Gharial

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Gharial | Like all large crocodiles, gharials life begins quite low. Young gharials, a length of 1 m (3.3 feet) in 18 months. The average body weight of the species 159-250 kg (350-550 lb). Gharials exceeded in length only by the saltwater crocodile. Gharials tail "well developed laterally flattened and webbed rear feet provide tremendous maneuverability in their deepwater habitats. On land, however, an adult gharial only to push forward and slide on the belly. Continued improvement of swimming ability, body shape gavial relatively cylindrical, compared to the larger, more well-built body of water or a Nile crocodile salt for the detection of different prey consists edges of streams. The gharial's long narrow snout is proportionally shorter and thicker as an animal ages. Growth bulb at the end of the mouth of a crocodile man gharials accessible as sexual dimorphism.

The Nepali word Ghara घड़ा means earthenware pot, water, vase, pitcher. cheeks are nested, sharp teeth lined 27 to 29 above and 25 or 26 lower teeth on each side. Opening is a nasal gharial is smaller than the above-temporal pit. the front lower edge of the track (Jugal) is raised and lower jaws is extremely long, arranged in 23 or 24 teeth. nuchal and dorsal scales form a shield 21 or 22 continuous transverse series. gavials an outer row of scales soft, smooth or slightly beside keeled dorsal bone platesTypically, adult gharials dark olive color, while boys are pale olive, with dark brown spots or cross bands

Gharials once in all the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent, spread over prospered rivers in the northern part of the Indus in Pakistan through the Gangetic plains of the Irrawaddy in Myanmar. Today, they disappeared in the river Indus, the Brahmaputra of Bhutan and Bangladesh and in the Irrawaddy River. Their distribution is limited to only 2% of their former range India are small populations exist and takes into rivers Chambal National Sanctuary, Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Son River Sanctuary and the rainforest biome of Mahanadi in Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary, Orissa, where they apparently can not reproduce

In Nepal, small populations are present and slowly recovering in tributaries of the Ganges, the river Rapti-Narayani system in Chitwan National Park and the Karnali-Babai river system in Bardia National Park. The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the Irrawaddy Delta In 1977, four nests in the river Girwa Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, where 909 gharials were published until 2006. In 1978, twelve nests in the Chambal river in National Chambal Sanctuary, where 3776 and 2006 were released gharials included. Newborns are particularly vulnerable to downstream protected areas emptied during the annual monsoon flooding Unlike most crocodiles.

More than 5,000 young gharials were released in very inhospitable habitats in rivers Indian and Nepalese and their future. Gharials are bred in captivity in the National Chambal Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh and in the Gharial Breeding Centre in Nepal, Chitwan National Park, where they. In general, two to three years and may be increased by an average of about one meter, when released In India, they are also in the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Jawaharlal Nehru Biological Park held in Bokaro Steel City, Bangalore Bannerghatta Zoo, Junagadh Zoo and Biological Park Itanagar. The National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka and Singapore zoo keep each breeding pair.

Japanese Nogeyama Zoo has two wives. United States will be held at the Honolulu Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo, San Diego Zoo Farm, National Zoological Park, the San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium and the St. Augustine Alligator. The French crocodile farm La Ferme aux Crocodiles, six young people in May 2000 by the Gharial Breeding Centre in Nepal

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Hyena

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Hyena | Hyenas have relatively short torsos, and are very solid and wolf-like in construction, but a slight hindquarters, high withers and sloping shoulders their significantly down compared to their tails. Hyenas are digitigrade, with the front and hind legs with four digits each and sporting bulging pawpads. How canids, hyenas have short, blunt, non-retractable claws. With the exception of the spotted hyena, hyaenids have striped fur, probably inherited from their ancestors viverrid. Hyenas no baculum. Hyenas an extra pair of ribs canines and their rough tongues like those of cats and viverrids. Males in most hyena species are larger than females, although the spotted hyena is exceptional, because it is the female of the species that transcends and dominates the man. In addition, in contrast to other hyena external genitalia of the female spotted hyena very similar to that of the male.

