Animal You: November 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012

Boa Constrictor

Animal You | Boa Constrictor | The Boa constrictor is a large snake, although small in comparison to other large snakes such as the reticulated python and the Burmese python, and can reach a length of 3 to 13 feet (0.91 to 4, 0 m) depending on location and the availability of suitable prey. It is clear sexual dimorphism seen in the species, females are generally larger in length and width than males. As such, the average size of a mature female boa is between 7-10 feet (2.1 to 3.0 m), while it is 6-8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 m) for males. A report of a Boa constrictor growing up to 18.5 feet (5.6 m) was later found to be a misidentified green anaconda.The Boa constrictor is a snake body thick and large specimens can weigh up to 27 kg (60 lb). The size and weight of a subspecies Boa constrictor...

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Camel

Animal You | Camel | The average life expectancy of a camel is 40 to 50 years. Camels can run at speeds up to 65 km / h (40 mph) in small groups and support speeds up to 40 km / h (25 mph).See camels coupling Not directly store water in their humps of camels, as once commonly believed. This process of fat metabolism generates a net loss of water through respiration for the oxygen required to convert the fat. Camels are able to withstand changes in the consumption of body temperature and water kills more animals than others. Is a characteristic nostrils large amounts of water vapor is trapped in fume and returned bodily fluids, thereby reducing the amount of water lost through respiration.Camels can withstand the weight loss of at least 20-25% due to sweating (most mammals can only...

Bald Eagle

Animal You | Bald Eagle | The plumage of adult Bald Eagle is evenly brown with a white head and tail. The tail is moderately long, slightly wedge-shaped. The legs are feather-free, and the toes are short and powerful with large talons. Immature Bald Eagle Golden Eagle in that the former has a protruding head with great distinction beak, wings held straight flat (not slightly raised) and with rigid wings and feathers that cover the legs completely. The bald eagle is from time to time. That the largest raptor truth (accipitrid) in North America, the largest California condor is a New World vulture But the eagle in his career in the United States, largely overlapping body weight and size of the bald eagle. In addition, close relatives of the bald eagle, wings shorter but wider white-tailed...

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Black Widow Spider

Animal You | Black Widow Spider | Not all adults have black widows, the red hourglass on the bottom or top of a pair of ventral abdominal some red spots or have no marking at all. Black widows are often several red marks on the back or upper abdomen, usually two red spots. Adult male black widows are half the females and are often gray or brown instead of black and red, even though it may sometimes an hourglass marking on the ventral part, it is usually yellow or white, not red targeted variation of the type and the sex is great, a spider with a red hourglass or a pair of large round red spots on the abdomen waist with a contrast glossy black body, an adult female black widow. Spiders of the genus Steatoda (also Theridiidae family) are often confused with the widow, and are...

African Wild Dog

Animal You | African Wild Dog | The packages are divided into male and female hierarchies. In the female group, the oldest will have alpha status over the others, so a mother will retain her alpha status over her daughters and sisters. Independent wild dogs are sometimes in groups, but this is usually temporary. In contrast, the wild dogs outside attempts to purchase packages occasionally hostile. The African wild dog hunting in packs and small groups. Schaller found that 9 of 10 wild dogs hunting in the Serengeti ended in deaths. Members of a pack vocalize to help coordinate their movements. Wild dogs frequently kill larger prey via disemboweling, a technique that is fast, but has caused this species has a negative reputation, ferocious. After a successful hunt, hunters regurgitate...

Atlantic Puffin

Animal You | Atlantic Puffin | The puffin is 26-29 cm (10-11 inches) in length (cm Bill 3-4), with a 47-63 cm (19-25 inches) wingspan, men tend to be slightly larger than females but color the same. This bird is mainly black above and white below, with gray to white cheeks and red-orange legs. The Bill Bright Orange signature dishes to grow before the breeding season and after playing. The bills are used in courtship rituals, as the pair tapping their bills together. The horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata) North Pacific is very similar, but slightly different headdresses. The Puffin is typically silent at sea, except for soft sounds sometimes fused in flight. In breeding colonies, the most common request is a trisyllabic KAA-AAR-aar, while birds make a short beep when you're...

