Green Sea Turtle

 

Animal You | Green Sea Turtle | His appearance is typical of a sea turtle. Exceptional specimens can weigh 315 kg (690 lb) or more, with the largest known C. Mydas weighed 395 kg (870 pounds) and measures 153 cm (60 inches) lengthAnatomically screen, some features of the green turtle from the other members of his family. Unlike the closely related hawksbill turtle, the green turtle snout is very short and its beak broken. The back of the turtle's head has a single pair of prefrontal scales. Among the green turtle has four pairs of inframarginal shields the area between the turtle plastron and its shell. The carapace of the turtle has various color patterns that change over time. Hatchlings of C. Mydas, such as sea turtles, have mostly black carapaces and light-colored plastron. Then turtle plastron is yellow.

As one of the first sea turtle species studied, much of what is known about the ecology of sea turtles from studies of green turtles. Green sea turtles move in three habitat types, depending on their life. Adult turtles spend most of their time in shallow coastal prairies and detailed. Adults frequent bays, coastal lagoons and shoals with lush meadows. Green sea turtles typically swim at 2.5 to 3 km / h (1.6 to 1.9 mph). Only humans and larger sharks feed on C. Adults mydas. Specifically, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) hunt adults in Hawaiian waters. Green sea turtles migrate long distances between feeding and breeding, some swim more than 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) to reach the spawning grounds. Adult turtles often return to the exact beach where they were born.

The French Guiana nesting subpopulation nests from March to June. In the tropics, green turtles nest throughout the year, although some subpopulations prefer particular times of the year. In Pakistan, Indian Ocean turtles nest year round, but prefer the months from July to December. Green sea turtles mating is similar to other turtles. Female turtles control the process. Little is known of the early life history of sea turtles newborns. Young people from three to five years at sea spend, before becoming a young immature lifestyle permanent water surface. Each year, Ascension Island, South Atlantic, C. Women 6000-15000 Chelonia create nests. Historically, turtles and tanned skin used to make handbags, especially in Hawaii. Ancient Chinese considered the flesh of sea turtles culinary delicacies, including and especially C. Chelonia. In particular, in this species of turtle calipee, fat and cartilage are sought as ingredients for making turtle soup.

In Java, Indonesia, sea turtle eggs were a popular delicacy. In Bali, turtle meat was a prominent feature festivals and religious ceremonies. The turtles were taken in remote areas of the Indonesian archipelago. Bali has been importing sea turtles since 1950, when his supply runs Tortuga. Commercial companies such as Cayman Turtle Farm in the West Indies, once bred for commercial sale of turtle meat, turtle oil (fat-based), the turtle, the turtle and leather made from the skin . The companies held more than 100,000 turtles at any time. Inintially began as Mariculture Ltd., and the Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd. and then mark Nostromo beach, the trademark in 2010, the property was changed to Cayman Turtle Farm: Island Wildlife Encounter.

Sea turtles are an integral part of the history and culture of the Cayman Islands. When the islands were discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1503, named "Las Tortugas" because of the abundance of sea turtles in the waters around the islands. Many early visitors came to the Cayman Islands to capture turtles as a source of fresh meat during long journeys. A sea turtle stylized nickname "Sir Turtle" is the mascot of the national airline Cayman Airways and is part of the uniform of their aircraft.

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Burmese Python

 

Animal You | Burmese Python | Burmese Pythons are dark-colored snakes with many brown spots on limited black on the back. The perceived attractiveness of their skin pattern contributes to their popularity among reptile owners and leather industry. The model is similar in color, but differ in the current model of the African Rock Python (Python sebae), which leads to confusion of the two species outside their natural habitat sometimes. In the wild, Burmese pythons grow to 3.7 meters (12 feet) on average, while specimens of more than 4 meters (13 feet) rarely. The maximum record length for Burmese pythons will. There are dwarf forms of Java, Bali and Sulawesi. In Bali reach an average length of 2 meters (6.6 feet) and Sulawesi reach up to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet).

The Burmese python is found in South and Southeast Asia, including eastern India, Nepal, western Bhutan, Southeast Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Continental north, far south of China ( Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan), Hong Kong, and Indonesia in Java, South Sulawesi, Bali and Sumbawa. Burmese pythons are also reported Kinmen, close to the mainland of China, but Taiwan Burmese Python territory belongs to the Flora of Taiwan Taiwan, when referring to the Republic of China, but not in Taiwan. The python is an excellent swimmer and needs a permanent source of water. That in the meadows, marshes, swamps, rocky hills, forests, river valleys and forests with clearings are.

Burmese pythons are mostly inhabitants of the jungle. Burmese Pythons spend most of their time hidden in the underbrush. Burmese Pythons breed in the spring, while women are clutches. 12-36 eggs on average in March or April She will remain with the eggs until they hatch and wrapping his spasms of muscles in a way that increases the ambient temperature around the eggs by several degrees. All the giant pythons (including the Indian Python, the African Rock Python, and the reticulated python). Burmese Python IUCN has recently been classified as "endangered" what. Its population decline in general Important reasons for the decline are the fur trade and food, habitat destruction can be a problem in some mountain areas.

