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Stone Fish - Most Poisonous Fish in the World

2012-01-24T01:28:00.000-08:00

The Stone fish is one of the most poisonous fish in the world and its scientific name is Synanceia verrucosa. This fish is well hidden away in the ocean and its color is brown; often resembles a rock. It usually found in Northern Australia, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The habitat of Stone fish includes shallow water, coral reefs. The Stone fish size is about 30 cm. People swimming in the ocean have to take care, because they can unknowingly hit on the stone fish and inject venom on their foot.

Queen Alexandra birdwing - World's Largest and Rarest Butterfly

2012-01-23T01:51:00.000-08:00

The Queen Alexandra birdwing is the largest and rarest butterfly in the world and its scientific name is Ornithoptera alexandrae. Its wingspan is about 25 cm and is larger than the many birds. This species usually found in New Guinea and Australia and generally live in lowland tropical forest. The male and female butterfly is varying in their size, color, shape and body color; but female is larger than the male butterfly. The diet of this species consist only liquid food. This butterfly is very poisonous and so if the animals eat this butterfly will get into sick; animals may avoid eating those butterflies with similar markings in the future.

King Brown Snake - World's Deadliest Snake

2012-01-12T01:18:00.000-08:00

The Scientific name of King Brown snake is Pseudechis australis, and also commonly called as Mulga Snake. The King Brown snake is not actually a brown snake, but it belongs to one of the black snake family. This specimen is seen in different colors like mid-brown, coppery-tinge, grey, and black in color.

King browns are vigorous snakes with a broad head and its length over 2.5 meters. It usually found in Australia except the east and south coastal areas. The diet for king Brown snake is lizard, snakes, birds, mammals, and frogs. The female king brown snake lay 8 to 20 eggs. It usually found in Australia except Tasmania and Victoria.

Vaquita - World’s Smallest and Endangered cetacean

2011-12-15T03:20:00.001-08:00

The Vaquita is the world’s smallest and endangered small marine cetacean and generally found in Gulf of California. The scientific name for vaquita is Phocoena sinus. In adults its color is dark gray, and in newborn, the coloration is darker than in adults. It eats ocean fish such as Gulf croaker and bronze-striped grunts, small fish and squid.

The pectoral fins of vaquita are longer and its weight is about 55 Kilogram, and generally male can reach up to 1.4m, female can reach up to 1.5meter. Vaquita is also known as Gulf Porpoise or Cochito. Vaquita lays eggs in the month of April and May. Humans are the predator of vaquita and its life span is about 20years.

Water Spider - World's Rarest Spider

2011-12-06T05:27:00.000-08:00

The scientific name for Water Spider is Argyroneta aquatic and it lives its entire life in underwater. It generally found in Northern and Central Europe and Northern Asia. Argyroneta is air-breathing water spiders can breathe by means of a shining bubble of air which they carry entangled in the hair of their bodies.

The water spiders mates and lays its eggs in the air bubble web and it mostly hunts small crayfish and insect larvae, which it kills with its poison; and this is one of the very few spiders in which the males are larger than the females.

Water spider do not possess any gills but they have developed a very clean mode of breathing under water and it’s good at diving, with speeds of 2.3-3.5 cm per second with its length of 1.5-1.7 cm. The water spider weaves its web among water plants and stocks it with air from the surface, which looks like a diving bell and it spins a web on the surface of water and collects bubbles of air to make it full from underneath.

Lynx - World's Endangered Cat

2011-11-28T03:32:00.000-08:00

The scientific name for Lynx is Lynx pardinus and it commonly called as pardel lynx and Spanish lynx. Lynx generally located in Southern Europe, Portugal, Spain and Mediterranean Forests. Lynx relocate and kill other carnivores like foxes, Egyptian mongooses, and feral cats and dogs; to ensure sufficient supplies of rabbit populations and to protect their offspring.

The female Lynx weight is about 37 kg - 57 kg, and the male lynx is about 40 kg - 62 kg. The gestation period for Lynxis 70 Days, and breeding takes place in winter, i.e., in the month of May or June. Its Lifespan is about 12 to 18 years. For last two centuries, its population has been decreased.

Black Caiman - World's Largest Alligator

2011-11-24T03:03:00.000-08:00

The scientific name for Black Caiman is Melanosuchus nige, is one of the largest of all alligator species. It generally found in South America, these species are depleted by overhunting, but rarely seen in nowadays. It is largest reptile in the world and its length is about 5 meters, and has dark scaly skin in its body.

