PALAWANThings You Need To Know

Where is it?

• South west of the Philippines

•45 nautical miles from Mindoro

•48.8 nautical miles from Sabah in North Borneo.

How’s the weather?Month Temperature High Low

April & May

33 °C (91 °F) √

January, Februar

y & March

21 °C (70 °F) √

Weather/Season

Month Rainfall

Dry February 28 mm (1.1 in)

Wet September 221 mm (8.7 in)

What kind of animals are there?Common

NameScientific Name Features Habitat Feeding

Habit

Bearded Pig

Sus barbatus ahoenobarbus

•Looks like an ordinary pig except that it has a greatly elongated snout and long canines

•have very large coarse hairs forming a white band around mid-snout making an impression of a beard

•Body hairs are generally blackish

•usually inhabit primary and secondary forests or the bushes

•feed on fruits of wild figs and other trees found in the forest

•Root crops

Saltwater Crocodile

Crocodylus porosus •typically 4.8 to 5 meters (15.75 to 16.6 ft) long

•weighs roughly 770 kg (1697 lb)

•Females are much smaller than males

•In the water, it is twice as powerful as it is on land and much faster

•generally spend the tropical wet season in freshwater swamps and rivers, moving downstream to estuaries in the dry season, and sometimes travelling far out to sea

•Juveniles are restricted to smaller items such as insects, amphibians, crustaceans, small reptiles and fish

•can take monkeys, kangaroo, wild boar, monitor lizards, birds, domestic livestock, water buffalo, sharks and humans

Common Name

Scientific Name Features Habitat Feeding Habit

Star Fish / Sea Stars

Asterias Forbesii •possess a hydraulic water vascular system that aids in locomotion

•On the end of each arm or ray there is a microscopic eye (ocellus), which allows the sea star to see, although it only allows it to see light and dark, which is useful to see movement

•the world's oceans, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian as well as in the Arctic and the Southern Ocean (i.e., Antarctic) regions

•broad depth range from the intertidal to abyssal depths (>6000 m)

•Eats mollusks such as clams, oysters, some snails, or any other animal too slow to evade the attack (e.g. other echinoderms, or dying fish

Horseshoe Crab

Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda

•entire body of the horseshoe crab is protected by a hard shell

•have two large compound eyes and multiple smaller simple ones atop the carapace

•have five pairs of legs for walking, swimming and moving food into the mouth the long, straight, rigid tails can be used to flip themselves over if they are turned upside down, so a horseshoe crab with a broken tail is more susceptible to desiccation or predation

•live primarily in shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms

•ccassionally come on shore, e.g. for mating

•omnivorous scavengers, feeding upon small bivalves, mollusks, worms, dead fish and algae

Horseshoe crab

Star Fish

Saltwater Crocodile Bearded Pig

What type of plants are there?Common Name

Scientific Name Features Habitat

Cashew Nut

Anacardium occidentale

•small and evergreen•growing to 10-12m (~32 ft) tall, with a short, often irregularly shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin

•widely grown in tropical climates

Coconut Tree

Cocos nucifera •large palm, growing up to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaves 4–6 m long, and pinnae 60–90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly, leaving the trunk smooth

•The coconut palm thrives on sandy soils and is highly tolerant of salinity

Mangrove Rhizophora stylosa •poorly drained, lacking in oxygen and are often fine grained and rich in organic matter soil

•live in muddy, wet soil in tropical or subtropical tidal waters

Common Name

Scientific Name Features Habitat

Cattleya Orchids

Cattleya aclandiae •Labiate produces one-leaved with 1-3 large flowers, whereas bifoliate produces two-leaved with huge numbers of narrow, small and colored flowers

•Ample water is needed during periods of active growth; less water during the winter

Finger Corals

Porites Cylindrica •has various colors such as, yellow or brown or green or blue, and it is the colony branch coral and it grows up to be the huge hemispherical colony, which exceeds the diameter of 2m

•Inner reef, the shoal of the edge outside a reef

Carpet Moss

Mnium hornum •simple, rootless evergreen plants •most often found covering the ground, growing on stream beds, and on the base of trees in deciduous woodlands

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Cashew Nut Plant

Mangroves

Finger Coral

Coconut Tree

Carpet Moss

Food Chain

Producer

Primary Consum

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Secondary

Consumer

InsightsNot just as a marketing student major but as a native of the Philippines it is important to know that these biomes are present in our country.

It can:•bring up an idea to market these places for tourist attractions that can help our economy and fellow natives of the area •encourage the business firms to preserve and not use these places for industrialization because it’s the closest thing we have to a paradise that can be enjoyed from generation to other generation•it can also enlighten us to stop our polluted ways of trashing our environment because preserving these biomes can help a lot in the planet’s fight against global warming•not only can we save our mother earth but we can also save ourselves from dreadful diseases caused by pollution

Resources

•http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_scientific_name_for_a_cashew•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew•http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Scientific_name_for_coconut•http://www.niobioinformatics.in/mangroves/MANGCD/what.htm•http://www.growingorchidhelp.com/different-types-of-orchids/•http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/006/english/hyakka/doubutu/sangorui/index.html

•http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/006/english/hyakka/doubutu/sangorui/index.html

•http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/carpet_moss.htm•http://www.climatetemp.info/philippines/puerto-princesa-palawan.html•http://www.palawaniana.net/products/bearded-pig-sus-barbatus-ahoenobarbus-/•http://www.palawaniana.net/products/saltwater-crocodile-crocodylus-porosus-/•http://factoidz.com/facts-about-the-palawan-bearcat/•http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_scientific_name_for_jellyfish