The strength of the jaws is such that both striped and spotted hyena are listed on dogs kill with a bite to the neck without skin. The secretions are mainly used for marking territory, though both the aardwolf and the striped hyena will spray if they are attacked. When attacked by lions or dogs, and brown striped hyenas will feign death, although the spotted hyena will fiercely defend. The spotted hyena is very vocal, producing a variety of different sounds consisting of screams, grunts, groans, lows, giggles, cries, grunts, groans and laughter. The striped hyena is relatively quiet, the sounds limited to a chattering laugh and cry.

The link between hyenas involves a series of short links with short intervals, unlike canids, usually intervene in a process in copula. Spotted hyena cubs are born almost fully developed, with eyes open and incisors and canines erupt, while unmarked adults. In contrast, striped hyena cubs are born with adult markings, closed eyes and small ears. Hyenas not vomit food for their young male spotted hyenas and have no role in raising their puppies, even though male striped hyenas do. The striped hyena is primarily a scavenger, although sometimes attack and kill a defenseless animal can be overcome, and supplement their diet with fruit.

An aardwolf can eat 300,000 Trinervitermes a single output Spotted hyenas vary in their folkloric and mythological scenes, depending on the ethnic group from which the stories. It is often difficult to know whether spotted hyenas are the specific hyena species present in these stories, particularly in West Africa, as both spotted and striped hyenas are often given the same names. In Tanzania, there is a belief that witches use spotted hyenas as mounts. The Kaguru Tanzania and South Kujamaat Senegal view hyenas as inedible and greedy hermaphrodites. A mythical African tribe called Bouda is known that the members of the house can be transformed into hyenas. In the Near and Middle East, striped hyenas are generally regarded as physical incarnations of jinns. Arab writer Al-Quazweeni (1204-1283) spoke of a tribe of people called Al-Dabeyoun meaning "hyena people".

Al-Doumairy in his writings Hawayan Al-Koubra (1406) wrote that striped hyenas were creatures vampires who attacked people at night and sucked the blood from the neck. He also wrote that hyenas only attacked brave people. Arab folklore tells of how hyenas can victims spellbound with their eyes or sometimes with their pheromones. The image of striped hyenas in Afghanistan, India and Palestine is more varied. Though feared, striped hyenas were also a symbol of love and fertility, leading to numerous varieties of love medicine derived from hyena body parts. Among the Baluch and in northern India, witches or wizards said that striped hyenas night driving. The striped hyena is mentioned in the Bible. The Arabic word for striped hyenas, dhubba, alluded in a valley in Israel known as Shaqq-ud-Diba (meaning "cleft of the hyenas") and Wadi-Abu-Diba (meaning "valley of the hyenas").

The modern Hebrew word for hyena tzebua or zevoa, which literally means "creature of color." Under hyenas, only the spotted hyena and the stripes are known as man-eaters. Hyenas are known to have preyed on humans in prehistory: human hair is found fossil hyena dung from 257,000 years 195000 Some paleontologists believe that competition and predation by cave hyenas in Siberia was a major factor in delaying human colonization of Alaska . Hyenas may occasionally stolen human kills, or entered campsites to drag off the young and weak, just like modern spotted hyenas in Africa. The oldest human remains Alaska coincide with about the same time cave hyenas became extinct, causing some paleontologists to infer that hyena predation was what prevented humans from crossing the Bering Strait before.

Dogs used to capture human behavior can seem fat people to live to develop, hyena attacks on people in South Sudan rose during the second Sudanese civil war, when the human cadavers were available to them. Although spotted hyenas do prey on people in modern times, incidents are rare. However, according SGDRN (Sociedade para a Gestão Desenvolvimento and Reserva do Niassa Mozambique), attacks on people of spotted hyenas are likely to be underestimated. According to hyena expert Dr. Hans Kruuk, man-eating spotted hyenas are usually very large specimens: A pair of man-eating hyenas, responsible for killing 27 people in Mlanje, Malawi in 1962, were weighed at 72 kg (159 lb ) and 77 kg (170 lb) after being hit.

Victims of spotted hyenas tend to be women, children and sick or disabled men: Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the way in 1908-1909 in Uganda, spotted hyenas regular patients of African sleeping sickness slain in their sleep outside in the fields. Spotted hyenas are widely feared in Malawi, where they are known to occasionally attack people at night, especially during the hot season when people sleep outside. Hyena attacks were widely reported in a clear and Phalombe of Malawi, north of Michesi Mountain.

