Eagle-Golden

Beauty Of Animal | Eagle-Golden | The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas. Despite being extirpated from some its former range or uncommon, the species is still fairly

Bat-Short-Tailed Fruit

Beauty Of Animal | Bat-Short-Tailed Fruit | Seba's Short-tailed Bat, Carollia perspicillata, is a common and widespread bat species from South and Central America.

C. perspicillata dwells in both moist evergreen and dry deciduous forests, usually below 1,000 meters altitude, typically roosting in groups of 10-100 bats in caves, hollow trees, tunnels, and road culverts. It feeds on a least 50

Bat-Common Vampire

Beauty Of Animal | Bat-Common Vampire | Vampire bats tend to live in colonies in almost completely dark places, such as caves, old wells, hollow trees, and buildings. They range in Central to South America and live in arid to humid, tropical and sub tropical areas. Vampire bats live in colonies that can number in the thousands in roosting sites. The basic social structure of roosting bats is

Barracuda-Sphyraena Barracuda

Beauty Of Animal | Barracuda-Sphyraena Barracuda | The great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) is a species of barracuda. Great barracudas often grow over 6 feet (1.8 m) long and are a type of ray-finned fish.Barracudas are elongated fish with powerful jaws. The lower jaw of the large mouth guts out beyond the upper. Barracudas possess strong, fang-like teeth that are unequal in size and set in

Balloon fish-Tetraodontidae

Beauty Of Animal | balloon fish-Tetraodontidae | Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the Tetraodontiformes order. The family includes many familiar species which are variously called pufferfish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab. They are morphologically similar to the closely

Baiji-Chinese River Dolphin

Beauty Of Animal | Baiji-Chinese River Dolphin| The Baiji (Chinese: pinyin: About this sound báijìtún (help·info)) (Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") was a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed "Goddess of the Yangtze" (simplified Chinese:  traditional Chinese: pinyin: Cháng Jiāng nǚshén) in China, the dolphin was also

Baboon-Yellow-Papio Cynocephalus

Beauty Of Animal | Baboon-Yellow-Papio Cynocephalus | The yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.Cynocephalus literally means "dog-head" in Greek due to the shape of its muzzle and head. It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma baboon but is smaller and its muzzle is not as elongated. The hairless face

Baboon-Guinea

Beauty Of Animal | Baboon- Guinea | The Guinea baboon (Papio papio) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family. Some (older) classifications list only two species in the genus Papio, this one and the Hamadryas baboon. In those classifications, all other Papio species are considered subspecies of P. papio and the species is called the savanna baboon.

The Guinea baboon inhabits a small area in

Sea Waps (Box Jellyfish)

Beauty Of Animal | Sea Waps (Box Jellyfish) | Sea wasp or Box Jellyfish or Box Fish is the most poisonous sea creature than stone fish, sharks or sea snakes. Even it is a beautiful jelly, it has killed more people than other marine. Sea wasps are usually found in shallow waters. If you see sea waps at the sea, you are not allowed to do any water activites. They live in coastal waters from

Blue Button Jellyfish

Beauty Of Animal | Blue Button Jellyfish  | This sea creature is similar with Bluebottle Jellyfish/Portuguese Man of War and By-the-wind-sailor (velella velella). Actually, they are not true jellyfish, but they are colonies of polyps, or we know as Chondrophores. Blue button jellyfish live by floating on the surface of the sea. They range in Atlantic, Australia and Indo-Pasific. Blue button

By The Wind Sailor/Velella Velella

Beauty Of Animal | By The Wind Sailor/Velella Velella | This sea creature includes in Chondrophores. They are not true jellyfish, but the colony of polyps. By The Wind Sailor is similar like Bluebottle Jellyfish/Portuguese Man of War and Blue Button Jellyfish. They live in warm and temperate waters in all the world's oceans. They live with the float above the water, and polyps hanging down about

Nomura's Jellyfish

Beauty Of Animal | Nomura's Jellyfish | Nomura's jellyfish is an enormous jellyfish like Lion's Mane jellyfish. Nomura's Jellyfish also known as the Echizen kurage in Japan, is a large Japanese Jellyfish whose width is slightly larger than a height of a fully grown man. Nomura's jellyfish are more commonly found in the oceans near Korea and China. Scientists think they originate in the Yellow

