Moray Eel

Beauty Of Animal | Moray eel | Moray eel is a large species of eel found in warm and temperate waters throughout the world. Although the snake-like appearance, moray eels (along with other eel species) in fish facts and not reptiles. Eels are found in both deep and shallow waters in tropical and sub-tropical. Although eels can be found in the cold waters sometimes, they tend to remain in the cracks in the sea rather than venturing to the beach. The largest population of eel found around tropical coral reefs where they are different marine species are found in large numbers.

There are about 200 different species of moray eels than can range in size from just a 10cm length of almost 2 meters in length. Despite their varied sizes and colors all eels are quite similar in appearance to the body elongated, slightly flattened toward the tail. Eels also has large eyes and a mouth that contains large teeth. Moray eels are animals relative secrecy, spent a lot of time hiding in holes and crevices among rocks and coral on the sea floor. By spending most of their time hiding, moray eels can still be seen from predators and also able to ambush any unsuspecting prey that passes.

Kinds Of Eel: 

Electric eel
American eel
Hagfish
European eel

As with many other large fish, moray eels are carnivores living on a diet consisting of meat alone. Fish, molluscs including squid and cuttlefish, and crustaceans such as crabs are the main source of food for moray eels. Moray eel is often one of the most dominant predators in the environment but moray eels hunt by some other animals, including other large fish such as grouper and barracuda, sharks and humans.

Eels tend to marry when warm water towards the end of summer. Fertilization moray eels are oviparous, which means that the egg and sperm are fertilized outside the womb, in the surrounding water, known as spawning. More than 10,000 eggs can be released at the time, which develop into larvae and become part of the plankton. It can take up to one year for moray eel larvae have grown large enough to swim into the ocean to join the community.

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Coelacanth

Beauty Of Animal | Coelacanth | More closely related to tetrapods than stingrays, fish is considered to be transitional species between fish and tetrapods until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, from River Chalumna (now Tyolomnqa) in 1938. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local fisherman, Captain Hendrick Goosen, on December 23, 1938. A local chemistry professor, JLB Smith, confirmed the importance of fish to the famous cable: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED"

As a food fish the coelacanth is almost worthless, as a network that delivers oil emits rotten meat taste. Coelacanth survival continues to be threatened by sea commercial trawling. Fish is part of a sea king Sarcopterygii clade, or lobe-finned fish. Externally, there are several characteristics that distinguish from other coelacanth lobe-finned fish. They have a three-lobed tail fin, also called flippers trilobate. A secondary tail that extends past the line and main tail separates the top and bottom of the coelacanth. Cosmoid scale acts as a thick armor that protects the outside of the coelacanth. There are also some internal characteristic that helps in differentiating from another coelacanth lobe-finned fish.

Formed the core of the coelacanth is different from most modern fish, the heart chambers arranged in a straight tube. The coelacanth braincase is 98.5% filled with fat, only 1.5% of the braincase containing brain tissue. Cheek of the coelacanth is unique because very small opercular bone and soft tissue flap holds the opercular. Coelacanth also contains a unique rostral organ in the ethmoid region of the braincase. Also unique to the coelacanth is still there, is the "lungs fat" or fat full single-lobed lung vestigial Sea king fish usually caught when a local fisherman fishing for Oilfish. 

 

Fishermen will sometimes rip Coelacanth is not a Oilfish because they traditionally fish in the evening when Oilfish (and coelacanth) are eaten. Before scientists became interested in coelacanths, they are thrown back into the water if caught. Before the 1980's, this is a problem for coelacanth population. In the 1980s, international aid gave fiberglass boats for local fishermen and fishing out of the area resulted in a more productive Coelacanth fish waters.

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Wasp

Beauty Of Animal | Wasp | Wasps are flying insect medium are found throughout the world. Hornet is known for its black and yellow, which means that some species of wasps and bees are usually confused. Wasps are found in all countries of the world, on every continent with the exception of the polar regions. There are about 75,000 species worldwide recognized wasps that grow to about 2/3 inches long.