Under normal circumstances, striped hyenas are very shy around people, although they may exhibit bold behavior towards people overnight. In rare cases, striped hyenas preyed on humans. In 1880 a hyena reported to have attacked people, especially children, sleeping over a three year period in the Province Iğdır, with 25 children and 3 adults injured in a year. The attacks have caused local authorities announcing a reward of 100 rubles for killing each hyena. Cases are known in Azerbaijan of striped hyenas killing children sleeping in courtyards during 1930 and 1940. In 1942 a sleeping guard torn in his hut by a hyena in Golyndzhakh. The cases of children taken by hyenas at night are known in the south-east of Turkmenistan Bathyz Nature Reserve. Several attacks have occurred in India in 1962, nine children were believed to have been taken by hyenas in the town of Bhagalpur in Bihar state in a period of six weeks and 19 children under four years were killed by hyenas in Karnataka, Bihar in 1974.

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Cougar

  

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Cougar | Cougars are thin and flexible members of the cat family. Women typically weigh 29 to 64 kg (64 and 141 pounds), averaging 42 kg (93 lbs.) Cougar size of the smallest near the equator, and more in the direction of the poles. The largest recorded cougar was shot in Arizona and 125.5 kg (276 lb) weighed after his colon was removed, indicating that in life, would weigh about 136.2 kg (300 lbs.) Several men puma British Columbia weighed between 86.4 and 95.5 kg (190 lbs 210). Front legs and claws are larger adjustments clutching prey. Cougars can be almost as large as jaguars, but are less muscular and not as strong, where their ranges overlap, the cougar is usually below average. In addition, the jaguar, puma, on average, more than any cat outside the Old World lion and a tiger.

Cougars sometimes voice low hisses, growls and purrs and squeaks and whistles, many of which are similar to domestic cats. Cougar color (hence the Konkolor Latin), but can vary greatly between individuals and even between siblings. Cougars have large paws and proportionally the largest hind legs in the cat family. Cougars can jump 18 feet (5.5 meters) from the ground to the tree and are known to 20 feet (6.1 meters) jump up or down the hill. Although it is not strongly associated with water, swim A successful generalist predator, the cougar will eat any animal can catch, from insects to large ungulates (over 500 kg). The average weight of vertebrate prey (MWVP) are positively correlated (r = 0.875) with puma body weight and inversely correlated (r = -0.836) with food niche width in all of the Americas. The main species of raptors various deer species, particularly in North America, deer, white-tailed deer, moose, elk and even big cats are accepted.

Overview of the North American study found 68% of prey were ungulates, especially deer. Only the Florida Panther showed no change, often prefer wild boars and armadillos research in Yellowstone National Park showed that elk, followed by deer, were the cougar in the primary objectives, the food shared with the gray wolf of the park, with whom the cougar competes for resources. Another study by Winter Kills (November-April) in Alberta showed that ungulates are more than 99% of the cougar diet. Scientist, the production of the individual recognition was observed, as some cougars rarely slain bighorn sheep, while others are highly dependent on the mind. In South American cougar range, the ratio of deer in the diet is reduced. Competition with larger jaguar has been proposed to reduce the size of the prey. Other listed prey species of the cougar include mice, porcupine, and hares.

Although capable of sprinting, the cougar is typically an ambush predator. Puma, the neck of a portion of the smaller prey with a strong bite and momentum of the animal on the floor to break. Cat pulls kill a bookmark, which covers his hands, and returned to feed during the day. Puma women are fiercely protective of their young, and are seen to successfully fight big animals like bears in their defense. Litter size 1-6 cubs, usually two or three. study showed a high degree of mortality among puma farthest from the maternal range trips, often due to conflicts with other cougars (intraspecific competition). Research in New Mexico has shown that "males dispersed significantly farther than females, most are not large spaces, cougar habitat, and probably most responsible for nuclear gene flow between habitat.