Immortal Jellyfish

Beauty Of Animal | Immortal Jellyfish  | Immortal jellyfish is one of the most unique animals in the entire animal kingdom. It may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. It is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature. This jelly is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of

Baltimore Oriole

Beauty Of Animal | Baltimore Oriole | Adults have a pointed bill and white bars on the wings. The adult male is orange on the underparts, shoulder patch and rump with black everywhere else. The adult female is yellow-brown on the upper parts with darker wings, dull orange on the breast and belly. Their breeding habitat is the edges of deciduous and mixed woods across eastern North America. The

Inca Dove

Beauty Of Animal | Inca Dove  | Inca Doves (Columbina inca) are fairly common year-round residents here in southeastern Arizona, especially near our cities and towns. These small doves range from the southwestern United States down to parts of southern Costa Rica. Throughout their range, Inca Doves are most common in arid areas.
Occasionally see Inca Doves feeding on the ground with other doves

Juvenile Elf Owls

Beauty Of Animal | Juvenile Elf Owls | Most years, the Elf Owls (Micrathene whitneyi) nest in a huge, multi-armed Saguaro not too far from my yard. After the young Elf Owls leave the nest, their parents bring them over to spend their days in a dense, shady hedgerow along the edge of my yard, which is where I got this photograph of two of this year's four juvenile Elf Owls. Unfortunately, juvenile

Quoll

Beauty Of Animals | Quoll | Quolls or native cats (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adults are between 25 and 75 centimetres (30 in) long, with hairy tails about 20 to 35 centimetres (14 in) long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch which opens towards the tail only during the breeding season, when they are rearing young.

The Beauty Of Zebrafish - Danio Rerio

Beauty Of Animals | The Beauty Of Zebrafish - Danio Rerio | Zebrafish The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. It is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio, and is an important vertebrate model organism in scientific research. The fish is named for the five uniform, pigmented,

Nine-banded Armadillo-Dasypus Novemcinctus

Beauty Of Animal | Nine-banded Armadillo-Dasypus Novemcinctus| The Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), or the nine-banded long-nosed armadillo, is a species of armadillo found in North, Central, and South America, making it the most widespread of the armadillos. Its ancestors originated in South America and remained there until 3 million years ago when the formation of the Isthmus of

Pink Fairy Armadillo

Beauty Of Animal | Pink Fairy Armadillo |  The Pink Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) or Pichiciego is the smallest species of armadillo (mammals of the family Dasypodidae, mostly known for having a bony armor shell). It is approximately 90-115 mm (3?-4?") long excluding the tail, and is pale rose or pink in color. It is found in central Argentina where it inhabits dry grasslands and sandy

Parrot-Psittacines

Beauty Of Animal | Parrot-Psittacines | Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae ('true' parrots), the Cacatuidae (cockatoos) and the Strigopidae (New Zealand parrots). Parrots have a generally pantropical

Platypus-Ornithorhynchus Anatinus

Beauty Of Animals | Platypus-Ornithorhynchus Anatinus | The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It is the sole living representative of its family (

Vampire Bat

Beauty Of Animals | Vampire Bat  | Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus), the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat (Diphylla ecaudata), and the White-winged Vampire Bat (Diaemus youngi). All three species are native to the Americas, ranging from Mexico to Brazil,

Arapaima

Beauty Of Animals | Arapaima | The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is a South American tropical freshwater fish. It is a living fossil and one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world. Arapaima can reach lengths of more than 2 m (6.6 ft), in some exceptional cases even more than 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and over 100 kg (220 lbs).  The often cited maximum length of 4.5 m (14.8 ft) comes

Screaming Hairy Armadillo

Beauty Of Animal | Screaming Hairy Armadillo | The Screaming Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus) is a species of armadillo also known as the Small Screaming Armadillo, Crying Armadillo or the Small Hairy Armadillo. It is a burrowing armadillo found in the central and southern parts of South America. The adjective "screaming" derives from its habit of squealing when handled or threatened

Emperor Tamarin

Beauty Of Animal | Emperor Tamarin | The Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator) is a tamarin allegedly named for its similarity with the German emperor Wilhelm II. The name was first intended as a joke, but has become the official scientific name. This tamarin lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas.  The fur of the

Tuatara

Beauty Of Animal | Tuatara | The tuatara is a small to medium sized reptile, that is found only on a few small islands surrounding New Zealand. Although the tuatara was once found inhabiting mainland New Zealand in large numbers, today the tuatara is nearly extinct from the mainland. Despite the lizard-like appearance of the tuatara, the tuatara is actually only a very distant relative of the

