jacobs(2)journal

=**__FREE JOU RNAL __**= At my eco place there are a lot of plants, but not that much animal life that I can spot. There is a lot of tall tree's, that's about 100 feet high. The trees were just tall, and not wide. There were mostly the leaves at the top. There is also a lot of moss that grows on the rocks that’s close to the water. Most of the moss grows on the rocks that were close to the waterfall. On a path way that's about 20 yards long. The path way was muddy and it was flooded with water. It has tall bamboo trees that are on both sides of the pathway. The bamboo trees were all mostly green and it was wide. The rest of the bamboo trees were either brown or a tan color. The bamboo were grown right next to each other to where it looked like a bamboo wall. This week the pond was a lot cleaner instead of the other week but for this visit instead of us staying at the pond that looks like a big pool, we followed the river going up. On our way up, there was more animal life and that’s when we walked through the bamboo pathway. The weather was very muggy which made us sweat. We walked for about a whole hour then we seen a big family of mongoose. There were two adults in the front of six-baby mongoose. We tried to follow it to observe it but it was to fast for us. There was also ducks in the river. There was a lot of ducks with the green heads. The ducks lived in the pond where the water was calm. A lot of the ducks had mates and babies. Then we heard the birds again but we couldn’t see it. The only bird that we seen were couple pigeons that came down into the river then flew right back up. The birds that flew down was a regular sized pigeon, and it was grey. There were still a lot of red ants. It seemed that the ants over populated our eco place because everywhere that we stepped there were red ants. It wasn’t the regular sized red ants. It was a little bit bigger then regular ants. =**__ASSIGNED JOU RNAL __** = Two symbiosis species that interact with each other is the crayfish and the little fish that both live in the part of the pond that looks like a huge pool. This relationship to me would be mutualism because the two species do not interact or attack each other. The Cray fish live at the bottom where it is dark and you can barley see and the fish live at the top where the water is clear. On this visit when I was observing the fish it seems like they kill themselves in order to survive. I think that they kill themselves because in the pond there isn’t any other species except for the crayfish, but they cannot kill the crayfish. The fish kill each other in order to get energy to survive each day. I think that the crayfish eat the remaining of the dead fish from the top because that the only thing that they can eat from the pond beside themselves. One predator prey relation ship is the fish and the ducks that live upstream. The ducks are the predators and the fish are the prey. The ducks dive underwater and feed on the fish. The ducks takes a plunge into to the water brings out a good-sized fish and feeds the rest of his or her family. Sometimes when I was watching the ducks it came up with nothing. One type of ducks had a brown body, tannish feet, and a green head. The other type of ducks a brown body, a real light tan color feet, and a brownish head with black polka dots. The fish that they would pull out of the water was about three inches long. The fishes were the brownish grayish type of fish. A lot of the ducks stuck together. The only way that they would separate is if on of the baby ducks would go downstream until the parent came down to lead um back up to the rest. =THE DUCKS STICKING TOGETHER= interaction between two species to me is humans and the red ants. The reason why I think it’s an interaction is because since there are so many ants we step on a lot of them and get them killed. Everywhere that we walked when we looked down we stepped on some of them and we had to keep shaking them off of our feet. Sometimes in the water we could spot some ants in there floating.