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Good effort! Needs more personal insights/reflections/inferences and better organisation of info and pictures though.

Members: Chia Zhi Ren, Jonathan Chew, Nicholas Ngan

Flying lemur: Colugos are fairly large for a tree-dwelling mammal: at about 35 to 40 centimetres in length and 1 to 2 kilograms in weight, they are comparable to a medium-sized possum or a very large squirrel. The flying lemur's most distinctive feature is the membrane of skin that extends between their limbs and gives them the ability to glide long distances between trees.However, they are clumsy climbers. Lacking opposable thumbs and not being strong, they proceed upwards in a series of slow hops, gripping onto the bark of trees with their small, sharp claws. Colugos are shy, nocturnal, and restricted to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. In consequence, remarkably little is known about their habits, although they are believed to be generally solitary, except for mothers nursing young. They are certainly herbivore, and are thought to eat mostly leaves, shoots, flowers and sap, and probably fruit as well. They have well-developed stomachs and long intestines, capable of extracting nutriment from leaves. Monitor lizard: Monitor lizards are usually large reptiles, although some can be as small as 20 centimeters in length. They have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs.



[[image:http://ecolibrary.org/images/full_image/Mangroves_Paranagua_Harbor_Brazil_DP11.jpg width="408" height="307"]]Prop roots
Branching from the stems of a plant, prop roots are to give the plant extra support when brackish water comes in. They anchor the plant to the soil so the plant will not be uprooted when the soil is too wet and does not provide as much support. They also take in oxygen.

= Pencil Roots =

Mangrove trees develop pencil like roots to absorb oxygen from the air as in the mud of a mangrove, the oxygen level is extremely low.

**knee roots**

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Family: Varanidae Genus: Varanus

Monitor lizards are usually large reptiles, although some can be as small as 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length. They have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs. Most species are terrestrial, but arboreal and semi-aquatic monitors are also known. They lay 7 to 37 eggs which they often cover in soil. The various species of //Varanus cover// a vast area, occurring through Africa, the Asian subcontinent from India and SriLanka to China, down Southesat Asia to Indonesia, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Australia and islands of the Indian ocean, and South China Sea. There is also a large concentration of monitor lizards in Tioman Island in the Malaysian state of Pahang.