Water Dragon

Beauty Of Animal | Water Dragon | The water dragon is a large species of lizard native to the forests and jungles of Asia and Australia. Water dragons are arboreal animals meaning that they spend most of their time in the trees, often close to a large body of water. There are two different species of water dragon, which are the Australian water dragon and the Asian water dragon. The Australian

Volcano Rabbit

Beauty Of Animal | Volcano Rabbit  | Rabbit that resides in the mountains of Mexico. It is the world's second smallest rabbit, second only to the Pygmy Rabbit. It has small rounded ears, short legs, and short, thick fur. The Volcano Rabbit lives in groups of 2 to 5 animals in burrows. Unlike many species of rabbits (and similar to pikas), the Volcano Rabbit utters very high-pitched sounds instead

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Beauty Of Animal | Oceanic Whitetip Shark  | The oceanic whitetip shark is a stocky and heavy set animal, up to 4 meters (13 feet) in length, with an enlarged first dorsal fin and large paddle like pectoral fins. The tips of the dorsal fins, caudal lobes and pectoral fins are mottled white on adults while juveniles may also have black marks. However the amount of pigmentation on the fin tips

Dusky Shark

Beauty Of Animal | Dusky Shark | The dusky shark has a long streamlined body that is brown or gray above and white below. There is a faint lateral stripe that extends to the pelvic fin. Juveniles have a dark colouration on the tip of the caudal fin and the underside of the pectoral fins that is less pronounced in adults. The first dorsal fin is much larger than the second with a dermal ridge

Sand Tiger Shark

Beauty Of Animal | Sand Tiger Shark | The sand tiger shark has a stout body with two large dorsal fins that are almost equal in size and the first dorsal fin placed far back on the trunk of the body. The tail has an elongated upper lobe and no caudal keel. This shark appears bronze from above but is increasingly paler below. Juveniles have reddish or yellow-brown spots on the tail and rear end of

Basking Shark

Beauty Of Animal | Basking Shark | The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is a huge filter feeding shark which grows to be up to about 33 feet (10 m) long. It is the second-largest shark (after the whale shark). The basking shark is also called the sunfish, the bone shark, the elephant shark, the sailfish shark, and the big mouth shark. This huge, bulky, filter-feeder is grayish brown to black

Angel Sharks

Beauty Of Animal | Angel Sharks | The Angelsharks are flat-bodied sharks, very ray-like. They bury themselves in the sand or mud with only the eyes and part of the top of the body exposed. They have a blunt snout and are camouflaged to blend into the sand and rocks of the ocean bed. They have long, wide fins that look like wings, giving it its name. It is also known as the monk shark, sand devil,

Golden Toad

Beauty Of Animal | Golden Toad |  The golden toad (Bufo periglenes) was a small, shiny, bright true toad that was once abundant in a small region of high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests, about 30 square kilometers in area, above the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. For this reason, it is sometimes also called the Monteverde golden toad, or the Monte Verde toad. Other common English names

Leopard Frog

Beauty Of Animal | Leopard Frog | Leopard frogs, also called meadow frogs, are the archetypal "grass frogs" of North America, a collection of about 14 species within the true frog genus Rana. They are generally very similar, green with prominent black spotting (though actually more like that of a cheetah than that of a leopard). They can be told apart by their distribution and certain rather

European Fire-bellied Toad

Beauty Of Animal | European Fire-bellied Toad |  The European Fire-bellied Toad Bombina bombina is a fire-bellied toad native to mainland Europe. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bombina bombina These toads are slightly toxic sometimes to humans. When they shed their skin, they bloat themselves and make a coughing sound, then start to tear the old skin off with their mouth, and eat it for

Poison Dart Frog

Beauty Of Animal | Poison Dart Frog | Poison dart frog (also dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to Central and South America. Unlike most frogs, these species are active during the day and often have brightly-colored bodies. Although all wild dendrobatids are at least somewhat toxic,

Allen's Chipmunk

Beauty Of Animal | Allen's Chipmunk |  Allen’s Chipmunk hibernates from November to mid-March. Before hibernation it gains an average of 20 percent of its body weight, depositing layers of fat under the skin and around internal organs. In contrast to other chipmunks, Allen’s is a heavy fungus feeder, but it also eats, in much lower amounts, insects and some vegetative material. This chipmunk was

