The Animal Project
Lobster
Crab
If you love crabs or Lobsters. Not to eat. This is you're page!
Crustaceons
The Crab, a decapod crustacean, lives along the coast of Europe as well as beaches in the UK. The crab is a sophisticated creature and has adapted to have an exoskeleton which means they have an out body skeleton as well as being armed with a single pair of chelae- also known as claws. Crabs have many subspecies. We have impacted on their lives as whenever they feel threatened they attack us but this is because we are known predators. Pollution from nearby residents, ships leaking oil and company disposal units have affected the planet and their lives!! This can cause dangerous injuries or certain death affecting their life span of up to 6 years in the wild.
​The lobster is like a crab it is a decapod crustacean but belongs to the Nephropidae family. The lobster is a stream lined creature specifically designed to cut through water in search of prey as well as escaping potential danger. Like crabs lobsters possess claws strong enough to dismantle prey at will. The Lobster has an abnormally long life span of 15 years however, lobsters have been known to exceed over half a century. Ther main way to tell if its a crab or lobster is that a crab has a round body where a lobsters body looks alot more like a giant shrimp with big pincher's and normally a lobster has a longer body, a crab also has a rather rounded head shape.
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The butterfly is a majestic flying insect with various colours and symmetrical patterns and they are a beautiful insect to observe. There are around 15,000 species of butterflies in the world and about 56 species in the UK alone. Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches. he top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. The butterfly has one of the most intriguing life cycles, it starts off as a tiny egg then grows into a caterpillar which is a long worm like body it has a rapidly growing body so it sheds it skin around a average of 4 times. Now the caterpillar turns into a cocoon and is like this normally over winter. The finial stage is when it breaks out of its cocoon and is now a butterfly.
The scorpion, an exoskeleton killer, is an arthropod (an invertabrate with jointed limbs and a segmented body).There are around 2,000 species of scorpions in the world and out of all 2,000 only 40 are deadly enough to kill a human through its poisonous stinger.The main specie to inhabit in the UK is the European Yellow-Tailed Scorpion. This is a smaller scorpion but nevertheless a scorpion, It's maximum hight is about 5 cm. It is coloured brown and its pincers are a shade just lighter than black. The sting is mildly dangerous to humans but is unlikely to be fatal unless the person is very young, very old, inform or particularly susceptible. This scorpion feeds off small insects and other small invertebrates.
Butterfly
Scorpion
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