Numbat

Beauty Of Animal | Numbat | Numbat is a marsupial carnivore, so distinctive. It is not closely related to any living marsupials (the one closest relatives are now extinct thylacine or Tasmanian tiger), did not have a pocket, and is one of only two marsupials to be active exclusively during the day. It is also the only marsupial to feed strictly on social insects: people suck about 20,000

Riverine Rabbit

Beauty Of Animal | Riverine Rabbit | This rabbit lives in one of the few areas of the Karoo Desert suitable for conversion to agriculture, and as a result has lost virtually all its habitat to farming. Less than 250 individuals survive, and all occur on privately owned land where they come under further pressure from hunting, trapping, and predation by feral dogs and cats. An extremely slow

African Wild Ass

Beauty Of Animal | African Wild Ass | The African wild ass is a hardy animal which is well adapted to desert life. It can sustain water loss of up to 30% of its body weight, and can drink enough water in two to five minutes to restore fluid loss. The species was domesticated about 6,000 years ago, and is mentioned frequently in the Bible. Domestic donkeys are now found all over the world, yet

Lemur

Beauty Of Animal | Lemur | Lemurs are primates native to the island of Madagascar, a large island of the south east coast of Africa. There are about 10 different species of lemurs inhabit the island where lemurs spend most of their time in trees. Lemurs are famous for their large, round eyes and reflective howling screams. Lemur also has a furry, pointy ears and a long tail, with lemurs are

Kudu

Beauty Of Animal | Kudu | The kudu is a sub-species of antelope are found inhabiting shrub mixed forest and savanna plains in eastern and southern Africa. Kudu is very dependent on the close, dense thicket where the kudu can escape to and hide when they feel threatened. There are two species of the African kudu kudu Lesser and greater kudu. These two species are closely related and have to

Coelacanth

Beauty Of Animal | Coelacanth | More closely related to tetrapods than stingrays, fish is considered to be transitional species between fish and tetrapods until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, from River Chalumna (now Tyolomnqa) in 1938. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local fisherman, Captain Hendrick

Chimpanzee

 Beauty Of Animal | Chimpanzee | The Chimpanzee is a species of ape that is natively found in a variety of different habitats in western and central Africa. There are two different species of Chimpanzee which are the Common Chimpanzee and the smaller Bonobo (also known as the Pygmy Chimpanzee) which has a limited distribution south of the Congo River. However, despite being highly adaptable and

Caiman Lizard

Beauty Of Animal | Caiman Lizard | The caiman lizard is a medium-sized lizards, natively found in the jungles of South America. The caiman lizard is strongly built and is one of the largest lizard species in the Americas. The caiman lizard is a large and powerfully built lizard known to grow up to 120 inches from his nose to the tip of the tail is there. Today there is only one type of lizard

Indian Rhinoceros

Beauty Of Animal | Indian Rhinoceros | The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is also called one-horned rhinoceros greater one-horned rhinoceros and Asian and belongs to the family Rhinocerotidae. . This species is also heavily built the second largest living rhinoceros, behind only the White Rhinoceros. Males average head and body length of 368-380 cm (12.07 to 12.5 ft) with a shoulder

Black Rhinoceros

 Beauty Of Animal | Black Rhinoceros | The name black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is chosen to distinguish this species from the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). This can be confusing, because the two species actually differ according to color. There are four subspecies of black rhino: South-central (Diceros bicornis minor), the most numerous, which once ranged from central Tanzania

White Rhinoceros

Beauty Of Animal | White Rhinoceros | The white or square-lipped rhinoceros rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of five species of rhinoceros that still exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhino includes two subspecies: the southern white rhino, with an estimated 17,460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 (IUCN 2008), and

Yeti Crab

Beauty Of Animal | Yeti Crab  | Yeti Crab  (Kiwa hirsuta) is a crustacean discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean. This decapod, which is approximately 15 cm (6 inches) long, is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws). Its discoverers dubbed it the "yeti lobster" or "yeti crab"


K. hirsuta was discovered in

Anteater

 Beauty Of Animal | Anteater | The anteater, also known as antbears are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (which means "language of the worm"), commonly known for eating ants and termites. Together with the sloths, they compose the order pilosa. The name "anteater" also applies to the relationship colloquially anteater, numbat, echidnas and pangolins.



Existing species

Black-Footed Ferret

 

Beauty Of Animal | Black-Footed Ferret | The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), also known as the polecat or prairie dog hunter of America is a kind of natural Mustelid to central North America. It was declared extinct in 1979 to Lucille Hogg's dog brought a dead black-footed ferret to your door in Meeteetse, Wyoming in 1981. That the remnant population of a dozen ferrets that lasted

Fur Seal

 

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Fur Seal | Fur seals are one of the nine species of pinnipeds Otariidae family. One
species, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) lives in the North
Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found
mainly in the southern hemisphere. They
are more akin to sea lions than true seals, and with them auricle
(atria), relatively long and muscular

Capybara

Beauty Of Animal | Capybara | The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the largest extant rodent in the world. Its closest relatives are agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs. Native to South America, the capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests, and lives near waters. It is a very gregarious species, and can in groups as large as 100 individuals are found, but usually live in

Aardvark

Beauty Of Animal | Aardvark | The aardvark  means "dig footed" and afer: from Africa) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known. The name comes from former Afrikaans means "earth pig" or "ground hog"  because of the grave of his life. The

Amami Rabbit

 Beauty Of Animal | Amami Rabbit | The Amami Rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi,. Amami, Amamino kuro usagi, lit "Amami black rabbit levels"), also known as the Ryukyu Rabbit, is a primitive dark-furred rabbit, which found only in Amami Oshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyushu and Okinawa in Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. Distribution, Habitat,

Ocelot

Beauty Of Animal | Ocelot | Twice as big as the average house cat, the ocelot is a sleek animal with a beautiful spotted fur. These largely nocturnal cats use keen sight and hearing to hunt rabbits, rodents, iguanas, fish and frogs. The ocelot ranges from 68 to 100 centimeters (27 to 39 in) in length, plus 26 to 45 cm long (10 to 18 in) in the tail and usually weighs 8-18 kg (18-40 lb), although

Ferret

Beauty Of Animal | Ferret | The ferret is a domesticated mammal of the type Mustela putorius furo. Ferrets are sexually dimorphic predators with males being substantially larger than females. Several other small, elongated carnivorous mammals belonging to the family Mustelidae (weasels) also have the word ferret in their common names, including an endangered species, the Black-footed Ferret.