Kinkajou You are taking an evening walk through a forest in southern Mexico and you spot something in the trees. Is it a bird? Is it a lemur? No, it’s a kinkajou! You see it leaping thorough the branches of the canopy above you. The kinkajous body is less than 24 inches long, while their tail adds another 16-22 inches. Their fur is thick and it comes in two colors which are either reddish brown or yellowish brown. The kinkajou’s tail has a black tip at the end of it. Their tails play an important part in their lifestyle because it helps them hang upside down and get a good grasp on things. The kinkajou can climb up their own tail like a rope. Their 2 big eyes help them see throughout the night because they are nocturnal animals. Kinkajous have sharp claws on their hands and feet. Their feet are very flexible when they have to jump or quickly run away from their predators. Kinkajous live in forest areas in southern Mexico, Central America, and South America. Forests are a good environment for the kinkajous because they rarely leave the trees. Another reason that forests are a good environment for them is because kinkajous can find their food and needs easily. The kinkajou’s diet consists mainly of fruits. Their main fruit that they eat are figs, but they do eat other foods such as flowers, leaves, and some herbs depending on the season. Kinkajous …show more content…
During the night, when they are awake, their daily lifestyle includes search for food and protecting their home. One interesting fact about the kinkajous is that their scientific name is Potus Flavus which means “golden drinker” because they drink nectar. Kinkajou’s eat flowers, but stick their tongue in the flowers to get all the nectar. Another interesting fact about kinkajous are that they can turn their feet backwards to walk up a tree or run away from a predator. They can run backwards just by turning their feet
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.).
They have small heads and body’s with a long lumbar region and narrow chest. Saki’s are arboreal quadrupeds with their arms and legs equal in length. They have a long olecranon process to be able to lock their joints so that their limbs can hold equal weight. White-Faced Sakis have long prehensile tails and long phalanges on their hands and feet for better travel and balance in the trees. A Saki’s dental formula is 2.1.3.3 with triangular molars meaning they are insectivores. They are also known as "flying monkeys" because they are able to leap 30 feet between tree branches. I already knew they could leap so I was hoping to see that when I observed it, but it was resting when I was there. They are sexually dimorphic due to color. White-Faced Sakis are vulnerable to being
At the beginning of this semester we focused on hermeneutics and the reader’s personal interpretations and biases when reading a text. The Protestant bias is one bias that anyone who grows up in a western culture is likely to have. A protestant bias is a bias one can have regardless if they are actually a protestant. A protestant bias is a bias comes from the fact that the majority of westerners are most familiar with and base their assumptions about scripture on one particular scripture -- the Christian Bible.
It grows during summer in the late tropical months during February and March. The seeds of these grasses are harvested by ants and are an important food source for birds such as finches. Kapok Bush, is a small native tree which has the most beautiful flowers and appears only during the dry season. These flowers further turns into green capsules, harden and then turns brown and spilt open to release a cotton wool like structure called kapkok. Kakadu National Park supports a great array of diverse environment. Kakadu is a habitat for more than 200 species of birds, 117 species of reptiles, 25 frog species, and 10000 species of insects. 53 species of freshwater species has also been recorded out of which eight of them have a restricted distribution. Partridge Pigeon, Brolga and Magpie Goose and Comb- Crested Jacana form the bird species in kakadu national park. Water birds include a large population of magpie geese, green pygmy geese, black-necked stork, Australian pelicans and many others. Among the insect group includes butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, dragonflies, damselflies, Cadel flies, beetles, termites and grasshoppers. The most striking created insect creature found
There is a recurring character that appears in many Native cultures, this character can be described as the trickster. The trickster serves a very important purpose in all the Native cultures, and that purpose is as a teacher. The trickster teaches the people of the tribe to live in harmony with the all things.
Kauikeaouli was hesitant to establish the Christian ten commandments because he was unsure whether his people wanted Christian Laws.
