Year 5 Animal life cycles

Year 5 – Animal life cycles

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.

Alex’s Tapir Life cycle

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.

How long do
tapirs live for?
Tapirs live for 25-30 years

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

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.

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

• Females take three years,
males take 4-5 years
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How long does it take to
become an adult?

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

Felix’s Pink Dolphin Lifecycle

Harry’s Mountain Gorilla Life cycle

Hollie’s Rabbit Life cycle

The Lifecycle Of A
Rabbit/Bunny

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!

How much babies Can
female rabbits have?
Each Litter contains between 1 & 12 babies,
with 5 as an average amount.

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.

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.

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.

Krish’s Panda Life cycle

Pandas life
cycle

LIFE CYCLE OF A PANDA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Logan’s Blue Whale Life cycle

BLUE WALE

THE BLUE WHALE IS A PLACENTAL
MAMMAL

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.

2021