Wasp stings are most commonly known poisonous, that if humans are stung can often swell into painful lumps that require a few days to calm down. Some people are allergic to wasp stings means wasp sting can be fatal. Not all wasps can sting though but they are often able to die after they have used their stings have it joined to the rear they often become dislodged. When the wasp dies it releases the smell (called a pheromone) that warns the other wasps of danger and in need of assistance.

Like many other species of insects, wasps are social insects and wasps are many, as many as 10,000, inhabit just one nest. Wasp queen is growing and she builds her nest of thin substance made of chewed wood and plants. Typically, bees only live for 12-22 days. Wasps are omnivorous animals and therefore eat a mixture of plants and other animals.

 

Such as bees, wasps prefer sweet and primarily eat plant nectar, fruit and honey. Wasps also eat insects and even large caterpillars. Although bright colors to deter predators, wasps are eaten by a number of different animals around the world, including birds, amphibians, reptiles and other mammals. Queen wasps lay their eggs in the nest which hatch in a few days.

 

When the wasp larvae hatch they are cared for by other wasps in the nest and begin to hunt for food to bring back to the nest. Wasps are known to travel nearly half a mile away from the nest in search of food.

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Arctic Wolf

Beauty Of Animal | Arctic Wolf | Arctic Wolf, The Arctic wolf is found in the most northern parts of the wolf 's range, in the Arctic Circle. Arctic wolves mainly inhabit Northern Canada and Alaska, parts of Greenland and Iceland and Northern Europe. Arctic wolves are incredibly versatile and adaptive animals, Able to withstand year round sub​​-zero Temperatures. Living in the Arctic Circle, the Arctic wolf spends five out of twelve months in total darkness.

The Arctic wolf hunts lemmings, assorted rodents, and Arctic hare but will take larger prey like caribou when available. When the Arctic wolf wants to hunt musk ox, the pack will gather and work as a team attempt to isolate it from the herd and take it. An adult musk ox is simply too big for one Arctic wolf to try and take on alone. 

Although the Arctic wolf is generally smaller in size than the gray wolf, Arctic wolves growing niche to be bulkier than gray wolves with the male Arctic wolves also growing larger than the female Arctic wolves.

Normally, only the alpha male and female Arctic wolf Arctic wolves breed, but if a pack gets too large it may break up into new smaller packs giving others the opportunity to mate. Due to the Arctic Circle's uncompromising permafrost soil and the difficulty it poses for digging dens, Arctic wolves Often use rock outcroppings, caves or even shallow depressions as dens instead.

Arctic wolf pups are born in litters of two or three in the months of May and June, meaning that the Arctic wolf pups are born about a month later than the gray wolf pups. Arctic wolves growing niche to be white with brown irises, unlike most other subspecies of wolves with yellow to amber eyes. White fur gives them camouflage in a snowy environment, and the darker irises give added protection to the eyes in a high glare environment.

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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 aggressive towards dogs and even humans. 

 

The badger is capable of producing a painful bite, and some dolphins are also known to bring the most commonly known type of dolphin rabies.The is white and black striped badger in Western Europe. Badgers considered related to otters and weasels and often can grow to almost a meter in length! The badger living in underground burrows often contain a maze of tunnels. It is estimated that when digging the nest, the badger was able to remove tons of soil.

Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies badger, which belong to the family Mustelidae. This is the same mammal family as ferrets, the weasels, otters, and several other types of carnivore meaning that the badger is most closely related to animals. There are eight different species of badger, and the species is divided into three subfamilies badger badger, badgers of Europe and Asia, Ratel or honey badger, and the American badger. The smell never classified as Asian badger badger badger species but today considered to be more closely related to skunks than raccoons.

Typical badger species have short legs and badgers also tend to have relatively heavy build. Lower jaw articulated with meaning  badger upper jaw that is almost impossible to remove badgers jaw. This allows it to maintain its grip on badger prey very easily, but it limits the movement of badgers jaw to open and close hinging or sliding from side to side.

