Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Red Panda (1)



Red Panda or the scientific name Ailurus fulgens is a kind of mammal in the order Carnivora. As the name implies, the Red Panda have fur thick brownish red in color and black-legged. His face is round white with brownish red line from eye to mouth.Long tail with a ring of twelve red and brown criss-cross-young. Tread feet covered by white fur, which is useful to keep the body warm and to walk on snow or ice surface.


This species was originally described to the world of knowledge in 1825. Red Panda taxonomic classification has long created controversy. Previously placed in the tribe of the Red Panda bear family Ursidae because it has similarities with beruangPanda, both have five fingers with an extra finger next five fingers. Extra finger is a modified wrist bone. Red pandas are also placed in a single tribe Ailuridae. But now this species is placed in sukuProcyonidae, its resemblance to species of animals in the raccoon family. Red Panda is the only species in single genus subsuku Ailurinae and Ailurus.

Regional distribution of the Red Panda is in Central Asia. This species is found in the forest Himalayas, Bhutan, People's Republic of China, India, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal.Red Panda is active in the morning and dusk. In the afternoon, they were sleeping and resting on a branch. Although carnivores have digestive systems, like Red Panda has a habit of herbivorous animals. Its main food is bamboo, and including various fruits, roots, grass, berries and other vegetation. For extra nutrition, Red Panda also eat eggs, young birds, insects and small animals.Red pandas are usually female panda gave birth to two kittens. Panda kids was blind at birth, and began to look after three weeks of age. The adult male has no role in child rearing pandas. Red panda males are territorial animals, they mark the area with their hormones menggesekan sac in the objects found in the wild.


Based on the loss of forest habitat and illegal arrests that continued to trade and for their fur, and the areas and populations where the species is found is limited, the Red Panda evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The species is listed in CITES Appendix I.

Panda Bear



Giant Panda (pinyin: Xiong mao), Ailuropoda melanoleuca ("Foot-and-white-black cat") or summarized Panda, is a mammal usually classified in the bear family, Ursidae, which is native to central China. The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions, like Sichuan and Tibet. In half of the 20th century the last, the panda became a kind of symbol of Chinese nation, and now displayed in the gold country.Her Chinese name means "cat-bear," and can also be read in reverse sense. He named the panda in the West because it is similar to the Red Panda, and formerly known as Bear Belang (Ailuropus melanoleucus).

Although the taxonomic he is carnivorous, herbivorous food like most plants, nearly only bambusaja. Technically, like many animals, the panda is omnivorous (Can be called Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore), because they are also known to eat eggs, and insects along with bamboo. Both these foods are sources of protein are required.Telinganyabergerak-motion as they chew.The Giant Panda is also still brothers with the Red Panda, but they are named like their eating habits seem to akrena bamboo. Prior to its relationship with Red Panda was discovered in 1901, the Giant Panda known as two-colored bear.For many decades the precise taxonomic classification of the panda is debatable because both Giant Panda and Red Panda has the characteristics such as bears and raccoons. However, genetic testing revealed that Giant Pandas are true bears and including the family Ursidae. Closest relatives in the bear family is bespectacled bear in South America. It's still debatable whether the Red Panda, including family Ursidaea tau rakut family, Procyonidae.Giant Panda including endangered species, threatened by habitat loss and very low birth rates, either in nature or in the cage. About 1,600 are believed still alive in the wild. The Giant Panda is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), nature conservation organizations.The Giant Panda has claws that odd, with the "thumb" and five fingers; "thumb" is actually bone-modified wrist. Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay on this topic, then use the title The Panda's Thumb for a book of collected essays.


The Giant Panda was first known in the Western world in 1869 by French missionary Armand David (1826-1900). Giant Panda long been a favorite animal communities, partly because the species is cute like a baby, similar to a teddy bear to live. Panda also often pictured lounging, eating bamboo, not hunting, so that adds to its image as a sweet and peaceful animals.Borrowing large pandas to the zoo the United States and Japan is an important part of diplomacy, People's Republic Cinapada the 1970's because borrowing is marked in part the first cultural exchange between China and the West.However, in 1984, the panda is no longer used as a tool of diplomacy. Instead, China began to offer pandas to other countries to borrowing only ten years old. Provisions include a standard lending rate to $ 1,000,000 per year and the requirement that children born during the loan is owned by the People's Republic of China.