Friday, November 16, 2012

American Alligator

Animal You | American Alligator | An alligator can be up to 30 to 50 years. In adult males American alligator, medium length 3.4 m (11 feet), while females smaller the average is 2.6 m (8.5 feet). There are reports in the 19th century and 20 great men reach 5-6 meters (16-20 feet). Adult males can weigh about 227 kg (500 lb), while females weigh about 91 kg (200 lb). Wild alligators ranging from long and thin, short and stout, probably due to variations in factors such as nutrition, growth and climate. Alligators have broad snout, especially in captive individuals. When the jaws are closed, covers the edge of the upper jaw, the lower teeth in the jaws form "wells. Adults Alligators are oil Backbones, brown, gray or may be black, while the belly is cream colored. Unlike most...

African Elephant

Animal You | African Elephant | The African elephant is the largest living animal on Earth. African elephant trunk ends in two opposing lips, ending during the Asian elephant trunk with a simple border. Bush African elephants are larger than Asian elephants. The largest recorded specimen was four meters (13.1 feet) at the shoulder and weighs 10 tonnes (10 long tons, 11 tons). Elephants have four molars, each measuring a weight of about 5 kg (11 lb) and 30 cm (12 inches) long. Elephants replace their teeth six times. The teeth with a weight of 23-45 kg (51-99 lbs) and 1.5 to 2.4 meters (5-8 feet) long. Unlike Asian elephants, both male and female African elephants have tusks. The enamel plates of the molars are fewer in number than in Asian elephants African elephant society...

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Lobster

Animal You | Lobster | Lobsters are invertebrates with a hard protective exoskeleton. Like most arthropods, lobsters must molt to grow, making them vulnerable. The antenna head brings lobster antennae, jaws, the first and second jaws, and maxillipeds first, second and third. Because lobsters live in the sea a dark background, which mostly use the antennae as sensors. The lobster eye has a reflective structure on convex retina. Lobster hepatopancreas possess green, called tomalley chefs, which functions as animal liver and pancreas. Lobsters Family Nephropidae are similar in general form of a series of related groups. Research suggests that lobsters can not delay, weaken, or lose fertility with age, and old lobster can be more fertile than younger lobsters. Lobster longevity...

Bull Shark

Animal You | Bull Shark | The bull shark is generally warm global coastal waters, rivers and lakes, rivers and salt and fresh water from time to time, if they are deep enough. Populations of bull sharks are also several major rivers, with more than 500 bull sharks probably live in the Brisbane River. A large bull shark was caught in the canals of Scarborough, two hours north of the Gold Coast. The shark has traveled 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) from the Amazon to Iquitos, Peru. The bull shark is generally fertile in the warm waters and coastal estuaries of the Mozambique Channel and south, including KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique. After Hurricane Katrina, many bull sharks were spotted in Lake Pontchartrain. Bull sharks sometimes spent the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois....

Aardvark

Animal You | Aardvark | aardvark is vaguely pig-like. Average length of the branches. Each foot is a large nail strong, slightly flattened and shovel-shaped form, and can be seen between foot and shoe. Dependence of long ears and tail are thick at the base and gradually sharpened. the smell is a good reason to support the aardvark is a long, thin, like a snake, protruding tongue and elaborate structures form. The weight of an aardvark is typically 40 to 65 kg (88 and 140 pounds). Aardvark color coat and sometimes pale yellow-brown to red-brown earth. aardvark animal is thin and the protection of their tough skin. aardvark found in the bedroom of a recently excavated ant. and protection against predators Aardvark adult dental formula is simply to cut the jaw ago Living fossils genetically...