The Whipsnake's Ecosystem

        First of all, you must know what an ecosystem is. An ecosystem is an environment where a certain type of animals thrive. For instance, the ecosystem of a jungle ecosystem would consist of the grass and plant life on the bottom. They are called primary producers, because they make or produce their own food with photosynthesis. Then, the Tapirs and other herbivores would come next. They are called primary producers. A good example of one is a cow. You don't see cows running around trying to eat humans. No, they eat grass only. Now comes the secondary consumers. They are made of omnivores and small carnivores. The next are the tertiary, and they are pretty much the medium sized carnivores. The last is the apex predator. There should only be about one per habitat. Since they are the top of the food chain in each habitat, if there were more than one, they would eat to much prey and destroy the habitat. The apex predator has the job to make sure that the animals below him in the food chain don't get out of control and overpopulate, thus throwing the whole thing out of place.

      My animal, the Whipsnake, lives in the desert. It literally lives under a rock, or in abandoned burrows. It needs shady areas to maintain a cool body heat, to keep its eggs at the appropriate temperature, and to protect its self from hawks and other large predators. They  have been found populating other areas, too. They have been found in grasslands, rocky canyons, sagebrush deserts, juniper forest, woodlands, oak forests, and pine forests.