In1998 due to lawsuits by the WWF, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requires that U.S. zoos that want to import pandas for ensuring that China mounted a half fare channeled to efforts to conserve wild pandas and their habitats, then the agency would issue a permit the importation of pandas.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Bear

Bears are mammals. Her body was great to have fur to maintain body temperature, short strong legs and strong claws.Bears are still allied with the wolves.Besides having a large skull and jaw and very strong, the bear also has sharp fangs and molars are wide.
The bear has a small tail, the senses of smell and hearing are excellent, five nails per palm of the hand that can not be drawn in, and long hair, thick and rough. They have broad paws, long snouts, and round ears. His teeth are used to survive and equipment and depends on the food. Her nails are used to tear, dig, and arrested. Bear almost the same vision of human vision. Black bears and the like, not color blind, which allows them to distinguish.
Depending on the species, bears can have 32 to 42 teeth. Teeth not bear to kill prey mereka.Gigi devoted canine bear relatively small and are generally used for self-defense or appliance. Molar bear wide, flat and used for cutting and grinding plants into smaller pieces that can be digested.
Bears have four claws. Each paw has five long, sharp nails. Nails can be used to climb trees, tore termite nests and bee hives, digging roots, or catch prey, depending on the species. Do not underestimate the bear, can run to reach speeds of 50 km / h (30 mph). Bears also can move with the flexible and nimble.
Bear fur long and rough. Coat color varies depending on the species. There is a white, blonde or beige, black and white, or brown to black all all. Bear fur color also varies, although they are one species. For example, a black American Bear may be hairy black, brown, reddish brown, or bluish black. Some species, such as the sun bear and spectacled bear have a light-colored chest with facial markings.
In all bear species, males larger than females. Differences between the sexes, the greater the larger species. Male polar bears weigh two times larger than the females, while males of smaller species of bear weighs almost the same with females. Bears can live about 25 years to 40 years. Bears that live in the woods, sooner die than those who live in the zoo.
There are many different kinds of bears such as polar bears, brown bears, black bears, pandas, etc..
HabitatBears live in varied habitats, from tropical to arctic environments, from forests to the snowy environment. Generally they are omnivorous, although some have special foods, such as polar bears. They eat the soil, roots, nuts and berries. They also sometimes go to the river to catch fish. Bears generally go far to find food. When hunting is usually when dusk or early morning except when humans are around.

BehaviorMost bears usually hibernate (or sleep without wake up) during winter.

Types of Bears:Honey bearBrown bearPolar bearsPanda

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Crocodile Niloticus

Crocodile Niloticus is a freshwater predator strongest and largest in Arika. length canreach 6 feet and weighs 730 pounds.
Crocodile Niloticus skin is very hard so that they can protect themselves, only the thin-skinnedbelly. they swim by moving its tail to the right and left.



Deadly weapon crocodile is a strong jaw. while pouncing on its prey, the crocodile jawsnil provide tremendous pressure, so that its teeth stuck with hard into the body of its prey.


Friday, February 4, 2011

Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca) Part III



So whether species Killer Whale?
1. Actual killer whales are not fish, but marine mammals that breathe with lungs. theybreathe using a hole above their heads, which open when killer whales are in the water, and closed when submerged.
2. Killer whales prefer coastal waters near the average depth of 200 meters.
3. like other whales, killer whales gave birth to her son who is in the abdomen for 17months, which then breastfeeding.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca) Part II

killer whales have the cone-shaped teeth and facing backward, so that the prey is difficult to escape,,
how to hunt them is unique, they most like to hunt sea lions child just learning to swim and do not know the dangers,,
indirect killer whales eat his victims, often times they take off and let the children free swimming sea lions, and then they surrounded the frightened child sea lions and then tossed to and fro like a ball in the air over and over until the children crush the bones of sea lions to death, ,

Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca)

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) is actually not the kind of whales but the largest species of dolphins, with the length can reach 7 feet and weigh up to 5 tons,,
such as dolphins, orca are also very agile, they can acrobats jump over the water,, orca can be in water for 30 minutes at a depth of 274 meters,,
killer whales live in groups of between 5 to 30 individuals, they eat fish, sea lions, walruses, birds, turtles, sea otters, penguins, whales, polar bears, reptiles and even moose, they hunt together like a herd of lions, surround the prey from all directions, cornering and launching deadly attacks, they can swim with a speed of 48.4 kilometers per hour,,