Kingdom of Wild Animals

Any Color Animal

2009-04-24T21:41:00.000-07:00

Nice animal who can change its body color to any color of the environment. It takes very little time to change the color.

Brown Lemur

2009-01-17T22:03:00.000-08:00

Scientific Classification

Eulemur fulvus albifrons

Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Lemuridae

Brown Lemurs are good climbers and spend most of their time in trees. Males and females differ in coat color and facial pattern. They are active in day and night. They live in pairs or in small groups of adult males and females that rarely exceed 20 members. They have most omnivorous diets, including locally available fruits but also flowers and leaves during other seasons. They have also been observed eating various arthropods and some small vertebrates. Female usually give birth to a single infant after about 120 days of gestation. They carry their young on their body. Life span of a brown lemur is about 35 years in captivity.

South American Tapir

2009-01-17T20:45:00.000-08:00

Scientific Classification

Class : Mammalia
Order: Perrissodaotyia
Sub Order: Ceratomorpha
Family: Tapiridae

Tapirus terrestris

Tapirs belong to the odd toed hooped animals or perissodactyla and are related to the Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros.

Today Tapirs are found in certain parts of Asia Chiefly Malayasia, Thailand and Sumatra and are known as Malayan Tapirs. Another 03 species-the South American Tapirs, one of which you see here comes from Brazil, Amazonia and Centrat America.

They feed mainly on leaves fresh sprouts and small branches. Though mainly found on land, Tapirs also spend a lot of time in water to cool off.

They become very active during dawn and dusk.

The gestation period of a Tapir is 8-10 months and gives birth to one cub at a time. Life span extends up to 30 years.

Mysterious Giant Panda

2008-10-04T09:25:00.000-07:00

Giant panda is a large mammal and belongs to bear family. Panda sometimes called the black-and-white cat-foot. Giant pandas are mostly shy, solitary animals. They live most of their lives alone

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ailuropoda

Binomial name Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Do you know panda basically heavy ponderous land creature. Adult Pandas grow to be about 5-6 feet high. They will whey up to 276 pounds and males weighing 10% to 20% more than females. This mysterious creature has a massive head, heavy body, short tail, rounded ears and they have white body with black eye patches, ears, legs, feet, chest, and shoulders. Because of this amazing color combination they were become more attractive and mysterious mammal in the earth.

Bamboo is food and shelter

Like many bears they can climb trees to escape danger or take a nap and they are especially adept at climbing when young. The head of a panda is very large and has developed special molars for chewing plants. Bamboo was the sole item in the diet of the panda. Panda Bears eat over fifteen different kinds of Bamboo. Bamboo is the most important plant in a giant panda's life. Pandas live in cold and rainy bamboo forests high in the mountains of western China. They spend at least 12 hours each day eating bamboo.

How they mate

Unlike any other bear, males will often roar to announce their presence to receptive females. Females may mate with several males during the breeding season. Mating begins in late-March and continues on into May.

Helpless Tiny Cube

Do you know when cubes are born they are blind and very small. They weigh from 3 to 4 1/2 ounces. The panda mother gives great care to her tiny cub, usually cradling it in one paw and holding it close to her chest. For several days after birth, the mother does not leave the cube not even to eat or drink! When they born they covered with white skin but when they become one month older they will have the typical skin design, with 40 to 60 days open them the eyes and with five to six months take them for the first time solid food to itself. These little cubes become 18 month older they leave their parents and start their life independently

Why we need to save

Today, only around 1,600 giant pandas survive on Earth because they have a very short breeding season when a male will look for a female to mate with. Females give birth to one or two cubs.

Some time they didn’t get enough food to survive their life. China has more than one billion people. As people build more cities and farms and use more natural resources, giant pandas lose their homes.

King of the Kingdom

2008-09-27T00:31:00.000-07:00

The lion (Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and lion is one of the biggest cat live in th forest than the tigers.

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Felidae

Genus: Panthera

Lions are very power full animal who usually hunt in a group. Do you believe or not hunting is carried out by female lion in a group. However Lions eat primarily large animals weighing from 100 to 1,000 pounds. They also catch and eat a variety of smaller animals from rodents to reptiles. To catch up their pray lions should be very smart. It uses its powerful forelegs to grab or slap down the prey and they have short and strong jaws with long canine teeth that are used to quickly kill the pray.

Lions spend a very lazy lifestyle, typically active for only two to four hours in the day. They are most active at night and rest during the day.

Lion is only consistently social member of the cat family.Lions lives social group called ‘Prides’ Which normaly consist with 4-12 adult related female lions and 1-6 adult male lions. Male lion will constantly fight off other male lions for leadership of a pride. Male lion has the leadership of pride until they are strong enough to defend the other male lions

When they become weaker and older, new male lions will come along and scare off the weaker lion and become the new leader of that particular pride.