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Beetle

Beauty Of Animal | Beetle | Beetles are small invertebrates are known to be very flexible and are found in many different shapes and sizes. Beetles are found in almost every habitat on earth different and just absent from the frozen polar regions. Beetle has the largest number of sub-species of all insects, with 40% of all recognized insect classified as beetles. There are more than 350,000 different species of beetles noted, however, scientists estimate the true number is between 4 million and 8 million species of beetle. 

 

Like the other species of insect, beetle's body consists of three parts all coated in a hard outer shell, which is the beetle's head, thorax and abdomen of the beetle beetles. Beetles also have an antenna that is used to understand the environment of beetles and made about 10 different parts.

Beetles are believed to play an important role in the ecosystem where they inhabit mainly because they consume the debris of plants and animals including the petals fall and manure. All animals that digest decaying matter worked wonders for the soil as they consume most of the compounds that can be absorbed into the soil, such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen. 

Beetles are omnivorous animals and eat anything but generally can find plants and fungi and debris from both plants and animals. Some of the larger species of beetles have been known to eat small birds and even small mammals species. Other species of wood dust beetles feed and therefore enjoy digging himself into a tree.

Due to their small size and broad, diverse, many species of beetles that prey animals from insects to reptiles, birds, fish and mammals. The exact predator of beetles, but is highly dependent on the size and type of area where the beetles and beetle inhabit. More recently, the Asian long-horned beetle has been found in a number of North American countries by the beetle has quickly gained a name for itself as an agricultural pest. Asian long-horned beetle is boring bark beetle species, which means that they dig themselves into the wood.

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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 both color and size.

Mice elephant known as the insects as they survive on food that consists only of insects. Despite their name and appearance of the same, Rat elephant is not considered directly related to temper their cousins ​​in other parts of the world. Mice elephant is an animal that is very active and is always hunting for food during the day. Because diurnal lifestyle of elephant shrew, have learned to live it in the most successful way possible. Rats elephants are very alert and well-camouflaged animals, and were able to escape from danger very quickly.

A number of species of elephant shrew made a series of paths cleared through the bush and spend their days patrolling them for insect life. Line also provides elephant shrew a clear home-run should it be compromised by potential predators. Although mice elephants are omnivorous animals, diets of elephant shrew is almost entirely made up of insects. The elephant shrew hunting worms and grubs from outside the ground, spiders that run along the ground and insects found around it.

Due to the small size of the elephant shrew, it has a number of natural predators in the wild. Snakes, lizards, birds of prey and omnivorous mammals all prey on elephant shrew, but do not eat the elephant shrew easiest way to try and catch. Rats female elephants delivered more than 1 liter of babies every year. Mice baby elephant born after a gestation period that can be between 1 and 2 months. Baby elephant Mice thrive when they are first born but remain in the nest for a few days before they start to head in the wide world.

Kinds Of Elephant Shrew

Black and rufous elephant shrew

The black and rufous elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi), also known as the black and rufous sengi, is one of 16 species of elephant shrew alive today in Africa. Like other members of the genus Rhynchocyon, it is a relatively large species, with adults averaging c. 28 cm (11 in) in length and 450-700 g (1-1.5 lb) in weight. It is endemic to Kenya and Tanzania. It eats insects and small mammals (especially the black rat) as well as vegetation.
Because they are classified as vulnerable, several zoos have begun breeding these elephant shrews, including the Philadelphia Zoo, which has a successful breeding program. Two black and rufous elephant shrew brothers were born on February 4th 2007 at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. They now reside, for the time being, at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT as part of the Tree of Life exhibit

Golden-rumped elephant shrew

 

The golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) is the largest of the African elephant shrew family. It is the size of a small rabbit, and is only found in the coastal Arabuko Sokoke National Park north of Mombassa in Kenya. Its name is derived from the conspicuous golden fur on its hindquarters which contrasts strongly with its otherwise dark fur. On juveniles its fur shows vestigal traces of the checkerboard pattern seen on another giant elephant shrew, the checkered elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon cirnei).

