Did you know!...

Hi everyone here are some interesting facts about Aboriginal Culture

Aboriginals are the first know human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands

Traditional Aboriginal music is played on the Didgeridoo

Music and dance is a very important part of Aboriginal customs, there is a song and dance for every occasion, including songs for hunting, ancestors, landscapes, animals, seasons, myths, and dreamtime legends.

Aboriginals believe that they don't own this land the land owns them

The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of it's creation and its stories and the beginning of knowledge

Boomerangs are used as weapons especially for hunting and fighting

Uluru, or Ayers Rock is a Sacred Aboriginal Site for the Aboriginal people of Anangu, there is a sacred traditional Dreamtime track that runs around it



Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Ocelot

Hi Everyone,

It's been a few weeks since I last wrote you! We have been on school holidays and went camping, where we got very wet!! it rained alot but we had a great time, and the best bit was that we went to Byron Bay light house and saw so many beautiful whales on their way up the coast to have babies and even a pod of about 20 Dolphins which was awsome, the Whales were breaching heaps and we could see them really clearly with our binnoculars! Dad and Nat went to watch the Titans play one night and we had a really bad storm!! Mum and I stayed in the tent watching Harry Potter!!! My mum also turned 40 last week too! Do you think she will thank me for saying that?!!! so we have been really busy with Birthday celebrations and having fun!!


As you can see my title is the Ocelot!! I have just finished my holiday project on this beautiful animal, I had to write it in French!!!! so thought I would share some information about them with you, in English of course!!!!


...Did you know the Ocelot is also known as the Painted Leopard, McKenney's Wildcat or Manigordo (in Costa Rica), it is a wild cat and is found in South and Central America and Mexico, and has even been seen as far north as Texas in the USA and in Trinidad in the Caribbean!

The Ocelot's appearance is similar to that of the domestic cat. Its fur looks like a leopard or Jaguar and was once regarded as valuable, as a result hundreds of thousands of Ocelots have been killed for their fur! which you can imagine I was not very happy about!! Thankfully they are no longer hunted for their fur and although the Ocelot was classified a "vulnerable" endagered speicies from the 1980s until 1996, it is thankfully now generally considered "least concern" by the 2006 endagered speicies list.

The Ocelot can be up to 1 m (3'2") in length, plus 45 cm (1'6") tail length, and weighs 10–15 kg (about 20–33 pounds). It has a tawny to reddish brown coat marked with black spots and rosettes and it's fur is short and lighter on it's tummy, they also have a single white spot on the back of each of thier ears and two black lines on either side of thier face with a black-banded tail.

I love these wild cats and hope you love the picture of the one above!!! I'll let you know what mark I get for my project!!!


Do you have a favourite wild or endangerd animal that you love if you have send me an email telling us all about it and I will post it up onto the blog!

Don't forget WORLD TREE DAY!! See my post below for more information!!!


See you all soon

Love KatiebXXX

kate@weareamazing.com.au
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