Month: December 2019

Adaptation

 

There are canines all over the world from wild and stray to tame and playful, but up in the snowy forests and mountains of North America Asia and Europe lives a silent pack hunter that pushes it to the extreme.The Grey wolf.

 

The Grey wolf is the largest species of wolf on the planet. This massive wolf wights 16 to 60 kilograms and can be from 100-150cm long. They are also well known for the ability to hunt in packs and their distinctive howl.  These large carnivores live up in the cold mountains and forests of North America Asia and Europe were bad wether and temperatures are cold in the extreme and feed on Moose, caribou, rabbits and occasionally they will eat plant matter.

 

The grey wolf s appearance dates back to the ice age with the Dire wolf 10,000 years ago and the Eucyon   8m years ago. These Canines have been built over time with thick coats good senses like eyesight and smell, strong claws and legs and pander paws. The Grey wolf comes in white grey brown or black.

All these are structural adaptations to help them in their environment and to survive.

The Thick fur is to protect them from the wind and bad wether while with large claws and teeth it has no trouble killing  large pray. These large  wolves  have strong legs and padded paws for going over rough terrain.

Another type of adaptation is the Behavioural adaptations. These are adaptations that they chose to use to survive. Grey wolves have many. They hunt in packs to catch their pray buy sneaking up herding and chasing. The leader of the pack is the Alpha. The big bulky male the rules over the pack followed by the alpha female the mate of the Alph male. Then the Beta wolves who are second in command, the rest of the pack then then the Omega witch is the runt of the pack. The pack also has 8 to 20 members.

Here are some others:

  1. They howl to bond and communicate
  2. Young wolves learn by play fighting
  3. If they eat a lot they won’t want again for weeks 
  4. The grey wolf is a territorial animal 

The last and more complicated adaptations are Physiological adaptation witch are adaptation on the inside of the animal like blood or bones. Most of a grey wolfs physiological adaptations are to do with hunting catching and killing their pray like its reflective retainer over it’s eyes gives it night vision to hunt at night. It also has a nose that can pick up smelling 100 times better than  a humans. They also have warm blood to survive in the cold and eyes that are sensitive to movement and sensitive ears for hearing its pray. I also has a large belly.

I got the photos from these websites:

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/542754192563462639/

https://pixels.com/featured/gray-wolf-canis-lupus-pup-amid-lupine-tim-fitzharris.html

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=13-P13-00052&segmentID=1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carisan/2366707699

I got the imfo from these places:

world book

My best book of wolves and wild dogs

Britannica

https://animals.mom.me/wolf-packs-pecking-order-3463.html

 

production reflection

This term we have been working on a production about Australia called hanging onto the bottom of the world. The play was about Australian history and went something like this.

First we were given a series of lines to learn in pairs then we took auditions and some time lasted were given our character and more lines. I was the bride of NSW of the federation (when the colonies of Australia came together). Then we rehearsed and rehearsed and were pulled out of class for more rehearsals. We started by just siting in a circle and saying our lines with our scrip witch was annoying when I didn’t  have many lines. But as the play progressed found that I was on a lot and hardly had time of stage much. We then moved on to moving over a stage with our lines. Then we started to be called out of class  to rehearse our lines and classes were pulled out of work to practice massive senes like the convicts or the cricket match showing federation. A subjects were changed and altered to fit the play like in art we were making props and in music we were learning songs from the play and spot had been changed to play practice. On the week of the play our time tables for the day read ‘production maths production’.

 The show featured the history and federation of Australia. The show began with the tea lady’s entering then started with the federation with the brides of the six colonies, bruce  and Eddie and western Australia   being  late then on came the queen and Eddie and Bruce had a misunderstanding . Then came captain cook, the convicts, Governor Philip, the gold rush then another misunderstanding with bruce and Eddie, a cricket match to explain federation with the pro federations and the antibilites   (They didn’t use a cricket match to decide the real thing then finally the fight for women’s rights and finished by us singing a song we have been learning called the eye of the needle about the convicts on rough seas in Australia.

 We had two performances. A matinee in the day and a night time performance. In the lead up to these performances we faced many challenges like script changing and new position and places. As the  bride of NSW I had  five bridesmaids a vail and tiara with pictures of NSW and some things the represent it. I was also a Chinese miner in the gold rush scene and needed a Chinese shirt and we were a dragon so we also had a dragon head for the front. I was also a solider in the convict part of the performance and had to wear a solider’s uniform and stand straight. A bit about the history of my characters. NSW thought they were the best and had a lot of money because it was the first colony and was the best. The Chinese miners were not treated like the rest of the minders and were alway being picked on and were kept in different camps. 

Doing the play took a lot of use of the Carey positive learner attributes like courage to go on stage and imagination to help to contribute to the play. We also needed Communication and collaboration to know when to go on and when to say certain lines or do certain things we also needed resilience to get through we we got a line wrong or stepped in the wrong place. We also could not have done without Hellen making consumes Tim making us in to performers and Mr Barker teaching us the song and play music for the show.          

 

I think that we have grown in our performing skills and our courage and collaboration and communication. It took a long time to perfect the production and with the work we did we grew from just being us. To being able to pull of a part in Australian history. It was a great experience and I would easily do it again.