This week we worked on parachuting cats in Borneo because we were on the topic of food webs. I made a storyboard about it:
We made either a drawing or a storyboard about parachuting cats in Borneo. We had to portray the sequence by which Malaria spreads across Borneo. The WHO sprayed DDT to kill off the mosquito population and in the process killed off the parasitic wasps because they ate the dead mosquitoes and got DDT. But the wasps also ate thatch-eating caterpillars and without the wasps they flourished and ate all of the thatch roofs. In Borneo, being an impoverished Country, there were many houses with thatched roofs. The DDT was also consumed by flies and they died of DDT which were consumed by lizards who died of DDT who were then consumed by cats who died of DDT. The death of the cats lead to flourishing rats, and rats were bad because they carried Thyphus and the Sylvatic Plague so the WHO parachuted cats into Borneo.
Food webs show the consequences formed in our food system when it is tampered with.
After studying all of this, my questions are:
- Can I have a king rat?
- Why is there a lion in the last frame?
- Why are my fourth and fifth frames so trash?
- What can we do to prevent this from happening?
I don’t think your fourth and fifth frames are trash.
My three questions:
1. Why didn’t the cats they parachuted in die, too?
2. Why is there a lion in the final frame?
3. Why don’t you have three serious questions? I enjoy the joke questions, but maybe it would be better to add jokes to the actual three questions, hey?
Also, I wish this software had the ability to link the inset image to the blown-up version so it would be easier to read. Can you see if you can add a link to the image?
Great job Lars! Well written, informative, and interesting.
Lar’s remember when I asked you to name the interactions and relationships that were happening in the story? Mutualism, parasitism, predator-prey, etc.
Hi Lars – later this week, let’s work on naming the interactions and relationships happening in the story. I would love to see how the storyboarding software works. And then let’s figure out how to make it a little larger in the blog post so it’s easier to read.