2. National animal (Basque Country): Osprey
Animal: Osprey
Lives in: The meadows of the Basque Country
Eating habits: All types of fish that fishes
Sleeping habits: At night.In very high trees
Interesting facts: it can fly very fast and in the Basque Country the people have
make some places were the ospreys can stay
3. NATIONAL ANIMAL (Romania): The lynx
Animal: Lynx
Lives in: The Northern Hemisphere, Eurasia and North America.
Eating habits: The lynx is a predator, so it catches and eats other animals.
Sleeping habits: It sleeps at night.
Interesting facts: The lynx is classified as an endangered specie. This is caused
because of the hunting of this animal. They don’t hunt it for food, they hunt it to obtain its
beautiful and hairy skin.
4. NOCTURNAL ANIMAL (Basque Country): Red fox
Animal: Red fox
Lives in: (In spain) Especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
Eating habits: They are carnivorous so they hunt animals and they eat them.
Sleeping habits: During the day it remains hidden among the bushes or in its
burrows.
Interesting facts: It is a silent and very cautious animal, which hunts above all at
night.
5. NOCTURNAL ANIMAL (Romania): The wolf
Animal: Wolf
Lives in: North America, Eurasia and Middle East.
Eating habits: It’s carnivorous; it eats other animals.
Sleeping habits: The wolf is a nocturnal animal, so it sleeps all day and stays active at
night.
Interesting facts: The wolf is a mammal that adapts very easily to its environment, so
it’s easy to find this type of animal in various landscapes, such as tundras, meadows,
forests... except mountains.
6. REGIONAL ANIMAL (Spain): Bull
Animal: bull
Lives in: (Spain) the East Hemisphere
Eating habits: The always eat grass so they are herbivores
Sleeping habits:They sleep at night usually in farms or in meadows.
Interesting facts: The bulls are usually use to fight those in the bullring usually in
Pamplona.
7. REGIONAL ANIMAL (Romania): The bear
Animal: Bear
Lives in: areas little inhabited, calm and with little human presence. But also, there are
some bear species that live in concrete places, as the Polar Bear (it lives in the Arctic).
Eating habits: the bears are omnivorous; apart of meat and fish, they also eat fruits,
roots and insects.
Sleeping habits: The bears sleep for about 8 to 9 hours.
Interesting facts: Nowadays, they just exist 8 species of bear in the world, and 6 of
them are in danger of extinction. (More than the half !)