Forestuhbeest

//ZIJING CHU 10B//

EXTINCT ANIMAL {HIPPOTRAGUS LEUCOPHAEUS} / MODERN ANIMAL {WILDEBEEST} / FUTURE ANIMAL {FORESTUHBEEST}

=**FORESTUHBEEST** =

=**INTRO** = = = This is a future animal similar to the Wildebeest, having the same Scientific Classification, but has evolved greatly due to its change of environment. This animal looks very much like the wildebeest with a pair of mane on its forehead, fore legs and a long nose and mouth, but a smaller tail and eyes. = = = = =**GENERAL INFORMATION** = ===** Scientific classification ** ===
 * ==** LABELED PICTURE OF FORESTUHBEEST ** == ||
 * [[image:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264437_141537462587638_100001941560811_303604_5201896_n.jpg width="719" height="338"]] ||


 * ==Kingdom: == || ==[|Animalia] == ||
 * ==Phylum: == || ==[|Chordata] == ||
 * ==Subphylum: == || ==[|Vertebrata] == ||
 * ==Class: == || ==[|Mammalia] == ||
 * ==Order: == || ==<span style="color: #0645ad; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Artiodactyla] == ||
 * ==<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Family: == || ==<span style="color: #0645ad; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Bovidae] == ||
 * ==<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Subfamily: == || ==<span style="color: #0645ad; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">[|Alcelaphinae] == ||
 * ==<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Genus: == || ==<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">// Connochaetes // ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [|Lichtenstein], 1812
|| = = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 4pt;">[] = || = =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The movement of continents in 150 Million Years. (Figure 1) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[[image:http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/earth_today_and_150_million_years_from_n_1.jpg align="right" caption="Photo"]]

=<span style="color: #803100; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">HABITAT =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] || =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">New lands are formed along the eastern coasts of South America and North America will start to consume the ocean plates and separates North America from Africa. It is estimated in 150 million years from this present-day; the Pacific Ocean’s Ridge would increase in large scales causing the continents to move closer together causing the Indo-Atlantic Ocean to decrease in size and causing it to shrink. Due to the movement of tectonic plates and the continents moving closer together, the climate and all the creatures on earth start to migrate further up or down suiting their own needs. As the continents slowly moves together “again” Eurasia and Africa merges forming the third biggest continent ever to be on earth after Gondwana and Laurasia. This third biggest landmass would sit on the equator having a bit of Africa sticking out the bottom (as seen in figure 2). =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Figure 2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Now, and where Africa sits in the MIDDLE of the equator || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">150 Million Years later, Africa sits on top of the equator ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[[image:http://www.scotese.com/images/000.jpg width="431" height="274" caption="000.jpg (134520 bytes)"]]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Animals such as tigers, cheaters and elephants are all going to be extinct, gone from the face of the earth, due to the change of the Africa’s change of place. It’s going to be too cold for these animals to be living on continent so most animals either went extinct or migrated up to the desert area. As to the Forestuhbeest still lives the bottom part of Africa, its range expanded since the forest area of Africa has expanded and has moved south (as shown in figure 3 the circled red area). Forestuhbeest dwells around in the forest and nowhere else. It has a life expectancy of 80 years (close to humans); more over it has the same habits as the Wildebeest we see now. The calves of the Forestuhbeest can learn to be on their feet in a few minutes and the breeding periods of this animal is inconsistent, allowing the animal to decide itself when they would want to breed. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ­­­­Earth seen 150 million years from now (Figure 3) Red area is where Forestuhbeest’s habitat <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] = = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">The Forestuhbeest is an omnivore. It has developed the diet of eating both meat and vegetation due to the lack of nutrition in plants by the changing of climate, and due to protection for themselves. = = = =<span style="color: #803100; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ADAPTATION = =**__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Structural Adaptation no.1 __**= = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">As the name of this future animal has suggested, that it is an animal that habitats around the forest. Due to its largeness in size and its living around the forest it is really easy to be spotted out and may be attacked by other animals and so their skin has developed a camouflage fur color enabling them to merge into the forest background. = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This adaptation has really helped the development of this animal and its survival in the future. It has helped by creating a safer zone enabling this animal to breed and eat safely without being killed or eaten. = = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">One obvious physical change that has been developed through the decades and really differs from the Wildebeest is the size. Through the years of evolution the size of animals has greatly increased due to the climate change and the animals eating habits. When human has all left earth onto other planets, the supplies of food has increased and has lots more supplies for animals and so the animals are all huge in size in the future. Its size has increased ten times more than the wildebeest we can see now. It can grow up to 45ft (14m) refer to figure 4. = = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This physical adaptation can have advantages and disadvantages, advantages would be that it improves its hunting for food and easier for it to eat in from higher trees. It can scare and even eat most of the animals that are suitable for their diet, but the disadvantage of this adaptation is when bigger animals they are quite defenseless. And they are not able to run as the wildebeest can now.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Structural Adaptation no.2 __**

__**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Behavioral Adaptation no.1 **__ = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">As identified in the section above about the habitat of the Forestuhbeest breeds inconsistently, and is chosen by it. This behavioral adaptation is slightly leaned more to a negative content, and is not an efficient evolution that has been taken. In the page on Wildebeest it is stated that he Wildebeest does not have a specific time of when they would normally breed and so as the Wildebeest evolved and turned into Forestuhbeest they started to have a habit of choosing when to breed and weather they breed or not. = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This behavioral change from a non-consistent breeding habit to a habit of just breeding when they want to, this act might be similar to the breeding of human kind. And the reason that causes this to happen can be said that it hugely relates to its less needs of protection and breeding habits would not be that frequent because there is less demands for a larger population. = = __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Behavioral Adaptation no.2 **__ = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">A distinct behavior that the Forestuhbeest carries is the sleeping habit that is has, unlike other antelope types that are seen now. It sleeps standing up and only sleeps for 5 hours a day. This habit has developed through the process of evolution due to the alertness of being killed by other animals and their needs for food. After the 5 hours of sleeping each day the Forestuhbeest would eat and eat until they are full and then after digestion they will keep on eating until it is time for them to sleep again. = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This behavioral Adaptation that has developed is really efficient and really suites the time and place that they live in. As people may know that forests are usually trees growing really close together and has lots of root and other stuff creating a bumpy forest floor, and so if the Forestuhbeest does not sleep standing up, it would be a difficult task to find a spot to sleep comfortably. = = = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This adaptation has developed through years and years and through evolution. As stated in the page of Wildebeest, it is known that the wildebeest lives in herd and lives with cows and zebras. But as indicated in the introduction of this page, most animals have already been extinct from the changing of climate etc. And due to the growth of the Wildebeest into Forestuhbeest the herds of this animal has split into smaller and smaller groups. And in the future the Forestuhbeest is an individual living animal. = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This change has occurred because the Forestuhbeest has the ability to be independent due to the decrease of predators, and living as an individual would be a more efficient way. It is also an advantage because when there are predators and if the predator actually kill this animal it is just one that they are killing, if they had still lived in herds predators could kill a few at once. So this is a much more efficient way of living in the future.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Behavioral Adaptation no.3 __**

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