They are incredibly strong and powerful with long, thick bodies, short, muscular legs and an almighty tail that is used for both fighting and for propping the animal up when it is standing on it's hind legs. The Komodo Dragon has long and sharp, curved claws that are often used for digging and it's greyish brown skin is covered in small scales and folds around the neck. Komodo Dragons have relatively small heads compared to their large body size and wide, powerful jaws that conceal a mouth that is filled with deadly bacteria. Although the Komodo Dragon has good eyesight, the majority of it's surroundings are sensed to smell which the Komodo Dragon does with it's long and deeply forked tough. By flicking it's tongue out of it's mouth, the Komodo Dragon is able to "taste" scent particles in the air to locate both live and dead prey up to 8km
Towering trees surround you. Lemurs leaping between them to escape their predator, the fossa. Flowers everywhere. Endemic species call this place home. Where you may ask is this amazing place? Madagascar. The animals that live there are some of the most amazing creatures on Earth and they need our help.
they also live in other types of forests in Madagascar. Lemurs can only be found living in
Have you ever imagined climbing on the roof? Have you ever imagined walking straight up a wall? Well if you have your dream may not be so far away with the new technology that was discovered by Gecko’s. The new technology really isn’t all that new, it was just recently discover by the human race, so therefore we consider it new, but really it has been around for millions of years. The secret to the gecko's ability to climb walls is really complex, it starts down at the molecular level, with what they call a spatula it is a nanohair that is roughly 200 nanometers wide, and tall (Robert Full 2000). The spatula is so small you cannot see it with the naked eye, but it creates a relatively strong force for it size, and that’s what keeps it climbing on the wall, and ceilings. The force that is created is a reality weak force, but because this force is so small a Gecko’s foot has hundreds of millions of these spatulas, and because of the millions of these hairs it creates a force equal too 4x107 μn which is roughly 40N per foot (Robert Full 2000). Given that seems like a minuscule amount but that is per foot that is only 100mm2 (Robert Full 2000). Think about if that only for a 100mm2 and a human foot that’s roughly 10000 mm2 that’s hundred times the force per foot that a gecko foot, so you would be producing 4000N per foot (Robert Full 2000).
What is Kwanzaa? Kwanzaa is a nonreligious cultural holiday that celebrates African American Heritage. It is observed from December 26th through January 1st (Pogue, 2017). It was created by Maulana Karenga in the late 1960’s. Karenga is a black activist leader and professor. He has been making strides to better the black community and bridge the gap. He created Kwanzaa during the civil rights movement right after the Watts Riots in Los Angeles. He got tired of seeing all the horrible things happen to black people during this time, so he created Kwanzaa to shed a positive light on the black community. The goal of this holiday was to bring the African American community together. He wanted the African and African American community to have something
Several kinds of baboons live in Africa and southwestern Arabia. These include the hamadryas baboon, which lives on plains and rocky hills of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and eastern Africa near the Red Sea, and the chacma baboon, which inhabits rocky regions and open woodlands in southern Africa. Olive baboons inhabit the Kekopey cattle ranch located near the town of Gilgil, Kenya. “The central part of the ranch consists of open grassland studded with occasional patches of bushy shrub, scattered thornbush, and small groves of giant fever trees” (Smuts 17). They eat a wide variety of foods including insects, flowers, leaves, fruits of bushes and herbs, and most significant of all, the grass itself. “Baboons eat the green blades of grass during the rainy seasons and dig for corms-the underground storage organ of sedge grasses-when the ranch is dry” (Smuts 17-18). They can carry food in pouches inside their cheeks.
Sikes, Roberts. and William L. Gannon. "Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research." Journal of Mammalogy 92.1 (Feb. 2011): 235-253. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2011.
The world we live in today is full of an exceptional variety of animals. The time it took to conclude to the various sorts of species seen today has been throughout a period of millions of years. The vast majority of these animals are accredited to evolutionary advancements. When the environment changes, organisms have become accustomed to changing to fit their environment, to ensure their species does not die off. These physical changes have resulted in different phyla, ranging from basic structures, like sponges to advance systems, like that of an octopus.
Although it is a rather inaccessible language, Japanese enjoy a great appreciation among connoisseurs. Once mastered by the speaker, all your efforts are highly rewarded. The writing Japanese language uses three alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.