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By Laura Ciuca  March 5, 2019 This picture was received from Max Pixel .  The Sumatran tiger is an amazing animal and it deserves to live on. The Sumatran tiger is critically endangered. There are only about four-hundred in the wild right now! This tiger is well known because of of their big black stripes on their orange fur. They are also the smallest tiger subspecies. This tiger subspecies is about 165-308 pounds (74.8427-139.706 kilograms). The Sumatran tiger lives in tropical broadleaf evergreen forests, freshwater swamp forests and and peat swamps. The Sumatran tiger lives on the island of Sumatra which is in Indonesia.  The first reason why the Sumatran tiger is critically endangered is because of poaching. Because of all this poaching this amazing animal could go extinct, fifty a year. According to the New York Times , the Sumatran tiger is going extinct because of poaching. “Only about 500 to 600 Sumatran tigers still live in the wild, and p...

By George Haraguchi These are Fire Ants. Fire ants are from South America and have a painful bite.  Have you ever wondered what species of ant you are looking at? Well, you might have seen the ants wandering on the sidewalk or in the grass, but you don’t really look up close at the traits that define them. Sometimes it’s what they look like that defines them or what they do. This is a leafcutter ant. Leafcutter ants are know for cutting up leaves and using it for farming the food they produce for their colony. People usually think there is only one species of ant, and that is usually black ants. The reason that people mostly see black ants is because they aren’t looking close enough. Most ants are dark colors and if you don’t look close enough they all look the same. Black. Most people think ants are just annoying, but others love ants because of their fascination. Asian Marauder Ants eating a superworm. Asian Marauder Ants scientific name is Pheidologeton diversus...

By Amelia Volker and Frida Rios Did you know that puffins mate for life? Unfortunately these adorable penguin looking animals are in a crisis. Puffins have been endangered for more than eight years, since 2010. The New York Times says, “though some puffin colonies are prospering in Iceland, where the largest population of Atlantic puffins is found, their numbers have dropped from roughly seven million individuals to about 5.4 million since 2015.”If the population dropped so much in so little time will we even have puffins in the future? For those of you who don’t know what a puffin is, puffins are animals that are mostly common birds that live in Iceland. It seems that people have been recently hunting puffins. They are so cute. They are really loveable birds. It’s sad that people are hunting them. This picture was taken from Independent . The puffin population has dropped and is still dropping today. Scientists and researchers say that the population is in danger.”A scientist from S...