Cougars can live up to 20 years in captivity. A male North American cougar, named Scratch, was two months before his 30th birthday when he died in 2007. The causes of death in the wild include disability and disease, competition with other cougars, starvation, accidents, and, where allowed, human hunting. Feline immunodeficiency virus, HIV is endemic, the virus in cats, well adapted to the cougar. Puma has a large collection of wild animals from all countries in America. The range covers 110 degrees latitude north of the Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes. Studies show that the Cougar regions with dense underbrush prefers, but can live with little vegetation in open areas. There have been reports of extensive debate possible colonization of eastern North America. DNA evidence has suggested its presence in eastern North America, while a consolidated map of cougar observations show a large number of reports in the Great Plains of the western half of Eastern Canada. Quebec, nature of services (known locally MRNF) also considers Cougar to be present in the province, after the introduction of the hazard DNA tests confirmed cougar hair in some sites linking Lynx.

There are anecdotal observations Elliot SC Plantation, Maine (north of Monson), New Hampshire, observations were not confirmed in 1997 [66] In 2009, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirmed a cougar sighting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As a general rule, the range of the observations with respect to young puma which can travel great distances to reach those men to adopt the four confirmed cougar kills in Iowa since 2000 involved males. April 14, 2008 the police slain cougar on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. DNA tests were consistent with cougars in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Indiana Department of Natural Resources used motion-sensitive cameras to detect the presence of a cougar in Greene County in southern Indiana, May 7, 2010, to confirm. June 10, 2011, puma observed roaming near Greenwich, Connecticut. When wildlife officials DNA, cougar examined, they concluded that a wild puma in the Black Hills of South Dakota, who walked at least 1,500 miles east of unlimited duration.

While specific state and provincial statistics are often available in North America, much less is known about the cat in the southern range. The total population is estimated at less than 50,000 breeding cougar by the IUCN, with a declining trend. U.S. state-level statistics are often more optimistic, suggesting cougar populations recovered. California has actively sought to protect the cat and a similar number of cougars has been suggested that between 4000 and 6000. Pumapard is a hybrid animal resulting from the union between a puma and a leopard. Hamburg Zoo specimen was the reverse clutch, a black and white photo of an Indian father puma bred female leopard. Lee was born in a female cougar in a couple with a man male leopard or cougar with a woman in a pair of leopard pumapards inherit a form of dwarfism. With the expansion of the human population, cougar goes overlap areas inhabited by humans. Attacks on humans are rare, as cougar prey recognition of learned behavior and they do not recognize humans as prey. Attacks on humans, animals and pets may occur when the cat gets used to people or in a state of severe hunger. The attacks are more common in the spring and summer when the young cougars leave their mothers and search for new areas.

Between 1890 and 1990 in North America, there were reported 53 confirmed attacks on humans, resulting in 48 nonfatal injuries and 10 deaths of humans (the total is greater than 53 because some attacks had more of a victim). In 2004 the number rose to 88 attacks and 20 deaths. In North America, the distribution of attacks is not uniform. Like many predators, cougar may attack if cornered, if a fleeing human stimulates their instinct to chase, or if a person is "playing dead." The status quo can lead to a cougar consider people easy prey. When cougars do attack, they usually use their characteristic neck bite, attempting to position their teeth between the vertebrae and the spinal cord. The same survey showed that most of the attacks have occurred in British Columbia, particularly on Vancouver Island where cougar populations are especially dense. Previous attacks on humans, cougars display abnormal behavior, such as day care, without fear of the people, and the persecution of people.

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Shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Shark | Shark teeth are embedded in the rubber are not directly attached to the jaw, and continually replaced throughout life. Before the simultaneous replacement of a large number, which is observed in the cutter shark Tooth shape depends on the diet of sharks: They feed on mollusks and crustaceans, a dense and flattened teeth are used for crushing, which feed on fish have needle-like teeth for gripping, and those who are lower on larger prey such as mammals teeth to gripping and triangular upper teeth with serrated edges for cutting showed. The teeth of plankton-feeders such as the basking shark are small and non-functional Shark skeletons are very different from those of bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates. Sharks and other cartilaginous fish (skates and rays) have skeletons of cartilage and connective tissue. Rib cages because no sharks, they can easily under their own weight landJaws of sharks, rays are not as, are attached to the skull crushed. 

Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark and the great white shark, two to three layers or more, depending on body size. The jaws of a great white shark can be up to five layers. Most sharks have eight fins. Sharks only drift away from objects directly in front of them because they do not move their fins allow the tail-first directionUnlike bony fish, sharks have a complex dermal corset made of flexible collagenous fibers and arranged as a helical spring surrounding body network. Caudal fin shapes vary considerably between the types of sharks, as a result of evolution in separate environments. Sharks have a heterocercal caudal fin in which the dorsal portion is usually noticeably larger than the ventral. Since the shark dorsal spine is in the part, so that.

Other adaptations help sharks tail to catch prey more directly, such as the use of the thresher shark from its powerful, elongated upper lobe stun fish and squid. Some species, such as nurse sharks, have external barbels that greatly increase their ability to sense prey to. Visibility in the dark water The effectiveness of the tissue varies, with a stronger sharks night adjustments. Sharks have eyelids, but do not blink because the surrounding water cleans their eyes. To protect their eyes some species nictitating membranes. This membrane covers the eyes while hunting and when the shark attacked. The importance of eyes in shark hunting behavior is discussed. Presumably, the shark not to protect their eyes, they were unimportant. The shark vision can change between monocular and stereoscopic at any time. A micro-spectrophotometry study of 17 species of sharks found 10 only rods and no cones in their retinas were them good night vision and makes them color blind.

Sharks seen with the ampoules Lorenzini on the electromagnetic fields that all living things produce. This helps sharks (particularly the hammerhead shark) find prey. The shark has the greatest electrical sensitivity of an animal. Sharks find prey in the sand by detecting the electric fields they produce hidden. Ocean currents moving in the magnetic field of the earth and electric fields that sharks selected for orientation and possibly use navigationUnlike most bony fishes generate sharks K for the show, giving them developed a small number of well-developed young production as opposed to a large number of poor young . Fertility in sharks ranges from 2 to over 100 young per reproductive cycle. Sharks mature slowly relative to many other fish. For example, lemon sharks reach sexual maturity around the age of 13-15.

Shark migration patterns may be even more complex than in birds, with many sharks entire ocean basins. Sharks can be highly social, even in large schools. Cross-species social hierarchies exist. For example, white tip dominate silky sharks of comparable size during feeding. To close when some sharks perform a threat display. This usually consists of exaggerated swimming movements, and can vary in intensity depending on the threat level In general, sharks ("cruise") swim at an average speed of 8 kilometers per hour (5.0 mph) but when feeding or attacking, the average shark speeds can reach upwards of 19 kilometers per hour (12 mph) .

The shortfin mako shark, the fastest shark and one of the fastest fish, can burst at speeds up to 50 kilometers per hour (31 mph). The great white shark is also capable of speed bursts. These exceptions may be due to the warm-blooded or homeothermic, nature of these sharks physiology. Sharks are found in all seas. They generally do not live in freshwater, with a few exceptions such as the bull shark and the river shark which can swim both in seawater and freshwater. The deepest confirmed report of a shark is a Portuguese dogfish at 3,700 meters (12,100 ft).

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Swan

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Swan | Swans are the largest members of the family Anatidae and waterfowl are among the largest flying birds. The largest species, including mute swan, trumpeter swan, whooper swan and reach a length of about 1.5 m (60 inches) and weigh over 15 kg (33 pounds). Compared with the closely related geese are larger and have proportionately larger legs and neck. Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are black and white mix. Australian Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is completely black except for white feathers on its wings, black swans pups are gray in color, and South America black necked Swan has a black throat.

The legs of swans are usually a dark gray-blackish, except for two species of South American pink legs. Bill color varies: four subarctic species have yellow black bills with varying amounts, and all are patterned red and black. Silent and black swan necked Swan have a lump in the draft law on the upper beak Swans are usually found in temperate environments often occur in the tropics. A group of swans is called a wedge or a flock in flight.

A species, swan, was introduced in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Many species are migratory birds, either in whole or in part, so wise. Swan is a partial migrant, residing in areas of Western Europe, but the whole migration pressures in Eastern Europe and Asia. Swan Tundra Swan are all wild and migratory birds, and Trumpeter swans are migratory birds almost exclusively.

Unlike many ducks and geese, the male helps to build their nests. Average egg size (the swan) is 113 × 74 mm, weighing 340 g, up to a size 4-7 clutch, and an incubation period of 34-45 days, except duck whistles they are only where men help ducks incubating eggs. Swans are known to aggressively protect their nests.

