Life Cycles and Life Expectancy
                               
   In Tuck Everlasting, the Tucks lived forever because they drank the water from the stream. In real life, all animals, including humans, have a life cycle. On this web page you can find information about life cycles and life expectancy.

We start out as a tiny cell.  Between the ages of 11-13, we start to develop into adults. This is called puberty. At the ages of 60-70 we start showing ageing. It takes longer for the wrinkles and tears on our body to go away. Your skin starts to wrinkle and you start to get gray hair and then you die.

 Frogs
       
      Her babies are eggs for 6-21 days. After that they hatch and they are called tadpoles. They are tadpoles 7-10 days. Then they start to get hungry they start feeding on algae. After about 6-9 weeks they get cute tiny legs. After about 9 weeks they are like child frogs. After 12 weeks they become adult frogs.

Reptiles

The snake lays eggs in a rotten tree stump. Inside its eggs the young feeds on the yolk until it grows big enough. It stays in the egg for eight weeks incubating. Then the snake cuts a slit in the shell of the egg using its tooth. The sharp piece of its bone is called the snout. Some snakes give live birth.    
                      
                       
Butterflies          

The female butterfly lays spiky eggs on a cabbage leaf. It takes about a week for them to hatch. When they hatch they are called caterpillars or larva eating cabbage leaves. When they get fat and are not hungry any more they spin silk cocoons around them and hang upside down. And then they start metamorphosing. In the cocoon the body is broken down into new organs and tissue and then it forms in to a butterfly. 


Us –year 2002- total population: 77.4 years. Male 74.37 female 80.2 years (2002). 2001 total population 77.26 years. Male 74.37 female 80.05 (2001).