weekly animal spotlight 5: Chinese ring-necked pheasant

Hi guys! this is my very first bird spotlight!

     the Chinese ring-neck pheasant is in the Galliforme (game bird) family.  They live throughout Asia and their scientific name is Phasianus cholchicus. they have a call that sounds a lot like a chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) call.  there are a wide veriety of forms of male pheasant color.  They have 30 subspecies and some of them are domesticated.  As with many other species of game bird, they are very commonly hunted.  Some of their predators are humans (Homo sapiens), grey foxes (Urycyon cenereoargenteus), and coyotes (Canis latrans).

weekly animal spotlight 4: moose

hi guys!  I'm back with another weekly animal spotlight!

     The moose, is an amazing and beautiful animal from North America and Europe.  they eat most land and aquatic plants, and its scientific name is Alces alces.  They mainly live in decideous and boreal forests. their main predators are grey wolfs (Canis lupus), brown bears (ursus arctos), and humans (Homo sapiens).  Once, some were introduced into New Zealand, and (possibly) went extinct.