Merriam's Chipmunk

Beauty Of Animal | Merriam's Chipmunk  | Merriam's chipmunks (Tamias merriami) are distributed throughout central and southern California. In particular, they occurs below 2700 m in the South Coast, Transverse, Peninsular, and Southern Sierra Nevada ranges. (Harvey and Polite, 1999) Merriam's chipmunks occur in habitats that have trees, shrubs, logs, stumps, snags, rocks, and litter. An important

Tree Frog

Beauty Of Animal | Tree frog | A tree frog is any frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state. Two lineages of frogs among the Neobatrachia have given rise to tree frogs even though they are not closely related to each other. Many millions of years of convergent evolution, resulting in almost identical habitats and ecologies between the two families, have

Mountain Zebra

Beauty Of Animal | Mountain Zebra | The Mountain Zebra, Equus zebra, is a threatened species of equid native to south-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa. It has two subspecies, the Cape Mountain Zebra (E. z. zebra) and Hartmann's Mountain Zebra (E. z. hartmannae), though it has been suggested these should be considered separate species. In 2004, C.P. Groves and C.H. Bell investigated the

Plains Zebra

Beauty Of Animal | Plains Zebra | The plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchelli), also known as the common zebra or Burchell's zebra, is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Angola and eastern South Africa. The plains zebra remains common in game reserves, but is threatened by human

Grévy's Zebra

Beauty Of Animal | Grévy's Zebra  | The Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the Imperial zebra, is the largest extant wild equid and one of three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after Jules Grévy, it is the sole extant member of the subgenus Dolichohippus. The Grévy's zebra occurs in Kenya and Ethiopia. Compared with other zebras, it is

Royal Gramma - Beautifully colored Fish

Beauty Of Animal | Royal Gramma - Beautifully colored Fish |  The Royal Gramma is a beautifully colored fish. The front half of the fish is a deep purple that fades into a bright yellow in the middle of the fish. It has a black line that streaks through the eye. This fish should not be confused with the Bi-color Pseudochromis, which has a similar color pattern.
The Royal Gramma is found in the

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Beauty Of Animal | Threadfin Butterflyfish |  The Threadfin Butterflyfish is white with chevron-shaped markings on the body and a long trailing filament from the dorsal fin of adults. The rear of the body and tail is yellow. There is a black spot at the rear of the dorsal fin and adults have a broad vertical black band through the eye. Size length to 23cm

Habitat coral reefs, weedy areas, rubble

Parrot Fish

Beauty Of Animal | Parrot Fish | The Parrot Fish Family has about 80 species that inhabit tropical waters around the World. The above photo from Flying Fish Express is what some people call a Princess Parrot, Scarus taeniopterus. The photo from Brian Tissot's Marine Fishes of Hawai'i site is a Bullethead Parrot, Scarus sordidus.  Parrot Fishes get their names from the fact that the teeth of both

Picasso Triggerfish

Beauty Of Animal | Picasso Triggerfish | Both the Rhinecantus aculeatus and rectangulus bear this famous long Hawaiian name. Roughly translated this name means "fish with a pig-nosed face". In short, this and most all other Triggerfishes worldwide are referred to commonly as Humu-Humu's, and sometimes incorrectly as Huma-Huma's, but these names do not actually identify an individual species one

Redhead Fairy Wrasse

Beauty Of Animal | Redhead Fairy Wrasse  | Once a rare sensation, this species has become relatively common in reef aquariums in recent years. The colors of this species are highly variable. The large males are brilliantly hued, sometimes appearing with a rich-orange body and scarlet face and head. Females and small males, with duller coloration, are most common in the aquarium trade but will

Cinnamon Rabbit

Beauty Of Animal | Cinnamon Rabbit| The Cinnamon rabbit was created actually by accident. During the Easter season of 1962 2 kids by the name of Belle and Fred Houseman of Missoula, Montana were given a young Chinchilla doe. Later they received a New Zealand buck. They crossbred these two for babies that their father, Ellis, believed should be used for meat, but young Belle begged her father to

Chinchilla

Beauty Of Animal | Chinchilla  | The chinchilla rabbit was originally bred to be a meat rabbit that often weighs in at over 10 lbs.  They are good breeders and produce an average of between seven and ten babies per litter.  They are shorter and stockier than some of the other breeds and have a very nice rounded back that produces longer tenderloins.  Chinchilla rabbits do not require regular