Black Caiman feeds on turtles, fish, birds and deer. Black Caiman have powerful neck, tails and jaws and can grow up to 60cm. Black Caiman lives only in water , because of their skin type and it’s an carnivore animal. This species protect themselves from predator and it has dark skin.

Leatherback Turtle - World's Biggest turtle

2011-11-19T02:02:00.001-08:00

Then scientific name for Leatherback turtle is Dermochelys coriacea. The leatherback is the largest living turtle and the only sea turtle that lacks a hard shell. The leatherback turtle height is 4 to 6 feet and its weight is about 660 to 1,100 pounds. The diet of leatherback turtle is jellyfish. It usually found in Open Ocean, northern part of Alaska, and southern part of Africa.

Ever recorded largest leatherback turtle found on the West Coast of Wales and weighs is about 916 kg.Leatherbacks have in history been taken only infrequently for their meat. The utmost threat used to be to their eggs, and this threat still exists. There are not as many eggs to poach these days; however, because smaller amount leatherbacks show up to nest. Scientists have accomplished that gill-net and longline fisheries are seems to be blame.

Bumblebee Bats - World's Smallest Bats

2011-11-09T06:02:00.000-08:00

Bumblebee Bats is also known as Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat, and usually found in western region of Thailand and recently discovered in Myanmar. Bumblebee Bats is the world's smallest bat and is one of the smallest mammals in the world.

This species size is about 1.1 to 1.3 inches in their length and its wingspan is about 6.7 inches, weighs is 2g. Bumblebee bat has no tail and its upper body colour is either reddish or brown or grey and its underside is pale colour. The diet for Bumblebee Bats is small insects and their reproduction is on the month of April.

Hag Fish - Myxine glutinosa

2011-11-04T00:19:00.000-07:00

The scientific name for hag fish is Myxine glutinosa and it belongs to the family Myxini. The Atlantic hagfish is a deep-water fish, which are almost blind, but have well developed senses of touch and smell.

Myxine (Hag Fish) are generally about 18 inches long with no eyes, have long eel like bodies and tails and the color of the fish range from pink to blue containing black or white spots on their body. This species don’t have any fins or jaw, but instead they have six barbs around the mouth area as well as along on a single nostril.

Hagfish contains 3 accessory hearts with no cerebrum and cerebellum, even no jaws and stomach too and it’s closely related to some primitive creatures such as the lampreys. Myxine easily escape from the predatory fish. Hagfish can be seen in every ocean except in North Atlantic and usually live in cold water.

Satanic leaf-tailed gecko

2011-11-01T02:09:00.000-07:00

The scientific name for Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko is Uroplatus phantasticus and is also called as Eyelash leaf tailed gecko and Fantastic leaf tailed gecko, and found in Madagascar. An adult Leaf Tailed Gecko is normally 3 – 6cm long including their tail and its weight is about 10g t0 30g.

Gecko is solitary species and usually brown in color, but it can also be in deep yellow, purple and deep orange color. They have black dots on their upper side of their body, and it has sticky scales under their toes and fingers which helps them to stick on the trees.

Gecko can be easily escaped from the predator’s like rats, snakes, owl, eagles etc. Gecko is a carnivore’s reptile and feeds on insects, flies, worms and spiders and its life span is about 4 to 8 years.

Panthera leo krugeri - White Lion

2011-10-19T04:26:00.000-07:00

White Lion is the rarest animal in the world. The scientific name for white lion is Panthera leo krugeri. It usually found in South Africa. The white lion cub would be attracted by predators like the hyena, or have difficulty concealing themselves when hunting on the savannah. The white lion have pigment visible in the eyes like golden color, blue-grey, and green-grey. Actually White lions are not albinos, but are leucistic and the rare one among the animals in the world.

Yellow-Eyed Penguin - Rarest in the World

2011-10-17T22:34:00.000-07:00

The yellow-eyed penguin is usually found in New Zealand and it is the rarest and strangest penguin in the world. Its scientific name is Megadyptes antipodes. It is also known as Hoiho, and generally found in South Island of New Zeland, Otago Peninsula, Stewart, Campbell and Auckland Islands.

Adult height of yellow eyed penguin is about 65centimeter and its weight is about 4.5 to 8 kg, flipper length for adult is 20 to 22 centimeter. Yellow eyed penguin diet contains Opalfish, Red and Blue cod, juvenile Arrow Squid, Silverside, Sprat and Ahuru. This penguin is yellow round circle on their eyes and on the bill, and its feathers are yellow in colour.

