In the animal world, we all know how the popularity of the king of the jungle, lion, makes it the famous predator with the tigers. Although they are different species, but it is not impossible to make the combination of both species to make a new species, which has already resulted Liger, the abbreviation of lion and tiger.
The hybrid cross of tiger and lion is notably seen as growing much bigger than their parent species. With the size, the species is today known as the biggest cat in the world. They can weigh until 320 kg, while the average weight of lions is about 200 to 250 kg, while the tigers have the average weight of 300 kg.
The average of a Liger is about 20 years. The oldest Liger that had ever lived aged 24 years. The story of a Liger was started in the early 19th century, in Asia. However, the hybrid cross has been seen as actually against the nature, that it could even be compared to how impossible should be the hybrid between human being and any species of animal. Though, even the project works, but it actualy brings bad effect like death to the female when they give birth to a Liger.
The Hybrid Cross of Lion and Tiger
India’s Problem with Wolves
In the world today, the controversy of the wolves is on how to protect it as endangered species. In one side, it is said while the other side would say they should be hunted and killed for the worry of stealing the livestock and even causes the tragedy like attacking people, like that once happened in 1878 in India. At that time, there were about 624 people were killed by the wolves in UP, and in 1995 another tragedy happened while in Bihar there were 80 children attacked, among which, 20 were rescued.
Such a dilemma makes the decision to conserve the wolves in India becomes very hard. The population of the wolves is declining drastically lately for the absence of attention to their habitat today. The important role of the wolves to balance the ecosystem in the area makes them considerable for the protection, but in the other side, the dark history as well as the coming of the tigers there also make them become the pitiful endangered species to be abandoned and remain left behind. Different with tiger area that gives the compensation for the loss of livestock of people, there is no such scheme of compensation in the area of wolves.
Between Rhino and Cow
There is a book entitled Rhinoceros Success written by Scott Alexander. This book spawned the analogy of rhinos and the cows. However, the facts show more interesting things between rhino and cow in animal world. Here we will talk about it.
In the contrast of what the book tells about rhino, the animal in fact is strong, thick-skinned, single-minded and determined. Rhino even has a reputation as a highly tempered animal. In other words, this animal is very aggressive and it is due to its low eyesight. Rhino likes to play both in mud and clean water. The sad thing is that the animal is now critically endangered species. On the other hand, the cow is peaceful, oblivious and serene animal that waits either to get slaughtered or milked. What is in the book is not a perfect analogy although still the story gives pause to our thought.
Today, some cows maybe can learn on how to because rhinos. This can truly happen despite the book story about cow and rhino. If you were a restless typed- cow you should start to do a little homework. A question is left about how can you start to nurture the “seeds of rhino qualities” that resides in you?
Orangutan Loss Their Home
Forest is a big natural place where the animals grow and live their life. Forest is also a place where food chain happens. But, if we cannot keep the forest, it will happen the unbalanced of ecosystem especially in animal world. They will lose their home, lose their foods.
Forest, here, as a place where one of rare animals in the world live. It is Orangutan. If the trees in the forest are cut, how is the life of Orangutan? A place where they should be has been destroyed by our own bad manner for our own interests. For example, we cut the trees and then we use them to build houses or export the trees to foreign country.
In Kalimantan, where we can find a lot of Orangutan, this animal has arrived to the residents and they have been very disturbing residents. They damage corps the property of the residents. Why does something like this happen? You should ask yourself. If your home is taken by a person, what will you do? The same thing happens to Orangutan. Because of losing their home, they will find another home. So, do not cut the trees, save our forest and let the animals live.
Culture Interaction between Giraffes and Humans
Interaction between giraffes and humans has occurred in a long time. In plain view, the giraffe is an animal that can be enjoyed when someone visits the zoo. However, in another specific case, especially in cultures, the giraffe is considered as a special animal that has certain advantages. In Arabic poetry, for example, the giraffe is known as the queen among the animals, while at the same time, the animal was awarded the title “special pets” by the eastern Sultan.
