pets | science

Is Your Cat a Small Tiger?

Chris Pfefferkorn, General Curator (person in charge of the animals) at the Oregon Zoo helped us answer this question.

What’s the same?

Cats range in size from a 700-pound Tiger to a 3-pound housecat. Cats’ body parts are adapted to allow cats to stalk, kill, and eat animals for food. “Watch your cat stalk. This is how wild cats hunt,” Chris says.

Cats are also able to… MORE

nature ~ kids

KID'S NATURE JOURNALS

Rock Pigeons

My home town, Portland, is a great place for Rock Pigeons to live. Portland’s birds are descendents of those brought to North America from Europe in the 1600’s.

People enjoy feeding these birds and city dwellers throw away enough food to feed a large Rock Pigeon population.

Weighing less than a pound, Rock Pigeons are 13 inches long. Males are slightly… MORE

Do you know? All birds’ necks are long, even when they do not appear that way. Hummingbirds… MORE

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