English Angora

 Beauty Of Animal | English Angora | The English Angora is a medium size rabbit that looks like a ball of fluff, literally. The only area where the fur is short is above the nose. The rest of the rabbit, including the ears and legs, is covered with long dense hair. This thick coat needs to be groomed twice a week if it has correct texture, and daily if it has cottony texture. The English Angora

Blanc de Hotot

Beauty Of Animal | Blanc de Hotot | The Blanc de Hotot is a large rabbit with frosty white coat and black rings around the dark eyes. The medium length body appears strong and muscular. The erect ears are carried in a V-shaped manner. The hindquarters are deep, full and well-rounded. The topline rises slightly from the neck to the hindquarters. The eyes are brown. The eyelashes are black. The

Checkered Giant

Beauty Of Animal | Checkered Giant | The Checkered Giant is a large rabbit with a very distinct coat pattern unique to the breed. The colour markings include a butterfly-shaped marking on the nose, a circle around each eye, a spot on each cheek, coloured ears, and a straight line down the spine and the top of the tail. Besides, each side of the body has two large colour spots. These colour

Cashmere Lop

Beauty Of Animal | Cashmere Lop | The ideal age for the female Cashmere Lop rabbit to start breeding is between 5 to 6 months of age. The first litter must be born before the female is one year old. The reason for this is that after this age the pelvic bones fuse and she would not be able to give birth naturally. They should have no more litters after the age of three years. The mainstay of a

Persian Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Persian Cat  | The beautiful Persian has a long and distinguished history and has appeared in cat shows for over 100 years. It is currently the most popular breed registered in Australia. Famous for their placid, gentle temperament, Persians are quiet and affectionate and have an ability to adapt to any environment. However, they do not appreciate being teased or having their

Exotic Shorthair Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Exotic Shorthair  Cat  |  For those who adore the drop-dead good looks and movie star appeal of the Persian, but haven't the time for all that grooming, then the 'shorthaired Persian' - or Exotic Shorthair` as this breed is officially known - is just the cat for you! The same big round eyes, small ears, flat face with short snub nose, and sweet facial expression that remind us

Domestic Shorthair Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Domestic Shorthair  Cat  |  Australia's most popular cat, Amongst all the many varieties of cats available as household pets, there's no doubt which one reigns supreme in the popularity department - the Domestic - also known as the moggie! This basic, no frills feline with its unsophisticated charm has been part of our lives for as far back as we can remember. Most of us grew

Cornish Rex Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Cornish Rex  Cat | A Cornish Rex is a breed of domestic cat. The Cornish Rex has no hair except for down. Most breeds of cat have three different types of hair in their coats: the outer fur or "guard hairs", which is about 5 cm long in shorthairs and 10cm+ long in longhairs; a middle layer called the "awn hair"; and the down hair or undercoat, which is very fine and about 1 cm

Chinchilla Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Chinchilla Cat  | The Chinchilla is a separate colour classification of the Persian or Longhair. It has a silvery looking coat, with the characteristic sparkle coming from the black or silver tips on the luxurious white hair. Kittens are born almost black with heavy tabby markings, which disappear as they get older, making way for the pure white coat colour. Chinchilla's eyes

British Shorthair Cat

 Beauty Of Animal | British Shorthair Cat  | The British Shorthair has a rags to riches history. Descended from the cats introduced into England during the Roman times the breed had centuries of "living rough" alongside man rather than with him which produced a line of strong, self-sufficient, hardy cats. Nineteenth century author and artist, Harrison Weir, so admired these cats' natural

Birman Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Birman Cat | The Birman, or sacred Cat of Burma, is a strikingly beautiful and unusual breed. It has a pale coloured body, dark face, ears, tail and legs, a semi-long coat and white "gloves" on its paws. Its eyes are a beautiful, deep sapphire-blue. A famous legend is the only explanation we have for their colouring: one hundred pure white cats lived in the Burmese temple of

Balinese Cat - Cat From Indonesia

Beauty Of Animal | Balinese Cat   |  The Balinese ( cat from bali indonesia ) "The "Balinese" is not actually from Bali or any part of Indonesia. It is not a natural occurring breed, but originates from human-controlled breeding efforts. The Balinese was originally registered as a "long-haired Siamese", and examples were known from the early 1920s. The occasional long-haired kittens in a Siamese

Abyssinian Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Abyssinian Cat   | In looks, the 'Aby' (as it is affectionately known in the cat world) is similar to drawings of Ancient Egyptian cats and there are some who believe it orginated in the Nile Valley, however there continues to be speculation and controversy concerning its history. There is no doubt, however, that it is one of the oldest short-haired breeds. The name is not

Spider Monkey

Beauty Of Animal | Spider Monkey  |  Very few mammals are as superbly adapted to life in the trees as the spider monkey. Spider monkeys have long arms and legs for swinging around in the upper canopies of rain forests, which is where they spend almost all of their time. In addition, spider monkeys have long prehensile tails, which means they can wrap them around branches to serve as a fifth limb.

