LI Challenge Lesson 1a1

Before I started my assignment I spent some time getting to know the features in World Book Kids. I played a few games, looked at some of the activities and science experiments. Later I had my daughter play some of the games with me and she seemed very interested. Little does she know that I will be using this over the summer to keep her skills up. Mwahahahaha. I also intend to encourage kids at the library to use this as an alternate to the hours of uneducational games they play at the library.

Back to the assignment. I didn't really have a particular animal in mind so after narrowing my search to animals and then mammals, I clicked on an abritrary page and was lead to the n sewction, where I was acqainted with the naked mole rat. A fond memory came to mind as I recalled watching Kim Possible with my daughter and being enamored by the pink bundle of cuteness named Rufus.

Disney did a good job of smoothing out the rough spots because to my dismay, the real version of a naked mole rat was a far cry from the cute, energetic, coolness of Ron's side kick.

Is it the black beady, squintish eyes? The long, over protruding buck teeth? Or just the pink wrinkled, hairless skin that gave me cause to withdraw from the computer monitor. Anyway, when I got passed the initial shock I found out that naked mole rats live underground feeding on the underground parts of plants. They live in colonies of about 80 and only 1 female and 1-3 males breed for the whole colony.

Although he wouldn't make a good pet, his picture did kind of grow on me. Is that a smile I see behind those teeth?

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