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The Long-Tailed King Strich

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A little bit of cross curricular. Art, Science, ICT & English

The creature can be created by drawing, painting, Paint.net or similar programme. The science is adaptation and an array of english possibilites for a variety of aptitudes.

If you have Jo Shapcott’s ‘Of Mutability’ there’s a great poem about thinking yourself into being a barn owl, – Night Flight from Muncaster’ A line or two looks like this

Feel a pair of flat

cheeks grow, satellite

dishes to funnel sound,

The Long-Tailed King Strich – Adaptation

Version 1

It lives on tiny fish that can only live in the pools of rainwater that collect in the holes created when lightning strikes a tree.

It has strong, muscular legs for running long distances looking for trees that have been hit by lightning.

It has a long, wrap around tail for swinging into the branches of trees.

It’s sharp bill makes it easy to catch the fish.

Version 2

King Strich’s survive on tiny fish, only to be found in pools of water found in the branches of trees struck by lightning.

Trees are few and far between on the plains of Africa. For the Long-Tailed King Strich to survive it needs…..

Strong, bulging leg muscles allow the King Strich to wander the plains of Africa looking for the odd tree.

A tail that it can wrap around a branch or a trunk and swing itself up into the tree. Whence it can look for the pools of water.

The tree has to have been struck by lightning as these are the only branches that contain pools deep enough and with sufficient minerals ( from the lightning reaction you understand) for their prey to live in.

A sharp beak for catching the fish.

All in all the Long – Tailed King Strich is a very specially adapted creature.

Version 3

Specially adapted to wandering (it’s those long muscular legs) the plains of Africa looking for the odd tree. Whence it can swing up into the tree (using it’s wonderful tail) and look for pools of water in the crooks of lightning struck branches. These are the only branches that contain pools deep enough and with sufficient minerals ( from the lightning reaction you understand) for their prey to live in. The long sharp beak just gives it the edge in catching the tiny diving creatures in the pools that keep it alive.

Version 4

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Does just what it says on the tin. 32 Ways

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