Animals

[|Ursus Americanus] is also none as the Black Bear. Black bears are [|mammals] and [|omnivores] this means that they eat meat and plants as there primary food sorce.Black bears normally live in the forest and are really good tree climbers. They are also found in mountains and swamps. Most of the black bears diets contain grasses, roots, berries and insects. [|Black bears] also eat fish like salmon. Black bear mothers protect there cubs which stay with her for about two years. Black bears are very good swimmers. They have a very good sense of smell but they have bad eye sight. They are black and brown. The black also live and hibernate in the costal rainforest. They also hibernate in the winter. The male black bears weighs around 250 females weight 150. They are three feet tall from ground to shoulder. They usually hibernate in caves and dead hollow [|redwood] trees.  This progect is about elk or Cervus Elaphus. An elk weighs 35 pounds when they are born and they gain two pounds a day every few weeks. It weighs up to 500 pounds. It can weigh 5 times as much as it did at birth at the start of their first winter. Female elks can stand 4.5ft at the shoulder and 6.5ft from its nose. Males can stand 5 feet at the shoulders and 8 feet from their horns. Elk are like big deer. They have really big antlers, don't have a lot of fur and they have really short tails. They eat flowers, shrubs, grass, bark and baby trees. They live in the coastal rainforest. The elk depends on this food and it's habitat because it coundn't survive with out it's habitat. The main predator of the elk is the mountain lion and the wolves. Elk protect themselves by using there antlers.
 * Black Bears**
 * ELK**

The cougar has many names like Mountain Lion, Puma, Panther, and its scientific name is Felis Concolor. A cougar is a huge cat that's tan and can reach the weight of 100 to 145 lbs. A cougar has very thick fur to keep them warm. Cougars can catch really fast prey because they have little to no body fat. Cougars have been getting hunted for a long long time so they had to move from North America to mountains, swamps, and forests. These animals are carnivores that means they like to eat animal flesh and even human flesh some times. They have to eat about 10 to 15 pounds a day to survive. Cougars are mammals that means they give live birth.
 * COUGARS**