Female lions are considerably smaller than males. They can grow to be 7 feet long, weighing 65 - 90 pounds. Males can be 8 feet long, weighing 130 - 150 lbs. Both have tails 2-3 feet long. They are slate to tawny colored with black-tipped ears and tails. Kittens, or cubs, are covered with blackish spots with dark rings on their tails

Kittens are normally stay up to two years with their mother and after that they leave their pride and search for their own territory. As the youngsters, usually 2- to 3-year-old males, try to find their own place in the world, they are most often the ones that get into trouble with domestic animals.

Why we need to save lions?

We must save the lions before they are gone.time is crusil and at the moment population of lion goes to very low level and they are being gradually move to death, and their claws, teeth, manes and tails taken, presumably for sale. What we can do to save this biggest cat life? Nothing else only thing what you can do is let other people to know the important of having lions in the earth.That will help to reduce the conflict between people and lions.

The Innocent Penguins

2007-09-26T23:55:00.000-07:00

The Penguins are categorized in to the bird family. Because they lay eggs and have warm blood as birds. All of them in same black and white combination of color skins. Because of this color they can protect them self from their enemies such as a leopard seal or the killer whale while they swim on the water. The other thing is the black back side of these birds absorbs the warmth from the sun and helps keep them to be warm.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae

They are Good Swimmers

Although they categorize as birds they can’t fly like other birds live on the earth. They are good swimmers. Like bird fly on the air they use their flippers for swimming through the water. Penguins are spending more than 75% of their time in underwater for finding foods. They can dive very deep in under water and their large round eyes help them to see through the water very clearly. You may wonder sometime, to which category these animals are belongs. Because most of the time of their life is spend in the sea but they cannot breaths under the water like other animals live in the water. But they are able to hold their breath long time in the water.

Where They Live?

There are 17 species of penguins in the world, each distinctive. You can see this fun innocent creature at Antarctica, Africa, Australia and many other cold countries like New Zealand. When they are in land they move over the land by walking, jumping and sliding. Once the penguins are ready to mate, male penguin stand on and make a loud call to attract the female. When the penguin finds a mate, they bond with each other by touching themselves. They also "sing" to each other and learn to recognize each other's voices. Normally they keep these affairs for years and like to have their own chicks. Female penguin lays one or two eggs and makes the nest to protect from dangers. They made their nest from rocks, pebbles, sticks and anything they can find from the environment they live on. After they lay eggs, female go out for find food while male penguin waits to protect the eggs. When female returns male penguin go for find out food.

When the chick is hatched, it starts to make sounds and its parents recognize chick by voice. Now both of the parents can go for find out foods and chick is stay with the group of penguin until parents return. Parents identify their chick from the group by recognizing its voice. Male and female both bring foods in their stomach for chick and care him until strong enough to find food their own.

How They Warm Their Body?

The Penguins are warm blooded and their body temperature is near to 100 F. But, how do they stay warm in the cold places like Antarctica? As you normally see in the pictures penguins always like to stay together with their group. Penguins huddled shoulder to shoulder with their wings tight against their body keeping each other warm. The other thing is they have a layer of fat under their skin called "blubber". That helps them to keep in warm.

What They Eat?

The diet of penguins varies by the species and in some cases, the location of penguins find foods in the ocean. They eat fish, crustaceans (like krill, etc.) and squid. Young penguins eat up to two pounds of food an hour.

Why We Need To Save Them?

Millions of penguins were killed by ancient people to get the oil from their body. This oil is used as lamp fuel and the painting material. Nowadays it is totally prohibited to hunt the penguins, but unfortunately still its happening.

The global warming is also directly affected to this little creature’s life. This causes to drop off the amount of food for them in the ocean. The reduction of their food supply would result to decrease the number of penguin friends are live on the earth.

Strong & Colorful Vipers

2007-09-25T03:19:00.000-07:00

The Viper is a very dangerous but also at the same time, a very beautiful snake found in the wilds of our world. These snakes are very poisonous and they intelligently use tactics to reach their prey. The bright colors of their skin help them to survive in various kinds of environments. Generally, these beautiful creatures are found with red, yellow and green color skins. They have large tubular fangs in the front of their mouth, which are hinged, allowing them to be folded back when it is not in use.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae

What They Eat?

Vipers have highly specialized diets. They eat insects, eggs, fish, birds, small mammals, amphibians, large invertebrates and other reptiles including snakes as well. Once they have caught a fresh prey, they wait until the venom they had injected into the body of the prey to take affect before consuming the creature. Another important fact about these snakes is that they are capable of making decisions on how much venom to inject depending on the situation. Because of their particular kind of venom, a viper’s bite is very painful experience for a human. Most of the time, a viper bite is considered as a serious injury and a threat to the victims’ life.

Viper Love

A male viper follows the female viper until she gives the chance to be with her. Mother viper gives the birth to many little ones. Most interesting thing about this snake is she keeps her eggs in her mouth and feed them until they grow.