In animal world, during antiquity, the giraffe is also known as the beast that is valued by the people, Pompey maintain ten of these animals in Stage Theater in ancient Roman times. Nevertheless, these animals have been forgotten by those who live in the Middle Ages, although legend about the giraffe is always told by Arab explorers. In 1486 in Florence, Italy, Medici Giraffe is kind of giraffe which was introduced by Lorenzo de'Medici. At that time, the excitement going on there and soon became famous giraffe and a spectacle many people for being the first giraffe can be seen since ancient Roman times.
In the literary world, the word "giraffe" is a novel written by J.M. Ledgard. His work focuses its story on a real incident in which 49 giraffes were slaughtered in 1979 in the Czech Republic because it was considered as animal disease spreaders. From the examples above, the relationship between giraffes and humans were not limited to the zoo alone, but extends into other areas such as culture and Everyday Life.
About Desert Camel Safari in Thar Desert
The Thar Desert is an absolutely colorful. Theun-spoilt villages have magnificent citadels with rich historic background and a colorful culture. You must be on a camel, one of exotic creature in animal world, if you want to experience the desert truly. In Jodhpur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer the safaris are found in India along with the wild life sanctuaries of India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Bikaner once were the desert’s princely states with courtyard mansions, palaces and intricately carved temples.
The city of kings is Jaisalmer. It is an ideal place to see the ancient monuments Manak Chowk, Badabagh and Jain Temples that are located on the outskirts of Baisakhi, Jaisalmer, and Ramkundra. With a camel ride these places are best explored. The most romantic and picturesque destinations can be enjoyed are the dunes of Sam that lie only 42 km away from the Jaisalmer’s main city. A glimpse of paradise on earth is given by the sunset at the dunes.
Lovely sights of the Beri of Kanoi and Damodara can also be enjoyed on your way to the Sam Sand Dunes. The Jodhpur city reflects the true spirit of the Thar Desert with its vibrant culture. On camel safaris, the places to visit are Umai Bhawan palace, Meherangarh Fort, Girdikot, Moti Mahal or Pearl Palace and the Jaswant Thada.
Awareness to Buy the Horse
If you wished to buy a horse, there are several things that you should consider before you chose one for you. First of all, you should make sure that you would choose the best horse. It means, you should choose the untrained horse. Choosing the untrained horse would only give you more troubles. You should never choose the untrained horse because you wouldn’t be able to train it yourself.
The second thing that you should do is don’t choose the real young horse. Just for your info, young horse means it doesn’t have “experiences”. It might be a bit freaky when you took it to see the world. When it scared on something, you might unable to control it and it would cause you more troubles. The next thing that you should do is don’t buy a horse to be used as your kids’ pet.
It’s never a kind of wise choice to buy a horse as a pet for your kids. It’s not safe for the kids and you surely shouldn’t do that. The next thing that you should do is never buy a horse from auction. Auction’s horses turned out to be some terrible horses. Some sellers in the auction might be the naughty one. They even drugged the horse to look so calm so the buyers would love to have it. This is the common thing that happened in the animal world business.
Fish - The Most Popular Species in the Water Animal Water
There are many types of animal in this world. Some of them can be found on the land, like cows, horses, cats, dogs, monkeys and many others. Some are seen flying on the air, like birds and flying insects. The last and the largest habitat of the animals is the water. There are many different animals that you can find in the water. The most popular one is fish.
Exploring the water animal world is very fantastic. You can find various types of fish species. There are small fish and big fish. The shapes also can be various. If you dive to the deep sea, you will meet the colorful fish with various shapes and sizes. Just like any other animal species, fish also needs oxygen. Fish have gills on the both sides of the head. The function of the gills is to filter the oxygen from the water. With this magic organ, fish can stay alive under the water.
