Animal of the Month

1. Tuna are beautiful and powerful fish who live in all of the world's oceans.
   
   
2. Tuna are among the ocean’s fastest swimmers, a blue fin tuna can swim in a burst of up to 70 kilometres per hour!
   
   
3. Some tuna are thought to live as long as 30 years.
   
   
4. A tuna can swim 100 miles in a single day! That’s the distance from London to Birmingham!
   
   
5. Tuna are migratory animals, which means they don’t stay in the same place but travel throughout the year. Albacore tuna have been shown to migrate 5000 miles, from California to Japan, in less than a year!
   
   
6. The largest species of tuna, the giant bluefin tuna, can grow to be 700 kilograms! That’s about the size of two full grown cows!
   
   
7. Tuna are ‘pelagic’ fish, which means they live in the open sea.
   
   
8. Smaller species of tuna travel in small ‘schools’ which means a group of fish. Larger tuna usually travel alone.
   
   
9. Tuna and dophins often like to school together, although no one knows why (you’d have to ask the tuna and the dolphins!)
   
   
10. Many tuna species have has a sharp drop in their numbers because of overfishing.

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