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12-31-14

Cicadas are best known for their buzzing and clicking noises. Males produce this specific noise with vibrating membranes. Cicada noises can sound alike to humans, the insects use different calls to express alarm or attract mates. There are some 3000 cicada species. The cicadas is a bug, herbivore, the average life span is up to 17 years, 0.75 to 2.25in is its size, cloud or plague is the group name of the species. The size of the cicadas are as big as a paper clip. The cicadas loud noisy calls can be heard from a mile away.



12-31-14

Blue whales are the largest animals ever to live on the Earth. Blue whales are baleen whales, which means they have fringed plates of fingernail-like material called baleen, attached to their upper jaws. They also live in all the worlds oceans. The blue whales swim in small groups but usually alone. The blue whales swim about 5 miles per hour. The blue whales have few predators, Sharks and killer whales are the only predators. The blue whale is a Mammal, Carnivore, life span is 80 to 90 years, 82 to 105 is its size, 200 tons is its weight, there group name is pod. The blue whale is relative in size is a bus.