There are freshwater fish and marine fish. The freshwater fish can be found at the river or lake. This type of fish is only able to live in the water with low salinity level. It is different with the marine fish that needs the salty water to stay alive.
Efforts against the Crocodile’s Extinction
Handbags, shoes and belts are the excellent kinds of accessories. Those are the excellent kinds of accessories, either for men or ladies. The most excellent kinds of belts, handbags and shoes are the accessories that were made of the crocodile’s leather. In the animal world, crocodile has been considered as the excellent kind of animals that has the awesome skin. The skin would be excellent after it was being processed as leather.
It has the great pattern which would make the accessories looks extremely beautiful. That is why, the accessories that were made of the crocodile’s leather have been considered as the premium accessories. In the stores, those accessories were displayed with the extra high prices and somehow, people would be delighted to buy it. Unfortunately, this is the main cause of the crocodile extinction threat from the animal world.
The massive hunting to fulfill the demands of the accessories industries have set the crocodile into great dangers. To prevent it happened, the conservation efforts for the crocodile have been set in the entire world. The crocodiles that could be slaughtered to get the skin and the meat are limited. There are some strict and tight rules to maintain the crocodile in the animal world.
More about the Snakes
Most people are afraid of snakes because they are potentially deadly due to their venom. Snakes are available in all continents unless the Antarctica. In animal world snakes are known for their legless body. They are elongating and crawling reptiles, which are different from lizards because they do not have eyelid and external ears.
Like all other squamates the snakes are covered by overlapping scales. They are ectothermic and amniotes. Currently there are fifteen families of snakes have been identified encompassing 456 genera as well as 2,900 species. The size of snakes ranges from 10 cm to 7.6 meters long. The longest snakes are the anacondas. A snake fossil of 15 meters long has recently discovered.
It is thought that snakes have evolved from their aquatic or terrestrial lizard ancestors during the period of Cretaceous. During the Paleocene period the modern snakes appeared. Most species of snakes are non-poisonous and some species that are venomous only use their venom for a self-defense mechanism. However, the poisonous venom of snakes have the potential to kill humans. Some species of snakes that are non-venomous can kill their prey either by swallowing or constrictioning.
Exotic Birds - The Yellow-rumped Warblers
The Yellow-rumped warblers are the colored little birds that are one of the commonest winter migrants on both the west and east. These birds can be found in deciduous forest but actually they prefer coniferous forest. We can find them at backyard feeders during the winter. The males and females of yellow-rumped warblers have distinct appearance therefore in animal world they are called sexually dimorphic.
The males of Yellow-rumped warblers have dark gray body color with conspicuous yellow highlights on their heads, throats and underneath each wing, and black breasts. The females of Yellow-rumped warblers have striped gray body with yellow patches underneath each wing and on their throat. At the base of their tails, both males and females have yellow patches giving them their name.
Yellow-rumped warblers are distinctive because the species once considered to be two different species. Based on slight differences in song and appearance they are separated as the western "Audubon's Warbler” and the eastern "Myrtle Warbler”. These two populations are confirmed to be interbred during summer. The populations of the eastern and the western are now considered as the Yellow-rumped Warbler’s subspecies. As both subspecies cannot interbreed then we can say that they are not distinct enough.
Balinese Tiger
Not only does Indonesia have the Javanese Tiger and also the Sumatran tiger, it also has another species of tiger. This tiger can be found in the area of Bali Island, a place which is known very well as a tourism place, not only by people in Indonesia but also many people in many places in the world.
The name of that inhabitant of Indonesian animal world is Balinese Tiger. This tiger used to live in the forest area of Bali Island. The number of this tiger was very few and it got fewer from time to time. The final point of time of the existence of this tiger was in the 27th of September, 1937, when it was announced to be extinct. The extinction of this tiger also related to the very small size of the island. It was not suitable for the tiger because they only had a very small living space.