Yellow eyed penguin can live up to 10 -20 years, and male female lives longer than the female penguin. This penguin’s nest in dense vegetation like dunes and coastal forest. Its nests naturally being lonely from each other, and group together.

Kakapo –World’s flightless and Rarest Parrot

2011-10-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

Kakapo is the only flightless, strangest and rarest parrot in the world. The scientific name for kakapo is Strigops habroptilus and its weight is about 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), and its 2 feet is about 60 cm long. Kakapo is the heaviest parrot, and generally found in New Zealand, Rainforest and grasslands and its life span is about 60 years.

Kakapo is aware of escaping from the mammalian predators. Nearly 62 birds are lived from the past, but nowadays only six parrots are alive and increasing their breeding and its population. Male kakapo is bigger than the female kakapo birds soft feathers cover up it, in its leafy environment, and its feathers are green in color.

This parrot is an herbivores one, and their diet is roots, seeds, buds, cones, leaves, fruits and flowers. Strigops habroptilus ia a parrot who sleeps in whole days and wander the forest during the night time.

Axolotls - Mexican Walking Fish

2011-10-14T22:55:00.000-07:00

The Mexican Walking Fish (Axolotls), scientifically also known as Ambystoma mexicanum, and is usually live in Mexico. However this Mexican fish is not actually a fish, it’s an amphibian. Mexican fish generally found in Mexican lakes of chalco and xochimilco.Due to flooding,

Mexican fish has diminished off and only some species still exist and have found place in the endangered species list.Mexican fish ranges its length up to 15 to 45 cm and its average size is about 23 cm and it has a dark colored body and short legs with 4 digits in front and 5 on the hind feet. It belongs to the family of salamander and has features like external gills and caudal fin from head to vent.

The most peculiar feature of the Mexican fish is its branch like gills, which appeared on both side of the neck covered with featured pink filaments. It is generally found in areas such as with deep salty water and abundance of vegetation, and Mexican fish is a carnivorous and eats on small creatures like earthworms and small insects and even small fish too.

But nowadays, the Mexican fish is dispense off from the world due to water pollution and habitat destruction which are two main reason for the reduction of this species, but still some alive over the Mexico.

Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum - Glass Frog

2011-10-12T00:55:00.000-07:00

Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum is also known as Glass Frog or Crystal Frog, and it belongs to the Centrolenidae family. It generally found in Mexico, Ecuador Venezuela, Amazonian, North, Central and South America, and it lives near rapid streams, i.e., both in cleared areas as well as in canopy level of trees, and also refrain from dry areas such as high mountains and coasts.

The diet of this glass frog is not known one, but probably it eats small insects like red worms and spiders. The male frog height or weight is about 19 to 28 mm and large female is about 23 to 32 mm. Glass frog has its body as transparent skin, in which you can see the heart beat and its length is about 1-2 inches.

Glass frogs are generally active at night, which makes them very hard to spot for predators like snakes and large mammals. During the breeding season they live in the rivers and streams, after laying eggs this glass frog will go back to live high up in the canopy level of trees.

Meerkat Suricata

2011-10-11T04:33:00.000-07:00

The scientific name for Meerkats is Suricata suricatta. It generally found in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, southern savanna and grassland areas., and their distribution depends on the soil type. The male suricata averaging is about 731 grams and female suricata is about 720 grams, and its body and legs of meerkat suricata is long and slender.

Suricata head and body length is, i.e., about between 250- 350 mm, and their ears are small and crescent-shaped. Meerkats have been live for up to 12 years, but its lifespan is about 5 to 15 years. Meerkats is an insectivorous species and it will eat small vertebrates, eggs, and plant matter.

According to African popular belief i.e., mainly in the Zambian region, the meerkat is also called as sun angel, because African people belief that, meerkats protects villages from the moon devil.

Ring-tailed Lemur - Lemuridae Lemur catta

2011-10-10T03:38:00.000-07:00

Ring-tailed Lemur is also known as Lemur catta and its scientific name is Lemuridae Lemur catta. It usually found only on east African island of Madagascar. Ring-tailed lemurs have black skin; frequently its fur is grey in colour and also has patches of white fur on their faces, ears, and underbelly. Ring-tailed Lemur tail is banded with black and white and its tail is about 60cm long.

