Animal+Research+and+Poetry

Research an animal that you are interested in. Think about questions like: What is its habitat? What does it eat? Does it have any predators? Does it give birth or lay eggs or something else? What kind of house/den does it have? What does it look like? Are there different types of this animal?  Present your information in any way you like.  Learn one of these poems to recite in front of the class: **The Firefly** by Ogden Nash  The firefly's flame Is something for which science has no name <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">I can think of nothing eerier <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Than flying around with an unidentified glow on a <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">person's posteerier.

by Ogden Nash <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The ant has made himself illustrious <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Through constant industry industrious. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">So what? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Would you be calm and placid <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">If you were full of formic acid?
 * The Ant**

by Ogden Nash <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Whales have calves, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Cats have kittens, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Bears have cubs, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Bats have bittens, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Swans have cygnets, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Seals have puppies, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">But guppies just have little guppies.
 * The Guppy**

by Ogden Nash <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Could catch no glimpse <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Not even a glimp. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">At times, translucence <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Is rather a nuisance.
 * The Shrimp**