The extinction of the Balinese Tiger is something which is very bad. People in Indonesia are now only able to know this tiger form some sources, like books. Moreover, it is very possible for Indonesian people for not knowing that the Balinese Tiger ever existed at all.
The Functions of Elephant’s Trunk
There is no question about it that elephant is one of the greatest animal on this planet. Well, such thing cannot be denied. It is because by judging the size of the elephant, all people will agree with the statement. Beside the big size of the elephant, this animal is also strong. That is why elephant is even said to be king of the animal world.
The strength of the elephants is often showed by the trunk. This trunk is full of strong muscles that can wreck your car instantly. The trunk is not only strong but it is also flexible. The elephants always use the trunks to help them eat their foods such as grass or leaves. The trunk will lift the foods and point the foods to the mouth. The trunk is like a hand for the elephant. When the elephants are thirsty, they also use the trunks to carry the water.
The elephants also use the trunks when they are taking a bath. They splash the water by using the trunks to make their bodies become wet. Well, there is no doubt that the strength of the elephants is located in the trunks. That is why you need to stay away from the trunks if you do not want to be harmed.
Lions in their Edge of Living
Lion is known as the only truly social cats while the other cat species would usually come in solitary existence. The king of the jungle is the symbol of courage, nobility, and it is often called as the king of the jungle. Unfortunately, the kings are now under the threat of extinction due to the narrower habitat for the human boom population as well as being the hunting trophies, both for medical and magical power. They live in most sub-saharan Africa and a little part of India today, with significant decrease of amount every year.
Dereck and Beverly Joubert, a couple of conservationists as well as adventurers that have been living in the middle of Bostwana jungles since years ago told National Geographic how lions would be in the real extinction in the next 15 years if they are not conservated well from today. In fact, their amount is decreasing a lot. In 1960, the population of lion in the wild life was about 400.000. Today, their population globally is only about 20.000. Of course, this amount is obviously a bad news for animal world, that shows such a significant decrease, which can be counted as about 95%. Thus, there shall be more conservations established for lions right now.
Distinguishing Wolves from Dogs
Often we see how wolves, although have different appearance from dogs, but seem to have many similarities. Right now we can see what differ both of the species in detail so that we can have further knowledge about both, especially to recognize truly on what and how wolf actually is.
First, let us see on why they bark. Wolves actually only bark for several reasons, but they do it seldom. When they bark, it is usually the sign of threat. They can bark for their packs as well, while we see, the dogs often bark for many reasons. The face-lick greeting also becomes the sign of the difference of both species in the behavior.
The wolves seldom do that, or to be said as low frequency although it is such a common thing to do among them, but for the dogs, especially the types of toy breed, the frequency of face licking is much higher. The maternal/paternal behavior is also interesting to observe, that while the dogs often do it variably, but there is often absent in males, for wolves, such a behavior is balanced. Both male and the female regurgitate for their pups. Let us start to protect wolves today.
Why Black Rhino Are Endangered
It is bad news about the black rhino as the IUCN has listed it as critically endangered animal. In animal world, black rhino is mostly spotted in Africa particularly the southern and eastern areas of Africa but now it is in real danger that it becomes extinct in the foreseeable future. As it has hook like upper lip then this species is called the hooked-lipped rhino.
A solitary animal is the black rhino because although mothers with young sometime may be in small groups, it only comes together to mate. The eyesight of black rhino is very poor that therefore it gains a reputation for being extremely aggressive. However, the reputation does not refer to an understanding that rhino would attack like lion. In fact rhino does not usually attack us in the same way as lion probably does. The black rhino will only attack if it feels panic or fear because of its poor eyesight.
Today we may only expect that the number of black rhino is left several thousand due to ruthless hunting for its valuable horns. Keratin is the substance that builds rhino horn, which is also the same material that makes up human nail and hair. Unfortunately people in China as well as other parts of eastern Asia believe that the horn has medicinal properties so that they hunt rhino horn to use it as traditional medication. There is no supported study on the claim by the scientists but it seems that the herbalists keep using the rhino horn and claim that it can revive people from comas and can cure fevers.
