Showing posts with label Mammals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mammals. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Tasmanian Devil


 

Beauty Of Animal | Tasmanian Devil | As funny as it was, the familiar Looney Tunes portrayal of a Tasmanian devil, gurgling growl, insatiable lunatic is, at times, not all that far from the truth. Tasmanian devils have known cantankerous disposition and will fly into mad mad when threatened by a predator, fighting for a mate, or defending a meal. The early European settlers dubbed the "devil"

Monday, December 3, 2012

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

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Cougar




Beauty Of Animal | Cougar |  Cougar is a Native American, particularly South America and western North America, and is often known by other names such as mountain lions, pumas and panthers. Cougars can be found mainly in the mountainous regions of Canada and Mexico, but as the name cougar is often used to describe an un-spotted leopards, cougars are also found in Asia and Africa. The cougar is

Puma




Beauty Of Animal | Puma | Classification and Evolution, Puma is the Cat, the great secret is mainly found in the mountains south of Canada to the tip of South America. Also known as the Cougar and Lion Mountain, Pumas can reach larger sizes than some 'big' cat people but despite their large size is believed to be more closely related to species of small cats. Because of wide distribution,

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Opossum




Beauty Of Animal | Opossum | Opossum is a medium sized animal found inhabiting farmland and wooded areas in North America. Opossum is thought to have evolved from the basic marsupials that live in the forests of South America. Opossum is often referred to as possums, although there is no direct relationship between the possums of Australia and American opossum. Opossum is the only species of

Monday, September 3, 2012

Badger

Beauty Of Animal | Badger | Badgers are found living in the forests of Europe and western Asia, scavenging for roots and fruits as well as worms and insects. Remarkably badger can run up to 30 miles per hour for short periods of time and have been known to successfully fight large mammals such as wolves, coyotes and bears! There have been occasional reports over the years of badgers are very

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Elephant Shrew


Beauty Of Animal | Elephant Shrew | Elephant shrew is a small mammal found exclusively in Africa. Elephant shrew is also known as the jumping shrew, because rats can jump like a rabbit elephants use their long legs back. Mice elephants can be found inhabiting forests, woods, meadows and dense forests throughout Africa. There are nearly 20 different species of elephant shrew, all of which vary in

Fossa

Beauty Of Animal | Fossa | Fossa is a medium-sized carnivores are found exclusively on the island of Madagascar. Fossa belongs to which group of Malagasy carnivores are thought to have descended from Mongoose-like ancestors arrived in Madagascar from Africa and 24 million years ago. Fossa is not only one of the most ancient of the eight species found on the island but also the largest, meaning

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Alpaca







Beauty Of Animal |  Alpaca | Alpaca (Backus vicugna) is a domesticated species of South American camelid. They resemble small llamas in appearance.Are kept in herds of alpaca, which feed on the heights of the Andes level of southern Peru and Bolivia in the north of Ecuador and northern Chile at an altitude of 3500 meters (11500 feet) to 5,000 meters (16000 feet) above sea level, throughout

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Beaver






Beauty Of Animal | Beaver | The beavers (genus Castor) is a predominantly nocturnal, large, semi-aquatic rodents. Castor comprises two species of North American beaver (Castor canadensis) (native to North America) and the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) (Eurasia). Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges (homes). They are the second largest rodent in the world (after the

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Gelada





Beauty Of Animal | Gelada | The
gelada (Theropithecus Gelada), also called the Gelada Baboon, is a
species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian highlands, with
large populations in the Semien Mountains. Theropithecus is derived from the Greek root words for "beast-ape." Like
its close relatives the baboons (genus Papio), the largely terrestrial,
spending much of his time

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Elk









Beauty Of Animal | Elk | The
elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer
in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and
East Asia. It
was long believed to be a subspecies of the European red deer (Cervus
elaphus), but evidence from a 2004 study of the mitochondrial DNA
indicates that the two are different species.

 

This animal

Thursday, February 16, 2012

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

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Dama Wallaby

Beauty Of Animal | Dama Wallaby | Dama Wallaby, There are many different kinds of kangaroos, but the Dama wallaby are just a little different than the rest, you are mostly nocturnal animals in the wild, but they do fill up food and sun during the day. They have small front feet with five digits with sharp claws. Their hind legs are very powerful and very much larger. Their hind legs have four

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ring-Tailed Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Ring-Tailed Cat | The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family (not really a cat), native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat or miner's cat, and is sometimes mistakenly called "civet cat" (according to similar, though unrelated, like a cat, omnivore of Asia and Africa) called. . Scientific name: