Year 5 Animal life cycles

Year 5 – Animal life cycles

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Year 5 have been studying about animal life cycles and

created their own presentations to describe the life cycles

of mammals. They needed to think about the lifespan of

the animal as well as how many offspring they had and

how they were looked after. The children could present

their information using a format of their own choice and it is

fantastic to see how creative they have been.

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Alex’s Tapir Life cycle

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The lifecycle of a tapir

A tapir is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to

a pig, with a short, prehensile nose trunk.

Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of South and

Central America, and Southeast Asia.

There are four species of tapir.

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How long do

tapirs live for?

Tapirs live for 25-30 years

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How many offspring

do they have?

They have 1 at a time

They have them every 2 years

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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How and where do

tapirs have

offspring?

• Tapirs are placental mammals, so

they give birth to live young.

• Because they don’t have many

natural predators they don’t need a

special place to protect their

young.

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Do the parents

look after their

young?

The mother does but the dad

doesn’t

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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• Females take three years,

males take 4-5 years

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How long does it take to

become an adult?

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Does it change appearance

as it grows?

• After half a year the baby starts to

lose the baby-colouring of its fur.

• When the young tapir is one year

old it looks like an adult tapir, and

it leaves its mother.

• Tapirs become mature when they

are 4 years old.

• Tapirs can become 25–30

years old

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Felix’s Pink Dolphin Lifecycle

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Harry’s Mountain Gorilla Life cycle

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Hollie’s Rabbit Life cycle

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The Lifecycle Of A

Rabbit/Bunny

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How long is a rabbit's lifecycle?

• The Rabbit's Lifecycle is 8-2 years long if you

keep them as a pet but a wild one is 1-2

years. They stay a Newborn for up to 3 months and

then become an adolescence for 3-6 months then a

teenager for 6-12 months and finishes of being an

adult for up to 12 months-5 years!

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How much babies Can

female rabbits have?

Each Litter contains between 1 & 12 babies,

with 5 as an average amount.

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How and where do

rabbits have their

offspring?

They make a giant hole with grass and fur to

place their bunnies, so they are warm

because they are born with no fur as shown

on the second slide picture. They have their

babies just like humans do because it comes

out as a live animals because they are a

placental mammal.

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Do the Bunnies’

parents look

after them?

They do look after them in some ways. They

do clean their babies as cats do but they

don't lay down with them. They just stand

outside of the hole nursing them.

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Do they change their

appearance as they

grow up

Yes. Their fur can change colour and their

size gets bigger because they're growing up.

Their fur can grow and shade as they get

older like humans getting grey hair because

their fur/hair colour fades.

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Krish’s Panda Life cycle

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Pandas life

cycle

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LIFE CYCLE OF A PANDA

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HOW MANY BABIES CAN

PANDA'S HAVE EACH

TIME?

Female Pandas make

babies from 90-180 days

after mating.

If female Pandas have

2 babies most of the time

only 1 ends up living.

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HOW AND WHERE

DOES A PANDA HAVE

BABIES?

Pandas usually give birth to 1

baby.

Twins are often born when in

captivity when you use

artificial insemination.

Baby pandas are usually born

in the late summer in hollow

hidden trees or could be in

natural dens where they uses

branches and grass for building a

nest.

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DO PANDAS

LOOK AFTER

THEIR

YOUNG?

For the first 3 months they

always care for the baby

panda.

80% of the mother's time

goes towards looking after

the baby in this time.

Pandas leave their mother

when she is pregnant

which is for about 18

months.

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HOW LONG DOES IT

TAKE FOR A PANDA TO

BECOME AN ADULT?

It takes 4 years for a

panda to become an

adult.

They stay with their

parents for 1 and a ½ to 2

years.

They weigh up to 150 kg

when they are an adult.

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DOES A PANDA CHANGE ITS

APPEARANCE AS IT GROWS?

When it is first born it is pink and has less hair.

After it has been 25 days after being born, it will have black and

white look.

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Logan’s Blue Whale Life cycle

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BLUE WALE

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THE BLUE WHALE IS A PLACENTAL

MAMMAL

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At 80 –90 yeas old the blue

whale finally passes away.

The babby is in the womb.

A year later the umbilical cord breaks and the

respiratory, circulatory and waste disposal systems start to

work.

For the next 6 months the

whale feeds on 225 litres

of its mum's fatty milk.

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2021