easy and helpful for hunting.  They have jaws for killing and chewing and the digestive system to help them digest meat.  They have very keen senese that help them locate their pray and to hunt.  Every animal is different, some have hightented hearing, smell, or sight.  All help them hunt their pray.  They can be found anywhere, land or water, there are carnivores all over the world.  A few exsamples of them are: Cheetah, swift fox, blue whale, least weasel, and the peregrine falcon.  Even just looking at those you can tell that they are all of different shapes and sizes and build differently.  There are many carnivors that are hunted and are endangered and close to extintion.  The biggest issue with this is humans, hunting and/or destroying habitats of animals.  The food chain cannot keep going if these animals are dying, it effects all the animals.

I would recomend this book to students who are interested in different kind of animals.  Also to a teacher to teach about different kind of carnivors and teach students that they are all different. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed learning about this books.  Most of the time you forget that there are some animals that are carnivores that you probly wouldn't think are.  So it was a good reminder to me.