Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Hedgehog

   A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, which is in order Erinaceomorpha.There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and New Zealand (by introduction).
 There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and have changed little over the last 15 million years. Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of lifeHedgehogs' spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated rodent porcupines and monotreme echidnas.

Thursday, 25 December 2014

The Angora rabbit

 The Angora rabbit (Turkish: Ankara tavşanı) is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft wool. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara (historically known as Angora), Turkey, along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with French royalty in the mid-18th century, and spread to other parts of Europe by the end of the century. They first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century. They are bred largely for their long Angora wool, which may be removed by shearing, combing, or plucking. There are many individual breeds of Angora rabbits, four of which are recognized by American Rabbit Breeders' Association (ARBA); they are English, French, Giant, and Satin. Other breeds include German, Chinese, Swiss, Finnish, Korean, and St. Lucian.

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Dinosaur

  Dinosaurs or Aldnasir and plural dinosaur or dinosaur: (a word expressing the term Latino compound, meaning lizard terrifying) is a variety of extinct animals were over 160 million years old are vertebrates dominant on the surface

Saturday, 20 December 2014

Strangest animal world ... Okabe

  There are a lot of exotic animals in the world and most famous of these animals is Okapi animal is an animal from the original mammals to the rainforests of Ituri, and located in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central  Africa, although the okapi bears striped markings resembling zebras, it is closely associated such as the giraffe.



     Okabe be dark reddish-backs, with striking
 horizontal white stripes on the front, back, and          legs, making them resemble zebras from a distance. These signs may help young people to    follow their mothers through dense rainforest, and may also serve as camouflage   .

Prairie dogs

      Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) of the original rodent back to the pastures of North America. Five different types of prairie dogs are: black-tailed, white-tailed and Gunnison, Utah, and the Mexican prairie dogs, they are a type of squirrel, found in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In Mexico.

Seagull bird

    Nawras (scientific name: Larus) is a genus of birds followed Alnursah platoon. The Seagull is a waterfowl often located near beaches feeds on fish. Add to that these birds are sweeping beaches to feed on the remains and waste of the many that you find on these shores. Also known as the seagull.                                                                                    

Friday, 19 December 2014

Favus


    Favus or woodpecker is a bird woodpecker of the most famous bird species which is characterized by a set of characteristics .. where his habits performed regularly and the insistence of strangers also features beak Madab used by the pry trees by the rapid continuous clicking as this bird has a trail solid used with his feet in install itself on the trees and feeds woodpecker on worms and beetles and builds its nest in a strange way as digging a hole in the tree.Then dig a long corridor perpendicular to the entrance hole in the trunk of the tree and a length of 30 cm and at the bottom of this corridor put female woodpecker eggs from 4-7 small eggs. The same old trees or dead forest best suited for woodpeckers environment where wandering find insects and worms, which are abundant in those trees. There are different sizes of birds woodpecker begins each length of up to 7 inches. Featuring male woodpecker spread of red feathers on their heads frequently than females.    

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