The Komodo dragon also known as the komodo monitor. The scientific classification is kingdom:animalia,Phylum:chordate,suborder:lacertilia,Family:varanidae:Genus:varanus,Subgenu : v.(varanus),Species:komodoensis. The Komodo dragon is found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, which is all away by china. The name Komodo dragon is referred to as ora, (land crocodile) because there on land more than they are in water . Komodo dragons are carnivores the eat just about anything living occasionally they consume humans and human’s corps by digging up shallow graves from grave sites in the area.Baby Komodo dragons eat small insects an other small animals. Komodo dragons can swallow a dear in 20-25 minutes.it eats 80% of its body weight in one meal. Komodo dragons can live on as little as 12 meals a year because of their slow metabolism. Mating occurs between April and August with eggs layed around September. During this period males fight other males for territory or for females, the loser has to find new area or a new mate once defeated. The Komodo dragon defecates or vomits befor a fight when preparing to battle the other Komodo dragon. Females lay eggs in burrows in the side of a hill or in abandon nesting mounds. Females lay about 20 eggs at one time and have an a period of 7 to 8 months for the komodo dragons in the eggs to get ready an develop. Baby Komodo dragons spend most of the time in the trees so they are protected and safe from other Komodo Dragons. Baby Komodo dragons take approximately 3 to 5 years to mature and can live up to 50 years or so.There are around 3000 to 5000 Komodo Dragons in the wild to day. The Komodo dragon is an endangered species .Komodo dragons have been zoo attr...
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... . The Komodo dragons have the smallest range of all of the large carnivores because people hunted them for their skin. The government of Indonesia protects most of the Komodo dragons range in komodo National Park. Komodo National Park was created in 1980 and consists of 670 square miles of land and marine animals. Not all of the Komodo Dragons live on Komodo National Park there are a few areas outside of the park with little or no protection. The Exploration of the Komodo National Park is allowed only by the president of Indonesia and have been designing new ideals for more komodo dragons habitats. The Komodo dragons are also protected by the Endangered Species Act, Listed on the Appendix 1. An also Komodo dragons get up to 80% of their water needs from their food from the animals it eats this is helpful in times of low water or droughts which could last for months.
The book Michael Vey: Hunt For Jade Dragon by Richard Paul Evans is about a group of teengers the call themselves The Electroclan. Most of the teens in that group have special powers from a machine that was in use in the hospital that they were all born at. Other teens in the group are friends of members of The Electroclan. A girl named Jade Dragon figured out how to make more electric children, so Hatch wants to hunt her down. The Electroclan’s mission is to rescue Jade Dragon so Hatch doesn’t make an army of electric youth's. The Elgen then attack and capture the Electroclan in their hotel. It seems as if Nichelle sold them out to the Elgen, but she didn’t, she actually helped them. When Michael is captured by the Elgen Tara, Taylor’s twin sister thats works with Hatch, disgued
Koalas are arboreal mammals, meaning that they live in trees. They live in eucalyptus trees and feed on their leaves, which are poisonous to most animals. A koala’s home is decided by two main factors: the presence of other koalas and eucalyptus trees. They can eat other tree leaves, but that usually occurs only when eucalyptus leaves are absent (Crawford n.d.).
The environment that the Kwakiutl lived in is a temperate rain forest biome and is regulated by the Japan cur...
U.S. Department of the interior, National Park Service. (2013). Endangered Species. Retrieved from website: http://www.nature.nps.gov/biology/endangeredspecies/index.cfm
Although it may seem quite absurd, the role of animals in The Eyes of the Dragon is a very supreme and dignified part of the novel. Through the development of the novel, the animal kingdom roars novel from insects to dogs and they all play their own, individual roles. The great black and white Anduan Husky named Frisky who is, out of all of her dogs, Naomi's favorite, leads Ben Staad and Naomi directly to the whereabouts of Dennis, Peter's butler.
to rapid changes in their environment, which has caused it to become a National Park to prevent
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With a population of less than 10,000 the red panda is listed vulnerable on the endangered species list. “The red panda has small cat like features but markings like a panda or a raccoon (Bearlife). “The red panda lives in Asia its habitat ranges include central China, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bhutan (Bearlife).”Reasoning for red pandas becoming endangered is habitat destruction. “Once living in many parts of Asia, the red panda is now confined to parceled territories that collectively are a fraction of its original habitat (Bearlife).” The red panda is a beautiful and magnificent creature. But sadly it is dying off that is good reasoning for humans to take matters into their own hands by making the Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung Red Panda protected forest.
Some may see The Doors front man and offbeat poet extraordinaire Jim Morrison as the epitome of American culture, while countless others may see him as the complete antithesis. Rising to fame as American involvement in the Vietnam War reached a pinnacle, Morrison’s acclaim grew in a time of great American turmoil. The war in Vietnam was held as an issue of high controversy amongst many Americans. Many saw our involvement as utter ludicrousness and did not comprehend the need to send U.S. troops overseas to fight a war they had nothing to do with. As a result, certain Americans began both directly and indirectly rebelling against the beliefs and norms of the time, and thus, the counterculture movement was born. Jim Morrison became an icon of this rebellious revolution against a confused American government.
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It is said that in order to protect the wildlife, we need to be educated about the wildlife that inhabits our planet. As humans, and the superior species on Earth, we put exotic animals, aquatic and terrestrial, in zoos or aquariums where people can go to see them to learn more about them in order to protect them. It just so happens that by putting these animals into captivity, we are causing more damage to them, just as damage is occurring in the wild and more species are becoming extinct. Animals should not be held in captivity; it does not save them from going extinct, but helps kill them off.
The Genus Varanus komodoensis, or more commonly known as the Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard on Earth. The Komodo dragon belongs to the class reptilian and the phylum Chordata. They are a species of Monitor Lizard that have been isolated for millions of years on the islands in Indonesian Archipelago and were not discovered until the First World War (Diamond, 1994).