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Current Events: Pea Sized Frog!?

Aleksej Janicijevic

7B

Science 21/9/2010

Current Events

“Pea sized frogs?!”

This article is about new-found specie of amphibians. The new species of amphibians is a frog called 'Microhyla nepenthicola'. The Microhyla nepenthicola would not be such an amazing discovery if not for its size the average size of the frog is 12 millimeters long. The tiny frog was first found on the edge of a paved road, close to the peak of the Gunung Serapi Mountain in Kupah national park. The frog was named after a flower, but not just any flower, it was named after the flower it lives off, which is named 'Nepenthes ampullariais'. When people say this frog is tiny, they aren’t joking around, in fact they aren’t joking around even when they say it’s the size of a pea, adult microhyla nepenthicola don’t grow over 12 milimeters which is around the size of a pea. What made this frog a difficult discovery is the tiny size, imagine searching for a pea?. Dr.Indraneil Das and Alexander have did not set out in search of a pea sized frog; they came across it by accident. The two scientists wanted to find out whether this specie can be found in other countries and continents so they made teams in 5 continents to try locating the frog.

To sum up I think this article has much more meaning than just a new frog, I think this article tells us about how much we still have to find out about and how much information and new things there are in the world waiting to be discovered. Other than that I am also quite fascinated that a frog could get so small. You never know what could go next we might find carrot sized lions?

Video Reflection

I learnt a lot about survival from this video, I learnt the main ways of survival are camouflage, attack, defense, deception and adaptation. Take the turtle for example, it does not deceive, camouflage all it does is defend itself with its shell. Other animals survive my going in groups, so that their chance of success is bigger, but then the food must be shared. Other animals feed of deception, for instance the fox, it pretends to be dead and when birds jump on it to eat it, it grabs one and feeds away. Sometimes survival is hard, vouchers must fly up to 60 miles for 1 meal. In order to attack, animals are taught from a young age, the mother fox teaches its children to fight. Many animals have unique ways of defending themselves, for instance the puffer fish, when it gets attacked it bloats up and poisons its enemy. There are also unique ways of attacking, the snapping turtle deceives its enemy's by sticking its tongue out which looks like a worm then when the prey arrives it just snaps his mouth close and enjoys its food. All in all, from this video i learnt how unique each animal is and how each animal adapts in a different way and develops its own survival technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpTg&feature=related

What i know about living things.

Living things are much more complicated than you might think they are. There are many ways to identify living things. Currently i know a couple things about identifying a living thing. For instance, each living thing must excrete waste. Each living thing must die, and it must change. I would like to find out other qualifications for living things. I would also like to learn about what living things can be other than animals. Hopefully, i will be able to learn about them.

Goals for science class

1. Try different topics for current events, harder topics.
2. Organize notes better. Write notes with more detail
3. Get maximum 1 4, minimum three 5's minimum 1 six, in science criterions, hopefully about 30 points total.
4. When researching a topic, research the internet, ask a parent or a friend and work out of the textbook a bit.
5. Work better on the multimedia part of science.
6. Be creative!