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American Badger - Taxidea taxus

Classification  Phylum: Chordata  Class: Mammalia  Order: Carnivora  Family: Mustelidae  Genus: Taxidea   Property  The American badger has a level body, short legs and a three-sided face with a long facial hair. It has a long earthy colored or dark coat and has white stripes on the cheeks and a line running from the nose to the rear of the head. It has little ears on the sides of the head and long sharp paws in the front. 

Brown Lemur

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

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. Th ey 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

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 ve...

The Largest Mammal on the Earth

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. Sense...