Animal_Research_Paper

Animal Research Paper Animal Research Paper 1. Introduction My animal research paper is on the Northern Pike. The Northern Pike is a fish that is found all around the northern hemisphere in fresh water. 2. Classification Kingdom – Animalia Phylum – Chordata Subphylum – Vertebrata Class – Actinopterygii Order –Esociformes Family - Esocidae Genus – Esox Species – Lucius 3. Physical Description The Northern Pike is distinguished by its long, flat, “duck-bill” snout; its large mouth with many large, sharp teeth; and the rearward position of its dorsal and anal fins. There is a total of 6-8 dorsal spines, and a total of 17-25 dorsal soft-rays. Also there is a total of 4-6 anal spines, and a total of 14-22 anal soft-rays. 4. Preferred Habitats The Northern Pike prefers to live in vegetated lakes, quiet pools, and backwaters of creeks and small to large rivers. They usually live in solitary and are highly territorial. They are most active in water ranging from 40 to 72 degrees ferinhite. 5. Food The Northern Pike prefers to feed on mainly fishes, but at times feed heavily on frogs and crayfish. 6. Predators The Northern Pike has very few predators. One of its predators is the Musky when it is young. When they get older humans northern, pike, total, water, predators, one, large, future, eggs, dorsal, anal, weeks, time, spines, spawning, soft-rays, several, prefers, long, live, few, female, feed, during, cm, after, young, years, very, vertebrata, vegetation, vegetated, upstream, until, two