Lemur is an herbivores animal and their diets such as fruits, leaves, berries, bird’s eggs, tree bark, and insects. Its length is about 42.5cm and its weight is 2.2kg. Lemur can walk or run on the ground and on top of the branches, and as like monkey, lemur also use its tail standing up for balance.

Pinta Island tortoise- World’s Rarest Species

2011-10-08T03:30:00.000-07:00

Pinta Island tortoise is the World’s rarest animal species. The scientific name for pinta island tortoise is Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni. It generally found in eastern pacific ocean.A small island measure just 60 sq km in area, Isla Pinta is residence to swallow-tailed gulls, marine iguanas, fur seals and a number of other birds and mammals.

The most northern island in the Galapagos, at single time Isla Pinta had a blooming tortoise population. However, over the years to due poaching of these calm giants by fishermen and whalers, the number of these kind of tortoises has diminished greatly. Today, Lonesome George (Pinta Island tortoise) is the last remaining subspecies of tortoise from Isla Pinta, and though many hard work have been made to breed him with other tortoises, but they have so far been unsuccessful.

White Peacock -Pavo

2011-10-06T06:18:00.001-07:00

The scientific name for white peacock is Pavo. The white peacock found in Italy, Africa. The White Peacock is commonly mistaken for an albino, but it is a colour range of Indian Blue Peacock. Its white colour makes it looks really wonderful and graceful. White peacocks are the same as the Indian Blue in size and behavior, but this one is white in colour.

In the wild, male Peacocks usually collect a harem of 2 - 5 females. However, in captivity, they are generally satisfied with one. The male has an extremely long tai(trains) which is not actually his tail. The trains serve as a cover for the real tail, which is brown in colour. The train essentially sprouts from the center of the back. Peacocks grow up to 7 inch from tip of beak to end of train.

Oarfish - Longest Dragon Fish in the World

2011-10-03T05:02:00.000-07:00

Oarfish is the longest dragon fish in the world. The scientific name for oarfish is Regalecus glesne.The oarfish is also called as Giant Oarfish, King Of Herrings, Pacific Oarfish, Streamer Fish. Oarfish scaleless body is covered with silver blue skin and red or pink dorsal fin, and can reach up to its length of 50 feet and its weight is 600 pounds.

The feature of oarfish is very long and looks like ribbon-like body, and it has small mouth with no visible teeth, and this species is a food sources for sharks. The oarfish is found in worldwide in all tropical and temperate marine waters and also in Sweden. But now the oarfish is rare one and is not found in the world.

Cassowary - World's Dangerous Bird

2011-09-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

Cassowaries are the world's most dangerous birds and its scientific name is Casuarius. It usually found in Australia and tropical rainforests of North Queensland and New Guinea. Adult cassowary can reach upto 6 feet in height and its weight is about 100 pounds and more. Cassowary lifespan is about 40 to 50 years.

The cassowary’s looks brightly colored blue and purple head and neck with droopy black feathers, and has a large helmet-shaped bony growth on its head. The Cassowary is also one of the most dangerous and complicated animals to keep in the Zoo because of the repeated injuries suffered by Zoo keepers that look after them. Females and males are much related in appearance, but adult females are generally slightly larger than the males.

Chlamydosaurus kingii - Frilled Neck Lizard

2011-09-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

Frilled Neck Lizard is also called as Australian Frilled Lizards or dragon lizard. The scientific name for frilled dragon lizard is Chlamydosaurus kingii and and it belongs to the family of dragons. The Frilled Neck Lizard (sun-loving lizard) is the reptile emblem of Australia, depicts on defunct two-cent coin. The head and body length of the dragon lizard is 28cm and its overall length is generally 70 cm but up to 95cm.

The colour of the lizard matches the land on which it lives, but male lizard is more colorful than the female. Frilled Lizard is not poisonous or harmful to man and usually found in Australia northern Queensland and the Northern Territory. The frilled neck lizard is omnivorous one requires mixed vegetables and fruits as well as insects like crickets, mealworms, and wax worms. Breeding generally takes place in the month of September and the eggs take about 8 to 12 weeks to hatch.

Sciurus Carolinensis - White Squirrel

2011-09-29T05:43:00.000-07:00

White Squirrel is an Oriental Tree Squirrel found in India, Marionville, Missouri, and Exeter, Canada. The scientific name for white Squirrel is Sciurus Carolinensis. This squirrel is white with light brown in its body and orange colors on the bottom of its tail.