Orangutan and Human
Long time ago, Charles Darwin said that there was a missing link between man and apes family. From his research and experiment, Darwin found a conclusion that human is still Orangutan’s relative. In the animal world, Darwin’s theory will not create any chaos or confusion but in human world many people do not agree with this theory.
After Darwin announced his theory, many people try to find the truth or proof on this theory. They compete to take an examination and observation on ape’s family especially Orangutan to be compared with human. There are many results of their test but most of them, whether they like it or not, said that human has close relation with them.
There are many similar characteristics between human and Orangutan. Both of them are mammals, both of them are social living creatures which means, both of them cannot survive without others. Both man and Orangutan has hair in their body and both of them eat using their hands. The important thing that differentiates between man and Orangutan is man not only has brain, but also has manner, while Orangutan only use their sense. They cannot choose what is right or wrong in this life.
Giraffe “Attraction” on the Zoo
When you visit the zoo with your family, you certainly have the option to enjoy various kinds of animals that are kept there. And one kind of animal you can enjoy with your family is Giraffe. Some people might believe that the giraffe was one of the interesting species to be enjoyed at the zoo, its skin that have irregular patterns of color seems a better value for the giraffes, while at the same time, its long neck are another thing that also could bring a sense of fun (or pleasure).
On the other hand, the giraffe is also favored by children. Although the giraffe can not do "attraction" as we can see in other animals (like bears), but usually the children are interested to enjoy it because it views when the giraffe's mouth trying to reach the top leaves in a tall tree is an "attraction" that could attracted children whose visit the zoo.
The zoo is perhaps a small animal world, a place where the giraffes are "forced" to live outside their natural habitat. However, such a thing might not be a problem if the zoo manager capable of running a good job when treating a giraffe so that visitors of the zoo can enjoy the "attractions" that are served by such animal.
Camels as Transportation of the Desert
Camels got its coin as the ships of the dessert. Why is it so? There are some good reasons behind it. More than 3000 years ago camels have been domesticated and in Africa and Asia humans rely upon them to transport get them transported across desert or arid environment to this day. In animal world it is known that camels are able to carry up to 200 lbs of weight and can travel up to twenty miles per day. Camels can be as fast as horses yet they can travel for extended periods with no water or food. That is why camels are well equipped to survive in the desert.
Camels can be well adapted to the landscape of desert because their feet are broad and round and in the snow they work a little bit like a snow shoes so that in the sand they will not sink in. camels also have a special membrane over their eyes so that unlike us that cannot stand when sand blown into eyes, camels have their eyes protected by the membranes from the sand. Furthermore these animals have ability to close their nostrils so the sand will always be kept out of their nose.
The habitats of camels comprise regions in Africa, Asia and in some feral animals in Australia. Camels were imported to Australia in the 19th century. Some of those camels are adapted to cold of winter by growing thick with shaggy coats that will shed them in the hot of summer seasons.
Tips to Get the Horse
If we love the horse, we would love to purchase it someday. Well, purchasing the horse is an easy thing, but purchasing the perfect horse is a different thing. Here are some smart steps that you should do to choose the perfect horse. First of all, you got to review on yourself to know what your purpose of having the horse is. If you wanted to get the horse for works, you should choose the different horse for racing.
The next thing that you should do is how to know how to get the horse. There are several ways that you could use to get the horse. You could get the horse on cash, on lease, or other ways. There are some kinds of financial services that have already provided the leasing service to get the house. It would be the excellent way to get the horse.
Furthermore, you should search for some information where to find the horse. You could search for some info about the best horse farms near your location. Soon after you got the info of the farm, you could get there and search for some info about the perfect kind of products of the farm. They might have some special horse that they have produced. In animal world, there are many kinds of special horses that we could choose.