The golden-rumped elephant shrew lives on the forest floor of evergreen forests, rooting through the leaf litter for 80% of the waking day looking for grasshoppers, beetles, spiders and other small invertebrates. The golden-rumped elephant shrew has evolved various stratagems to avoid predators, particularly snakes (like black mambas and cobras) and the southern banded snake-eagle. It is very fast, capable of running at 25km/h. When it detects a predator within its 'flight distance' it will bound off. If, however, the predator is outside its flight distance the elephant shrew will advertise its presence by slapping the leaf litter.

This lets the predator know that it has been seen and it should not waste its time chasing the elephant shrew. In the event of a chase, or an ambush, the golden flash of fur will also often deflect the predators attention away from the head and onto the rump, which has thickened skin. As a final precaution each shrew has several nests which it maintains, thus a predator finding a nest will not learn to associate them with potential food.

Short-eared Elephant Shrew

The Short-eared Elephant Shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus), or Round-eared Sengi or Round-eared Elephant Shrew, is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and hot deserts. They eat insects, shoots, and roots. Their gestation period is 56 days. The Short-eared Elephant Shrew is the only species in its genus (monotypic), but is still grouped with the soft-furred (non-giant) elephant shrews, Elephant-shrews are among only a handful of monogamous mammals, making them a model group for the study of monogamy. The Short-eared Elephant Shrews have been studied for their mate guarding behavio

Four-toed elephant shrew

The four-toed elephant shrew or four-toed sengi is the only living species in the genus Petrodromus, which together with three other extant genera Rhynchocyon, Macroscelides and Elephantulus constitutes the order Macroscelidea. This species is only found in particular regions in Africa and is smaller in size compared to its relatives. A comprehensive recording of this species is lacking. As their name suggests, they have four toes on their hind feet and like other elephant shrews, it has been named for it's elephant-like, mobile trunk.

Rufous Elephant Shrew

The Rufous Elephant-shrew or Rufous Sengi (Elephantulus rufescens) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The name "Rufous Sengi"means "pygmy elephant, become red" in Latin.

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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 Fossa It is the largest mammalian predator of Madagascar. However, due to the appearance of a cat from Fossa primitive species that was believed cats to date. Unfortunately as the number of unique animal species found in Madagascar at this time though, Fossa are very rare and are now considered endangered in their natural habitat was mainly due to habitat loss.

Fossa Anatomy and Appearance

Fossa is the largest land predator on the island of Madagascar Individuals with some grow to nearly two feet in length from snout to the tip of their tails were long and slender. Fossa has a brief but solid red to dark brown fur and a head like a little cat and a dog-like snout, with eyes facing forward large and small, rounded ears. Although related to the weasel, Fossa has a very number of features including arched cat, retractable claws and webbed feet a little help ambos The Fossa When moving around between branches.

Fossa Distribution and Habitat

Like the majority of animal and plant species that are found on the island of Madagascar, the fossa are found nowhere else on Earth. Growing human settlements has greatly influenced Also Madagascar Population Fossa Often As They hunted by farmers who fear for their livestock. Behavior and Lifestyle Trench, Trench are solitary and nocturnal mammals that patrol the four major areas of square kilometers and mark their presence with the scent released from the anal glands of them. Reproduction and Life Cycle Fossa, ike many solitary carnivores, puddles only come together to mate During the breeding season in September and October.

Fossa Diet and Prey

Fossa is the largest mammalian carnivore in Madagascar and is therefore only survive by eating other animals in the surrounding forest. Fossa has evolved perfect for hunting and consumption of Lemurs and in fact, more than half of Fossa diet consists of Them. Fossa Predators and Threats, Humans pose the greatest threat to the Fossa They not only fear they hunted in their livestock, but has been completely destroyed Also 90% of the very large range of natural Fossa.

Fossa Interesting Facts and Features

Fossa tend to measure about a meter long tail of the same length, but on top of that, in recent years fossil Giant Fossa now extinct has been discovered in the forests of Madagascar, the largest fossil Fossa Giant Measured Nearly six feet long and estimated to weigh approximately 17 kg! Fossa can run incredibly fast, and added to that remarkable agility in the tree tops, so eating has been seen Fossa is very adept at capturing later.

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