Vipers have to hide from humans because the viper’s soft skin is very much valued and to get that they kill them. Because it is so smooth, people like to wear it or use them to make other things.

The Largest Mammal on the Earth

2007-09-14T05:13:00.000-07:00

The Elephant is the largest mammal to be found on the surface of the Earth. Most of them have a very thick black or gray color skin. Their skin helps them to keep their body cool. Another amazing feature of the elephant is that they have a trunk, which can be used as a nose, hand, extra foot, signaling device, as a tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, as well as digging.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Super family: Elephantoidea
Family: Elephantidae

Average lifetime of the elephant has been measured as 70 years. Little baby elephants are almost like a human baby in their behavior. An impregnated female elephant takes close to 22 months to carry a baby elephant to term. After the birth, the baby elephant is expected to learn many things for it to survive in the wild. They have to learn how to use their trunk to get food and water and how to wash their body and so many other things.

Senses of Elephants

When we consider the senses of human beings we have the senses based on the life time experience. It almost depends on what we see, hear and smell. Our senses play a huge role in determining the world around us. Nevertheless, when we consider this large animal, their world is much different from our world. An elephant typically does not have far-reaching eyesight as humans do. However, they have a stronger sense of smell than we do.

Why We Need to Save this Mammal?

Elephants are a unique and valuable animal who roam the same world we live in. Elephants are sometimes seen to represent power and peace. Asian elephants have participated in many historical events. The kings who reigned in the Asian countries chose the biggest, most magnificent elephants for royal ceremonies and processions. In the past, elephants were used to transport goods and people but in the present, we use this animal as a tourist attraction and also for traditional festivals.

Today, we have to protect these elephants from ivory traders and poachers. Any one who wishes to trade with ivory jewelries helps to kill these elephants. The next time you think of buying jewelry made of ivory, think twice about it. Help to protect this highly emotional and strong animal for our future world.

Sri Lankan Elephant

In Sri Lankan terms we call the elephant as “Aliya” or “Etha”. They are very familiar animals for people in Sri Lanka. They represent a very large national value to us as well. The Sri Lankan elephant is somewhat different to the African elephant. Firstly, it has much smaller ears than its African cousins.

The Elephant in Sri Lanka play a vital role in the “Kandy Esala Perahera” wiki. In this traditional event, impressively decorated elephant’s proceed through the streets of the city of Kandy.

Another fact regarding elephants in Sri Lanka is the very famous elephant orphanage at “Pinnawala”. This orphanage is the home to about 60 elephants including elephant calves found abandoned in the wild. You can see many Sri Lankan elephants at “Pinnawala”, “Udawalawe”, “Yala national park”, “Habarana”, “Dambulla”, “Sigiriya”, “Maduruoya”, “Wasgomuwa”, “Lahugala”, “Galloya”, “Inginiyagala” and “Thanamalwila”.

Amazing Details about Frogs

2007-09-13T06:22:00.000-07:00

Science Clarification about Frogs

Frogs are belongs to zoological class called Amphibia and there are three kind of categories called Salientia, (frogs and toads), caudate (salamanders and newts) and caecilians (worm-like amphibians).

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura

Frogs has ability to live in various types of climates. You can find these amazing animals in anywhere like in water or desert.

Frogs are cold–blooded animals which mean their body temperature is change according to the environment where they live. Do you know frogs don’t want to drink water like other animals live in the world? Because they have special kind of wet skin which has ability to absorb water. Other specialty of these animals is they can breathe using 2 different ways. By using their lungs and also they can breathe through their skin.

How They Eat

Frogs eats any small kind of insects, small fish, and spiders and also worms. All foods get in to mouth swallowed whole because they can’t chew or bite.
The other amazing feature of this animal is they use their long sticky tongue to catch-up their foods. For a frogs its takes just a less than a second to roll out their tongue and catch the insect and roll back in to their mouth.

To catch–up insect which moving so fast, frogs has large round eyes and also they can see wide range of colors and also can see even in the dim lights. They also can see different direction without moving his heads even little.

Life Cycle of a Frog

Egg – Female frog laid tiny frog eggs in the water
Tadpole - (also called the polliwog) Tadpole are the one that coming from the egg. Tadpoles have a little tiny tail and they are in black color and also spend its time swimming in the water
Tadpole with legs – In this time tadpole has legs (and then arms), and a longer body with more distinct head.
Frog let - In this stage, the almost mature frogs breathes with lungs and still have a tail
Adult - The adult frog breathes with lungs and tail is absorbed by their body.

Why We Need to Save Them

Frogs are very sensitive to changes of the environment. Slight changes in the environment are often detected by frogs well before any other animal. This ability of frogs helps to recover potential problems before it is too late.

Other important of these animals are
They have powerful chemicals in their skins. These chemicals yield a variety of drugs that are useful in medical practices.

Because of the human activities all around the word our amazing frog friends are going to be disappearing. Its time to focus on how important this special amazing animal and try spend some time to save their life.

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