School Animal Project- Animal in sealed bottle to survive a month?

Question

Its a school project, where we have to put an animal in a 2 litter bottle with food, water, shelter, etc. The catch- the bottle has to be airtight with no airholes, or any opening. We have a month and it has to live at end of month. Impossible to cheat, stored at classroom.

First of all, the teacher checks all the animals to see if they have a posibility to survive. The animal picked usually survive, because there adapted for those conditions. The purpose is to see an amimal behavior- human behavior. It is an AP Environmental Science Class. The animals are also realesed to their natural habitat.

Answer 1

I had to present a collection of arthropods, I had this cocrach in a bottle for 3 weeks with no food, no air holes, no water and some poison to kill it... it never died, we even put the animal in the freezer and when we tought it was dead we took it out of the bottle and it started walkin!!!!!!

Answer 2

What about a sea monkey? I think they're really brine shrimp, very tiny so the air in the bottle might provide enough oxygen for the whole time. Not sure about their food though. There must be some critter out there that's impossible to kill!

But, I agree, this seems like kind of a mean experiment. I hope the teacher blocks any that seem doomed to fail.

Answer 3

Any one of a number of species of scorpion would do just fine. They have very low metabolism, and will survive in confinement for weeks or months.

An alternative would be another arachnid, such as a spider. I have had some local Latrodectus species in Mason jars for several weeks or months. Although some air gets in, I'm sure it's not very much. They have persisted and are quite plump despite receiving no food or water for weeks at a time.

Answer 4

This seems to be a kind of ill-spirited school project. Without fresh air, the poor animal will surely die! Is there some kind of a scientific reasoning as to why the school is doing this?
What will that teach the children that they don't already know? It's kind of a common sense thing.

Answer 5

Use a Beta (fish). Put it in the bottle with a plant or two. You should put in some food to start with, but not much. The beta will feed off of the roots of the plant. The plant will produce oxygen for the Beta & the beta will produce CO2 through it's respiration.

Answer 6

Wow! we ought to get to Uranus as quickly as plausible! because in the worldwide its impossible to get to temperatures under absolute 0 ( - 273 C) i think the regulations of Physics have been suspended. there is a lot shall we do with magic stuff, it extremely is what ought to be there under 0°ok. Sarcasm aside. the in the planet isn't that chilly. do slightly study on that. by using fact the sunshine from the solar would be insignificant the flexibility sources will ought to be the planet's middle. (Or magnetic fields). meaning that the animal will ought to be waiting to stand up to superb pressures. The "gasoline" would be very dense so the creature will swim. Why no longer some ideas from deep sea creatures ( lures, extendible jaws, and so on.). ignore the better surroundings, there will be little action there. BTW, i think of you're incorrect approximately it being impossible. there is in all probability adequate power on the middle to assist a extensive atmosphere. The trick might in all probability be to have the desirable suited molecules (and factors) and the desirable suited distance from the warmth to permit existence to conform/proceed to exist. i may be marvel if sometime we don't take it upon ourselves to "seed" those planets and moons with tailored existence of our very own creation.

Answer 7

Brookstone carries such a product. It is red shrimp algae and microbes. these usually last for up to two years, so the project is possible. I would attempt it with brine shrimp and water plants, same concept but easier materials to find.

Answer 8

Are you just telling us this or what? Do you need us to call PETA? Or are you wondering what you can use? Insects are animals too. You could get a cockroach or something thats hard to kill.

Answer 9

Go with something like a spider.