The Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) known as a South American cat. The name ocelot comes from the Nahuatl word ōcēlōtl. They are also called the Painted Leopard. They are found in South America including the islands of Trinidad and Margarita, Central America, Mexico, and reported in Texas. They are endangered species in the Texas, known to be fewer than 100 in the state. There are 800,000 to 1.5 million found worldwide. Ocelots can live for 20 years but in the wild they live for 7-10 years. They live in South America rain forest, desserts, or savannas, they are incredibly adaptable animals. The best habitat for them is dense, thorny, spiny hackberry, low brush, lot bush, and black brush. Ocelots do not hibernate. In the 1980s there fur sold for $40,000 and as pets they were sold for $800, they are not sold as pets today. There are laws prohibiting hunting for fur trade. The Ocelot is the second largest spotted cats in South America.
The males are called Torn, and females are called Queen. Ocelots have short thick velvety fur usually yellow to reddish-grey in color and marked with black-...
The general characteristics of minks is that they are mammals just like humans, which means that we both are born with hair, mammary glands for the females and different characteristics in our anatomy to those of birds and reptiles. Their scientific name is Mustela Vison. The mink has very long trunk, short legs and very large neck. The tail is thick and the feet are slightly webbed enabling them to swim better. In all the mink measures about 12-15 inches long and weight 1 ½ to 3 pounds. The fur is very dark almost black, on the chin the fur is white with a little white fur on its throat.
The people of Florida think so, and that is why they named it their state animal. This panther is one of about thirty subspecies of Felis concolor. The subspecies, coryi, is one of the rarest and most endangered animals in the world. Panthers, also called pumas, cougars, screamers, and mountain lions, once ranged from the southern end of South America into Canada. In appearance, the Florida panther is similar to other panthers.
The female reproductive system in birds is reduced in most species to a left ovary and oviduct. This unilateral reduction of the female reproductive system is thought to bear two benefits: it reduces the female’s body and it prevent the potential problem of simultaneously carrying two large fragile eggs within the abdominal cavity. It also balances the body with the liver on the right side adjacent to the left ovary.
If puffins are disturbed by humans they will leave their nests and will not come back. This has led to the extinction of puffin colonies in parts of the European coastline.
Jellyfish are monsters of a sort. Jellyfish can distort things and shut down whole systems of government when they come in swarms. There are several types of jellyfish but one can have devastating effects. The everyday monster of the jellyfish causes fisheries to lose money, clogs power systems to shut down due to the masses of them and can shut down water filter systems. Jellyfish affect other fish and will kill people easily with their sharp points. Their tentacles are deadly weapons when jabbed with their points. The problem can be solved when the natural ecosystem is the same and jellyfish eats their prey.
Encephaloceles are rare disorders that are caused by a neural tube defect in which the bones of the skull fail to close completely. This failure to close allows cerebral spinal fluid, brain tissue, and the meninges to push through the gap and create a sac-like formation protruding from the skull. Encephaloceles differ from meningoceles in that meningoceles contain only the meninges and cerebral spinal fluid, whereas encephaloceles involve brain tissue being pushed through the sac as well. Encephaloceles will often co-occur with other cranial and/or facial abnormalities and may be associated with a syndrome. This result of a neural tube defect most commonly occurs at the midline of the upper part of the skull, at the area
The female red Oophaga pumilios prefers to only mate with red males which leads to speciation. According to GrrlScientist, 4 researchers conducted an 18-month mark-recapture study on this. These researchers captured 677 wild Oophaga pumilios (312 males, 274 females, and 91 juveniles) (GrrlScientist, “Choosy Females Speed Speciation of Poison Dart Frogs.”). When the researchers analyzed the data, they found that 91% of the females mated with red males. With the yellow females, there was no clear pattern on how they mated leaving out that most of the frogs were red. That leaves the frogs that were yellow not being able to breed down. If this was to continue, then the frogs would separate and become different species of different
The damselfly species is part of an insect group called Odonata. Odonata consists of dragonflies, which are the suborder Anisoptera, and damselflies, which are the suborder Zygoptera. The insect group Odonata is very small, probably containing only about 5,000 living species (Corbet, 1999).
Male red-tailed black-cockatoos are black with areas of red on the underside of their tails except on the two central feathers. They have an upright, backward-sloping crest and dark grey bills and feet. Females are brownish black with areas of yellow on their head, shoulders, and the underside of their tales. Their bills are cream colored, and their feet are dark grey. The actual size of the cockatoo ranges from 50-65 cm and 570-870 g (Del Hoyo et al., 1997). Calls of the cockatoo are loud, harsh, and can be heard from a distance (Higgins, 1997).
Genetic modification has been around since the early 12,000 BC, when humans started domesticating organisms. Genetic modification also known as, Genetic Engineering is The process of manipulating genes for practical purposes. Modern Genetic modification started in the early 1970’s and since then people have been genetically modifying organisms, from fruits to animals. An organism that has been genetically modified is GloFish. GloFish is a patented and trademarked fluorescent fish.
Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar. Two major subspecies of the tiger are the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger. The tiger is thought to have originated in northern Asia during the Pleistocene Epoch.
The phenomenal recent discovery of the species saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), was found in the Annamite Mountains along the Laos/Vietnam border in 1992. The saola was the first latest large mammal to be discovered in over 50 years, making it one of the biggest zoological discoveries of the 20th century. Also known as the “Asian unicorn,” the rare saola species prefer living in moist, dense evergreen forests with little or no dry season. The saolas have been attempting to survive in the condensed regions of the subtropical evergreen or mixed evergreen and deciduous forests, only found within the Annamite Mountain Range along the northwest-southeast Vietnam-Laos border (Holcomb). The area of the narrow range of the forests that the saola used to inhabit was is 5,000 to 15,000 sq. km, although they don’t inhabit in this area anymore. The saolas’ extremely scarce numbers make their dispersal difficult to determine; currently, they are known to be densely populated into the decreasing area of the evergreen forests and travel mainly individually and occasionally in clumped dispersion. They have been mainly sighted nearby streams, most likely to survive off of the water and possible supplies nearby. Saolas also tend to live on the borderlines of the forests; they currently inhabit the mountain forests during the wetter seasons and live in the lowlands during the winter. Saola are currently known to be herbivores, eating leafy plants, fig leaves, and stems along the rivers, observed from locals that have sighted them. And their shelters that they specifically reside in are unknown.
States and southern Canada. In the west, the species was found from Mexico to California.
Males are usually larger than females, but there are no obvious physical differences that mark their sexes. There is only one very slight difference in the pattern of scales in front of the cloaca. Though it is difficult for researchers to identify the sexes, the Komodos seem to have no trouble. They mate between the months of May and August. The female lays about 30 eggs and the incubation cycle is roughly 9 months (Benyus, 1992).
Leopards and cheetahs are both big cats in African and somewhat of asia. They compete for food and territory, along with African lions, wild dogs, hyenas, and jackals. Leopards are found in Africa, and Asia, usually on the southern side of asia. Cheetahs are found all over Africa and in southern Asia as well. Cheetah’s have a deep chest narrow waist short coarse fur (tan with 2-3 cm in diameter black spots) white spotless underbelly with four to six rings on tail. (diffen.com) Leopards have relatively short legs with a long body and a massive skull with powerful jaw muscles, Males are 30% larger than females.(diffen.com)