Swan is obviously in the southern hemisphere Cygnus (Del Hoyo et al. EDS, Handbook of birds of the World), closest to his habits bent on wearing neck fluffed (not directly) and wings (not color) and that bill color and knob indicate that the closest living relative of the black swan.

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Echidna

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Echidna | Echidnas are small mammals solitary thick hairy spines. Like the platypus of them with electronic sensors fitted, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors in its bill, has the long-beaked echidna only 2,000, and short-beaked echidna, which lives in an arid environment, not more than 400 at the tip of the snout is. Echidnas have a small mouth and a toothless jaw. The short-beaked echidna, the diet consists mainly of ants and termites, while the species typically eat worms and insect larvae Zaglossus Long-beaked echidnas have sharp spines, small in the language, help to capture the prey. Echidna and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes.

To live the wild echidna average at 16 years Male echidnas have a four-headed penis. The heads used are swapped each time the mammal copula Unlike previous studies, the Echidna does enter REM sleep, but only when the ambient temperature 25 ° C (77 ° F).  Molecular clock and fossil data suggest that a distinction has made the echidna platypus 19-48000000 years.

The genus includes three Zaglossus species and species that only of two fossils known, while only one extant species of the genus Tachyglossus is known. Knuckles is abechidna in the video game Sonic the Hedgehog series. Knuckles made his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for Sega Megadrive and Sega Genesis. Echidnas on the back of the Australian 5 cent coin. Millie, an echidna, was a mascot for the Olympic Summer Games 2000th

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Barracuda

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Barracuda | Barracudas are elongated fish, pike, similar in appearance, with a large sharp tooth-like teeth, just like piranha, all different sizes in the greenhouses of their large jaws. They have large heads with a sharp bite in many species. Their gill covers have spines and are covered with small scales. The two dorsal fins are widely separated by the leading fin with five spines, the spine fin having a backbone and nine soft rays. The posterior dorsal fin is as large as the anal fin is located above it. The pectoral fins are placed low on the sides. Their swim bladder is large.

Barracuda live mainly in the oceans, but some species like the Great Barracuda live in brackish water. Some species grow quite large, such as the European barracuda, barracouta or SPET (S. Sphyraena), located in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific barracuda, or Picuda becuna (S. Picuda), ranging along the Atlantic coast of tropical America from North Carolina to Brazil and to reach Bermuda. Other species of barracudas are found all over the world. Examples include the California Barracuda (S. argentea), extending from Puget Sound to the south of Cabo San Lucas, the Indian barracuda (S. jello) and the black-finned or Commerson's barracuda (S. commersoni) from the seas of 'India and the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.

Barracuda are voracious, opportunistic predators rely on surprise and short bursts of speed (up to 27 mph (43 km / h)) to overcome their prey. Barracuda hunt mainly on fish (some as big as themselves). They kill and consume larger prey to tear pieces of meat. Like sharks, barracudas, some species are known to be dangerous for swimmers. Barracuda may confuse things that sparkle and shine of the prey. Hand Feeding or tap large barracuda generally be avoided.  Barracuda are popular, both as food and game fish. Larger species, such as the Great Barracuda, are involved in cases of food poisoning from ciguatera.

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Baboon

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Baboon | All baboons have long dog like muzzles, heavy, powerful jaws with sharp canine teeth, close-set eyes, thick fur except on their muzzle, short tail and rough spots on the buttocks protruding, called ischial callosities. In all species of baboon is pronounced sexual dimorphism, usually in size, but also sometimes in color or canine development. Hamadryas baboons species males also have a large white mane. The large males are often faced with flashing eyes, grinning, yawning, making gestures, and chase the intruder / predator.

Most baboons live in hierarchical troops. Structure within the troop varies considerably between Hamadryas Baboons and the remaining species, sometimes collectively referred to as savanna baboons. Hamadryas baboons are often in large groups composed of several smaller harems (one male with four or two females), in which women are recruited from other parts of the troop, while still too young to reproduce. Other species of baboon have a more promiscuous structure with a strict dominance hierarchy based on the maternal line. Hamadryas baboon group typically include a young man, but will not attempt to mate with females unless the older male is removed.

