Thursday, January 31, 2013

Arctic hare



Arctic hares are popularly known as polar rabbits. It has short and can stand up taller. It has thick white fur that change color with season, their color changes blue-gray in spring season. And in winter it has white fur with long hair. Their fur change in grayish brown in summer season. They used small ear to keep warm in cold winters. Their weight of feet is heavy as compare to other rabbit. Their legs are like having snowshoes. Snowshoes makes them to stay on top of the snow. Due to the thick fur coat they consume heat from the body. They dig holes under the snow to keep warm and to sleep. We can find them in a large group up to thousands of individuals. If they are threatened by enemies, then they scatter and run in all the direction. Arctic hares are fast and can bound at speeds of up to 60 kilo meters as hour. Their enemies include Arctic wolf, Arctic Fox, and Ermine. Females gives birth four to eight leverents (baby). They are darken than their parents and the fur is blackish. They are about 17 to 28 inches long and 7 kilos weight.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Arctic Foxes

 On the Northern Hemisphere these Arctic foxes are found. They are also known as Polar foxes.They are smaller with round ears and large eyes. They have warmest fur just live polar bear and Arctic wolf. These foxes are not endangered worldwide. According to the WWW, there are thousand of Arctic foxes left in the world.
Arctic foxes are on white or gray-blue in color due to the cold environment. Their long fur that changes color with the season for comouflage. On the winter the long hair are in white color and in summer they change into brownish grey. These Arctic foxes have sharp teeth with sharp and curve claws. They have short legs with a log bushy tail. Females foxes give birth to around six to nineteen pups. The new born are helpless and blind. The Young foxes leave the den after the 14 to 15 weeks their born.
Their size is only 10 to 12 inches in height and a 2 to 5 kilos weight. The feed the birds, eggs, small mammals and fish. They are mainly found in North America, Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia and Siberia. They usually lives up to 15 years age.

Spring Hares



We can find the spring hares across the South eastern Africa. They are not a actually hare but they look like a kangaroo because they have long hind legs and shorter front legs with long tail. they have a head like rabbit. They can jump up to 2 meters in a single jump. These animals are very clever, with a keen sense of sight, smell and hearing. they can easily hear the coming sound from earth. Spring hares are silent animals but in danger they make the noise. They live inside the tunnels and burrow. Young Spring hares get the care of their mother until they are seven weeks old, after which they leave to make their own burrows. The name leveret is called to the young\baby of a Spring hare. The female are called 'doe' and male are called 'jack'. The group of Spring hare is called the 'band' or 'down'. Spring hares has only 14 to 18 inches height and 3 kilos weight. On the upper body reddish brown to pale grey color are found, The lower body color has orange to white as given in the picture. They have large eyes and ears While searching the food and water they travel 5 to 12 miles in night

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Endanger Scarlet Macaw




The Scarlet Macaw is a beautiful and colorful bird just like parrot. It is mainly found in the Mexico and southern Brazil. It is about 90 centimeters in length with bright red with blue and yellow wings, blue and red tail shows the unique feature of Scarlet Macaw. It has a white face with big, sickle-shaped beaks. Its feet are strong and can able to grasp the limbs of a tree very firmly. If we found the adult Macaw then we can see the tail is more than two feet long.Scarlet Macaws are famous for its ability in mimicking and imitating sounds made by the human voice as well as perform tricks. Both the male and females look alike. Abundant fruits and nuts are favorite food of it in the tropical forests which is its habitat. It cracks open the nuts by using its extremely powerful beak and uses its blunt tongue to extract the nut meat.To make a piece of fruit beak are uses to cut out. Even it eats insects and worms. Macaw do not have feathers on its face.  It usually travels in a large flock. It is easily live up to 30 years but if they are captive that number can grow up to 75 years. It builds its nest in holes in trees or in between rocks.
 Their eyes can let you know if they are old or young, if their eyes is black then they are young and if they have yellow eyes they are older. This bird has become endangered due to the its colorful feathers in fashion in earlier years. Demand has not diminished until now as the young are taken from their nests for pets by poachers. So due to these reason Scarlet Macaw's population is diminishing. Law has been made in most of the countries where the Scarlet Macaw can found.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Endanger Peregrine Falcon




Peregrine Falcons are birds just like an eagle which were once found every part of the world but now they are rare almost everywhere. They are strong and fast and fly to tremendous speeds. They can dive and clench their victims with their strong legs and nail and kill them on the. In the 18th and the 19th century, they are captured and trained to hunt weapons to kill small prey. 
Their nest in between rock edges high on cliffs and usually near water where prey are found. They takes smaller birds, ducks and fish on eating. They lay eggs one to four at a time.
The numbers of Peregrine Falcons have diminishing by the use of poisonous chemicals such as DDT found in their food chain. Their food, for example fish, consume poisonous substances in their food and these fish are contaminated. In turn, the fish are eaten by the falcons and the poisonous substances are passed down to the falcon's body. These chemicals affect their reproductive organs and cause the shells of their eggs to become thin and brittle. These eggs are easily broken when the parents sit on them and the eggs are destroyed. Peregrine Falcon's are endanger due to the destruction of their habitat by human activities. They are also hunted for sport. In efforts to increase their population, release them into areas where they have become extinct have been undertaken.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Endanger Takahe



The Takahe is a flightless bird found in New Zealand only . In 1800's it was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered 1948 on South Island in several remote valleys. The Tahake, is a unique bird which is a largest living member of the whole rail family. They are about 60 to 65 centimeter lenght and around 2-3 kg of weigh. It has a colorful combination of blue colors and copper-green with large red bill and we can see the red shield in the forehead of takahe. It feeds seeds from grasses. It nests on the ground and lays two eggs with black blotches. The young are black in colour with downy feathers. Takahes are endangered due to the destruction of habitat for agriculture and construction of buildings, roads, and dams. They are hunted by animals in the remote valleys of New zealand . The Takahe, being flightless and unable to fly away when danger appear they are quickly destroyed, just like the Dodo Bird.
  

Endanger Wild Asses



Equus asinus an African Wild Asses Equidae family are often referred to as the true asses and the domesticated. They are mainly found on the plains of Africa and travels in groups. The asses are small, short, sturdy animals of from three to five feet at shoulder height. They have smooth coat is a light grey to fawn colour, fading quickly to white on the undersides and legs. The ears are large with black margins. They are very swift runners and are able to inhabit acrid regions as they have become well adapted to suit the harsh deserts in which they live in. The asses are very territorial. There is a very strong fight between the females and the foals. The herds are formed when several asses come together casually. The tail terminated with a black brush. They are listed on  endangered because of the interbreeding between them and other species and cause the wild asses descendants to become fewer and soon vanish. Even due to the Illegal hunting and poaching for sport they are on endangered.

 General Characteristics
Body Length200 cm / 6.6 ft. 
Shoulder Height: 125-145 cm / 4.2-5.5 ft. 
Tail Length42 cm / 17 in. 
Weight275 kg / 605 lb.