Monday, November 28, 2011

Lynx - World's Endangered Cat


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.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Black Caiman - World's Largest Alligator


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.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Leatherback Turtle - World's Biggest turtle

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.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Bumblebee Bats - World's Smallest Bats


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.

Friday, November 04, 2011

Hag Fish - Myxine glutinosa



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.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Satanic leaf-tailed gecko

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.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Panthera leo krugeri - White Lion



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.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Yellow-Eyed Penguin - Rarest in the World



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.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Kakapo –World’s flightless and Rarest Parrot


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.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Axolotls - Mexican Walking Fish


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.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum - Glass Frog

Glass Frog Glass Frog or Crystal FrogGlass Frog and their eggsHyalinobatrachium 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.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Meerkat Suricata

Meerkat Suricata
Meerkat Suricata
Meerkat SuricataThe 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.