Hong Kong is a protected species under the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170 Burmese Pythons are often sold as pets, and became popular for its attractive color and apparently tolerant nature. A second problem with feeding Burmese pythons is that many owners believe if a snake acts hungry must be fed. As Burmese pythons are opportunistic investors, eat almost nothing to eat, if offered, and often act hungry even if they ate little. This often leads to overeating and obesity-related problems are common in captive Burmese pythons.

The colored Burmese python is frequently captive bred, pattern and size now. Breeders have recently begun, with a line of Burmese pythons Island. Initial reports indicate that these "dwarf" Burmese have slightly different coloring and pattern of their mainland relatives and grow no more than 2.1 meters (7 feet) long. The caramel Burmese python has caramel-colored pattern with "milk chocolate" eyes.

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Black Mamba

 

Animal You | Black Mamba | The adult black mamba back color olive, brown, gray or khaki times. A young snake is lighter, but not light enough to be confused with the different types of Green Mamba. The impression of the side rails inside the mouth is dark blue to black as ink. The eyes are dark brown to black, with a silvery white with a yellow border to students. These snakes are strong, but thin in the body: adult specimens are 2.5 to 3 meters (8.2 to 9.8 feet) long, on average, but samples measuring 3.1 to 3.75 m (10 to 12.3 feet) are relatively common, and some specimens have reached lengths of 4.3 to 4.5 meters (14-15 feet). The longest measured scientifically, was captured wild black mamba recorded 4.48 m (14.7 ft), located in Zimbabwe. Body slender yet powerful black mamba adult "can typically weigh 1.6 to 3.1 kg (3.5 to 6.8 lbs.)

Information about the life of snakes in nature is poor, the longer life expectancy registered a Black Mamba prisoner is 14, but the actual time may be much higher maximum. 23-25 scale rows are smooth midsection back subcaudals rarely (21 rows), 248-281 and 109-132 ventrals combined. temporal bone are variable, usually 2 +3 The black mamba has adapted to a variety of climates, from savannas , forests, farmlands, rocky hillsides, dense forests and swamps are wet. savanna grasslands and forests / bushes that stretches all the way from southern and eastern Europe, Central and Western, Eastern and Southern Africa, Black Mamba the typical habitat. often use Black Mambas abandoned termite mounds and trees hollows for shelter. abandoned termite mounds used particularly when the snake somewhere to cool off when the hill in a kind of "natural air conditioning" the research system.

Territorial As a species, but the Mamba Black is back in its territory or the nest undisturbed. This species is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v3.1, 2011). Black Mambas shows little deviation from the standard methods of communication and perception found in snakes. Like many snakes when they feel threatened, they attack with a series of signals to warn possible breed black mamba attack shown once a year. The breeding season begins in the spring, which occurs around the month of September in the regions of Africa where these snakes occur, so much of sub-Saharan Africa is in the southern hemisphere. During this period, males fight over females.

mating Beyond males and no-no females interact. Watching his friend, thoroughly inspect your forked tongue flicking around the body. Humans have two hemipenes. Following a long and successful copulation, the eggs develop in the female body for about 60 days. prefer women abandoned termite mounds as nests. elderly women lay 15-25 eggs , who hide very well and very aggressive protecting. Provide kittens are toxic as adults, but not bitten by a snake venom adult. poison subcutaneous LD values of these "species is very different. Train and Ernst et al. 1996, produced a value of 0.05 mg / kg, and fruit were Engelmann (1981), a value of 0.32 mg / kg, and the branch list Spawls as 0.28 mg / kg and gave a value of Brown 0.12 mg / kg. Although the variation is large, the average value of black mamba venom SC will have about 0.185 mg / kg, making it one of the most venomous snakes in the globe.

It is estimated that only 10 to 15 mg kill a grown man, and their bite provides about 100-120 mg of venom on average, the largest ever recorded was 400 mg of poisoning. British wildlife enthusiast Nathan Layton was in Hoedspruit, a small town near Kruger National Park, bitten by a black mamba and girl died after being bitten. The mortality rate depends on several factors such as the health, size, age and mental health of the victim, the penetration of one or both of the amount injected fangs snake venom, poison pharmacokinetics, the bite position and proximity to major blood vessels. At present, a polyvalent antivenom South African Institute for Medical Research (SAIMR) prepare to treat all Black Mamba bites of different places. Why is a poison bitten by a black mamba is no longer a certain death sentence. If bitten, often severe neurotoxicity. Local tissue damage appears to be relatively infrequent and low gravity in most cases of poisoning Black Mamba.

If you reject a threat, the black mamba offers multiple shots, the injection of large amounts of toxic virulent poison for each shot, often landing bites on the body or head, unlike other snakes. Death by suffocation due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Due to various factors, including toxicity and high yields of their venom, the fact that untreated bites a mortality rate of 100%, the high level of aggression, speed, agility and size, many herpetologists agree the Black Mamba is the deadliest snake species and aggressive world.