The Beauty Ocelot

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Ocelot  | Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis, formerly Felis pardalis) are found here in Pima County, Arizona, but they are very rare and endangered. Even where they are more common, Ocelots are not often seen because they are extremely shy, mainly nocturnal, and usually found in areas of dense cover. Since I am unlikely to ever see one of these beautiful cats in the wild

The Beauty Mountain Lion

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Mountain Lion | Mountain Lions or Pumas (Puma Concolor) are found around the edges of Tucson, Arizona, usually in foothill canyons or rocky hillside areas with plenty of deer (their favorite prey) and hiding places in the rocks and brush. Mountain Lions usually avoid humans, which is fortunate because these large top predators can be dangerous. Mountain Lions

Cliff Chipmunk-Neotamias Dorsalis

Beauty Of Animal | Cliff Chipmunk-Neotamias Dorsalis | The cliff chipmunk "Neotamias dorsalis", is common in many types of habitat, ranging from saltbrush to pine forests, in western, central, and northeastern Utah. The species also occurs in parts of Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. The cliff chipmunk is primarily a ground-dwelling species, but individuals will

The Beauty Gray-collared Chipmunk

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Gray-collared Chipmunk  | Description Dark, grayish, with paler gray neck and shoulders. Prominently gray cheeks, upper back, and shoulders are unique among chipmunks. 5 well-defined black or brown stripes and 4 pale stripes usually present on back; outer stripes may be hard to discern. L 8 1/4–9 7/8" (208–250 mm); T 3 1/8–4 1/2" (80–115 mm); HF 1 1/4–1 3/8" (32–36

The Beauty Yellow-pine Chipmunk

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty  Yellow-pine Chipmunk | In open forests where the sun casts sharp shadows, the well-defined stripes of the Yellow-pine Chipmunk afford protective coloration. Individuals of this species that were observed in Washington State remained active about seven months and hibernated about five, waking to eat about every two weeks and emerging in April and May. One study

The Beauty Shoebill

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Shoebill |  The Shoebill, Balaeniceps rex also known as Whalehead is a very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill. The Shoebill is a very large bird, averaging 1.2 m (4 ft) tall, 5.6 kg (12.3 lbs) and 2.33 m (7.7 ft) across the wings. The adult is mainly grey, the juveniles are browner. It lives in tropical east

Pygmy Marmoset-Dwarf Monkey

Beauty Of Animal | Pygmy Marmoset-Dwarf Monkey |  The Pygmy Marmoset (Callithrix (Cebuella) pygmaea) is a monkey native to the rainforest canopies of western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru. It is one of the smallest primates, with its body length ranging from 14-16 cm (excluding the 15-20 cm tail) and the smallest monkey. Males weigh around 140 g (5 ounces), and

The Beauty Frill-necked Lizard

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Frill-necked Lizard |  The Frill-necked Lizard, or Frilled Lizard also known as the Frilled Dragon, (Chlamydosaurus kingii) is so called because of the large ruff of skin which usually lies folded back against its head and neck. The neck frill is supported by long spines of cartilage, and when the lizard is frightened, it gapes its mouth showing a bright pink or

The Beauty Aye-Aye

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Aye-Aye |  The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the

The Beauty Tarsier

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty Tarsier | Tarsiers are prosimian primates of the genus Tarsius, a monotypic genus in the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. The phylogenetic position of extant tarsiers within the order Primates has been debated for much of the past century, and tarsiers have alternately been classified with strepsirrhine

The Beauty White-faced Saki Monkey

Beauty Of Animal | The Beauty White-faced Saki Monkey | The white-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia), also known as the Guianan saki and the golden-faced saki, is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. This species lives in the understory and lower canopy of the forest, feeding mostly on fruits, but also eating nuts,