White Squirrels are generally active during early morning late afternoon. White Squirrel has never been experimental in the main island (Palawan Island). It is endemic to a small island where major rainforest is gone. The white squirrel is presently found in besmirched habitats such as abandoned coconut plantations mixed with few native trees.

Snub-Nosed Monkey - New Species

2011-09-27T22:23:00.000-07:00

The New Species found in China and it was brought to the zoo by an anonymous man in Wenling. Keepers said that he was unable to decide what the animal – snub-nosed monkey with its hazel eyes and orange, brown and white dappled fur. Last year, this zoo hosted a wedding between Wukong(seven-year-old male) and Xiaoya(six-year-old female).

White Alligator - Mississippiensis

2011-09-21T05:32:00.000-07:00

The Scientific name for white crocodile is Alligator mississippiensis , and is one of the rare animal in the world. Usually it was white in color and also found in south east United States: Florida and Louisiana, the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, coastal South and North Carolina, and Orissa. The eating habits for white alligator is fish, turtles, small mammals, birds and other reptiles and size is about 9 to 14 feet. White Alligator life span is up to 50 years.

Blue-eyed Spotted Cuscus

2011-09-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

The Blue-eyed Spotted Cuscus is a species belongs to the Phalangeridae family. It is found in Indonesia and is one of about 10 new mammal species discovered in the past decade in Papua New Guinea. The scientific name for blue eye spotted cuscus is Spilocuscus wilsoni, and is also called as Biak Spotted Cuscus. It’s a world's third-largest tract of rain forest. But nowadays these species is rare one and not found in the world and their family is decreased.

Tyto Novaeholiandiae - Australian Masked Owl

2011-09-16T05:32:00.000-07:00

The Australian Masked Owl is a barn owl of South Guinea and usually found in non-desert areas of Australia. The scientific name for masked owl is Tyto novaeholiandiae. Its body is covered with brown feathers surround with white, heart-shaped mask, and their coat is brown with light gray spots on their upper back, and their color varies from black to dark brown. Masked owl is the largest owl in Australia and it considered as the powerful owl, and its weight is about 660g and their wings generally span about 35 to 47 cm.

Necturus maculosus – Water Dog

2011-09-15T05:46:00.003-07:00

Mudpuppies are also called waterdogs; always spend their lives in water as like salamander. The scientific name for waterdog is Necturus maculosus. Some salamander will make a noise. Mudpuppies can exceed up to 41 centimeter in its length. The waterdog generally found in Southern Central Canada, United States, North Carolina and South Georgia and also in Mississippi. Waterdogs or mudpuppies lives in the bottom of the lakes and ponds, rivers and streams and it never come out from water. It hides themselves from the rocks, trees and shrubs and its prey is crayfish, snails and worms.

Australian Sea Dragons

2011-09-14T03:45:00.000-07:00

Sea dragons are found in south and east Australian water and their types are weedy sea dragon and leafy sea dragon. The scientific name for weedy sea dragon (also known as Common Sea Dragon) is Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, and for leafy sea dragon is Phycodurus Eques. Sea dragons are not as sea horse, but it belongs to the family of sea horse. Weedy sea dragons are usually brown to yellow in body color and leafy sea dragon are generally in red color with yellow spot on their body.

Both sea dragons have long and thin snouts, no teeth or stomach, and their eyes move independent of each other. Weedy sea dragons grow up to a length of about 45 centimeters and Leafy sea dragon can grow up to 35 centimeters. As like sea horse, male sea dragon is responsible for childbearing or reproduction. The male sea dragons hatch the egg and release it into the water after about 4 to 6 weeks.

Dendrobates azureus - Blue Poison Dart Frog

2011-09-12T21:37:00.000-07:00

Blue Poison Dart Frog is found in some part of South America. Its scientific name is Dendrobates azureus and its body length is about 5cm long and its weights about 8g. These frogs can be easily known by their blue color, it’s usually darker on the limbs and stomach; especially on the head and neck. The blue poison in their skin helps to protect them from the predators like snakes and reptiles, and it release toxins from its body.

The poisonous alkaloid is located in the skin serve of the blue poison frog which is helpful to protect from the predators. Blue poison frog is an insectivore, but rarely feeds on arthropods (non-insect) such as flies, caterpillars, ants and spiders and its lifespan of 4-6 years. The female frog provides unfertilized eggs for their tadpole nutrition, and never found in water, at the time of laying eggs of about 8 to 10 it can seen in water.