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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 other terrestrial vertebrates raise alligators. Alligators have the strongest bite in the laboratory of a living animal, measured up to 9452 Newton (2125 lbf) in laboratory conditions. Some alligators lack inhibited gene for melanin, which makes them albino. These alligators are extremely rare and almost impossible to find in nature. Alligators are found primarily in the southeastern United States, from Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina, south of Everglades National Park in Florida and west to southern Texas. Alligators live in swamps, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes. Females and young are also found in Carolina bays and other seasonal wetlands. While prefer freshwater, saltwater crocodiles, sometimes more.

A study of alligators in North Central Florida found that people preferred the open sea water in the spring, while females used water areas and wetlands and open. Plains, including the Everglades, through the construction of small ponds known as "alligator holes" These creating wetland habitats dryer or other organisms, such as plants, fish, invertabrates, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Alligators can. Alligators are less sensitive to cold than American alligators. Unlike the crocodile immediately succumb to cold and drown in water of 45 ° F (7.2 ° C), an alligator survive at such temperatures for some time without any sign of discomfort. It is believed that this adjustment of why American alligators spread farther north than the American Crocodile.

When water begins to freeze, alligators poke the muzzle, even if the surface, breathing through the ice sheets. Although alligators have no vocal cords, males below high to attract mates and warn other males during this time drawing air into the lungs and breathing deeply intermittent shades of roars. Alligators males are also known to use infrasound during their mating behavior. The nest of a female vegetation, sticks, leaves and mud building in a safe place or near water. having their eggs egg whites 20-50, set the size of a goose, copper them with more vegetation, which helps as it decomposes, which warms the eggs warm. This differs from Nile crocodiles, which lay their eggs in pits.The temperature, alligator eggs develop to determine their sex

Nests female dams become hotter and thus produce male nests while the cooler wet females funds. The guys are small replicas of adult alligators with a series of yellow bands around the body that serve as camouflage. Young alligators eat small fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects. They are also preyed upon by large fish, birds, alligators and adults Raccon. Mother alligators are finally more aggressive to their young, which promotes dissipate. Alligators young growing 8.3 (7.6 20 cm) of a year, and reach adulthood to 6 feet (1.8 m)

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Alligator Turtle

 

Animal You | Alligator Turtle | Freshwater turtle largest in North America, the alligator turtle is mainly found in the waters of the southeastern United States. They found from eastern Texas, east of the Florida peninsula, and from north to southeastern Kansas, Missouri, southeast Iowa, western Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky and eastern Tennessee. Normally, only the females nesting on open ground companies. You can immediately distinguish common snapping turtle with three rows of spikes and plates of different patterns in the shell, while the municipality has a hitch softshell turtles. The yellowpatterns jets around the eyes, serving to break up the outline of the eye and keep the turtle camouflaged.

There is an unconfirmed report of a 183 kg (400 pounds) alligator snapping turtle found in Kansas in 1937, but most verifiable questionable. A heavy Shedd Aquarium in Chicago was a giant 16-year-old resident alligator snapper weighing 113 kg (250 pounds), is sent to the Tennessee State Aquarium as part of a breeding loan in 1999, where he later died. Alligator turtles usually vary in length from 40.4 to 80.8 cm carapace (15.9 to 31.8 cm) and weighs 68-80 kg (150-180 pounds). Males are generally larger than females. An adult male cloaca extends beyond the edge of the carapace of a woman placed precisely on the edge if not closer plastron. Hunting for turtles lying motionless in the water with his mouth open. Vermiform tongue imitates the movements of a worm, lure prey to the turtle's mouth.

Contrary to assertions alligator snapping turtles are the second most powerful force an animal bite, was recorded at 158 ± 18 kg-force (1550 ± 180 N and 350 ± 40 lbf), which is smaller than many other species of turtles and about the same level as people. However, these turtles handled with great care Fishermen have glorified the ability of the "art of catching fish and deplete fish stocks. Although not a primary food source for them, adult Alligator Snappers have been known to kill and eat smaller alligators have been limited to such a network, a swamp, or poorly planned aquarium display. Maturity is reached at age 12. Alligator turtle is primarily vulnerable to humans from habitat loss and hunting. Some are hunted for their shells are plastron of the turtle prized for its cross. There are reports of large (+ £ 50) is accidentally caught turtles, both specific and recreational fishing lines called "trot lines." Abandoned trot lines are thought to be more dangerous for turtles.

This turtle is protected from collection in most of its range. IUCN lists it as a threatened species, and 14 Jun 2006, he was awarded some international protection classified as third species (CITES will limit exports in the U.S. and all international trade in this species). Alligator turtle is endangered in many states, including Indiana and Illinois. Illinois fishing snapping turtles is illegal and heavy fines.

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