Crocodiles and Alligators

Sharks
 H/A
M/A

Spiders
L/A

Sharks have rough skin and they cannot fold their fins. Sharks have strong jaws (mouths) and many have sharp
Crocodiles
teeth, butand
somealligators
have flatbelong
grindingto a group
teeth. of have
Sharks reptiles called sense
a fantastic crocodilians. These
of smell and canfierce carnivores
sniff out food from huge
Spiders are
(meat-eating
distances. the
animals)
There world’s
are have
about 350most
not typescommon
changed much land
for
of shark; they carnivore
millions
include of (eats
years.
some of the largestmeat).
Today, there There
are
fish in the are about
world.different
14 types
40,000 different types of spiders and they live in nearly every part of the world. All
of crocodile, 2 types of alligator and 6 types of caiman.
spiders have a pair of fangs; these fangs release venom (poison).
Why do hammerhead sharks have a funny
shaped
How dohead?
crocodiles care for their young?
Crocodiles
There are lots make much about
of thoughts betterwhy parents than many
hammerhead
other
sharks
Do all spiders reptiles.
have
make A
strange
webs? female
shaped Nile crocodile
heads. Some lays
think up
it isto
to75
eggs,
help
Not all spiders the
make she
sharkburies
webs, move
butthem under
through the than
water.sand in
Others the
think
hunt on theit riverbank.
helps
ground, their
likeShe
sense
the ofthey
guards
smell
jumping
all– make
them most
spiders,
silk. Many
for hammerheads
about
and 3 months
some
even build trap-doors under ground so they can hide gently
until
have they
nostrils hatch,
on the and
outerthen
tips carries
of theirthem
heads. and in
wait for their her
preybig mouth down to the water. She goes on
(food).
protecting them from predators (animals that
would want to eat them) for another few weeks,
before leaving them to fight their own battles.

Great white shark.

HowCrocodile
do greatgrazing in thefind
whites sun. their food?
When the great white shark
Spider webis close
with to another animal, it
rain droplets.
can
HowWhen sense
fastthey electrical
areare currents
alligators? made by the animal’s body.
further away, it has a
Alligators, such as the American alligator, can run powerful sense
fastofon
smell that can track the scent (smell) of
land, but they are even quicker in water. To swim, they fish from a great Did you know…
distance. Great whites have good eye-sight.
tuck their legs under their bodies and swish their strong They see well When baby crocodiles hatch out of their eggs,
in the dark and have a good sense of hearing.
tails from side to side, powering themselves through the they call out for their mother.
water. Crocodiles andSpider
alligators
waitinghave thick,
to jump on itsscaly
prey. skin
Black widow spider.
whichHammerhead
protects themshark.
from being attacked.
The American alligatordangerous?
lives in south-eastern USA, in warm You can tell crocodiles and alligators apart by
Are
riversblack
and widows
swamps. It will their teeth. When an alligator shuts its mouth
There are water
Which
including overis 30
the types
birds, ofeat
fastest
fish
almost
widow
shark?
and
anything it can catch,
spiders,
turtles. In busy areas, the you can’t seeDid youFun
any teeth know…
in itsFacts!
bottom jaw. When
including
American the red back
The short-finned
alligator will in Australia.
Mako Both
shark isattack
sometimes the fastest shark. Itthat
farm animals a crocodile Not can
closes
Whale sharks all
its spiders
mouth
grow over have
you 8 see
14can eyes,
metres insome
the
black
get is
too widow
very and red
streamlined
close back
to the water. and widow
agile are mainly
(quick). It is thought fourth toothonly
length. haveside
on each 6. of its bottom jaw.
blackbywith
some a red
thattummy to warn
it can travel upoff
to 70 miles per hour. Tarantulas
Hammerheads grow upare to the largest
4 metres longspiders.
and
predators
It eats(any
otheranimal thatas
fish such might
tuna,want toare also some
which are found inSome
warm jumping
seas. spiders can jump
eat them!).
of the fastest swimming fish. 30 times
The world’s largesttheir
fish isown bodyshark.
the whale length.
Spider on its web. The longest known great white is 6 metres.