Baboons can determine from vocal exchanges that dominance relationships are between individuals. When a confrontation occurs between different families or when a lower-ranking baboon takes the offensive, baboons show more interest in the exchange that trade between members of a family or a baboon takes the offensive when older. The collective noun for baboons is commonly troop. Hamadryas baboons harem of men jealously guard their wives, to the point of seizing and biting women when they wander too far. Despite this, some men plundered the harem of women. Visual threats are usually accompanied by these aggressive fights.

In many species, baboons children are taken hostage by men during the fighting. Baboon mating behavior varies greatly depending on the social structure of the troop. In mixed groups of savanna baboons, each male can mate with a female. The order of mating in males depends in part on their social rank and fights between males are not unusual. To meet this friendship can help groom the female, help care for her children, or child support. The risk is great that these young people are their offspring. Some women clearly prefer such friendly males as mates. The young baboon weighs approximately one kilogram and has a black skin, she was born.Baboon males leave their birth group, usually before they reach sexual maturity, while females are philopatric and remain in the same group for life.

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Heron

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Heron | Heron medium and large birds with long legs and neck. The smaller species are generally considered to be Little Bittern, which can measure 30 cm (12 inches) in length, although all species of the genus Ixobrychus small overlap, and many vary in size. The main types of cranes Goliath Heron, who resists the 152 cm (60 inches) in height. The neck is more per day than the night heron and egret bittern. The legs are long and strong almost all kinds of free pens to the bottom of the leg (with the exception of Heron Zigzag). Legs herons have long slender fingers with three loved facing forward and one back. It can vary from very thin, as in the Agami Heron, the thickness, as in the gray heron. The bill is the most unusual property of boat-bill Heron, which has a wide thick bill.

The wings are wide and long, from 10-11 primary flight feathers (Boat-bills Heron has only nine), middle tail feathers 15-20 and 12 (10 bitterns). Feathers feathers herons and soft, usually blue, black, brown, gray or white, and can often be surprisingly difficult. Among the day herons little sexual dimorphism in plumage (except for the pond, herons), the differences between the sexes generally night herons and bitterns minors. Many species are in the form of different colors. In the Pacific Reef Heron, various forms of color, as dark and light, and the proportion of each morph varies geographically. Herons are an ordinary family, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Almost all kinds of water-related, they are essentially pool water birds that feed on the shores of lakes, rivers, swamps, lakes and seas.

Crane family is very mobile, and most species are at least partially migration. Migration usually occurs at night, usually by individuals or in small groups Herons and bitterns predators. Members of this family are mainly associated with damp and water, and diverse supply of water living victims. The diet includes a wide range of aquatic animals, including fish, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic insects. Individual species can be broad or specialize in certain types of prey, such as yellow crowned night herons, which specializes in crustaceans, especially crabs. Many species also opportunistically with larger prey, including birds and bird eggs, and less likely to fall.

Some species of herons, egrets, both small and gray herons have been reported with bait to attract prey within reach. Herons can use existing elements or add elements active in the water to attract fish. Three species, Heron Black, Heron and whistles, such as cattle egret is less tied to the aquatic environment and can eat away from the water. Most days, herons and egrets are colonial night or in part, depending on the circumstances, while bitterns and tiger herons are mainly solitary nesters. Colonies may contain several species, as well as other species of waterfowl. In a study of small herons and cattle egrets in India, most of the colonies studied contained both species. Nesting is seasonal in temperate species of tropical species may be seasonal in nature (often coinciding with the rainy season) or during the year.

Dating often participates in the nest. The exception is the Boat-bill Heron, who joins from the nest. After pairing, the pair continue to build their nests in almost all species, albeit in a smaller and less bittern bittern is only male on the nest. Some ornithologists have reported observing herons join friends are powerless, it is looking for sexual satisfaction elsewhere. Heron nests "are usually found near or over water. Typically, herons lay from three to seven eggs. Clutches great bitterns, as reported in smaller, more rarely, some of the biggest days of herons, and one egg clutches are some of the tiger herons. Offspring will vary depending on the latitude within species, individuals in more temperate climates chicken eggs in the tropics.

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