Giraffe

 

Animal Unique | Giraffe | Giraffe is one of the largest living land animal and the largest ruminant. The specific name refers to the camel-like face, and the patches of color on his coat, which is a vague resemblance to a leopard spots of wear. Giraffes roam over large areas of bush and savannah areas, living often in semi-desert areas where they spend most of their water from their food. The giraffe's distribution range extends from Chad in the north to South Africa in the south, and Niger in the west to Somalia in the east. 

 

Giraffes are one of the world's tallest mammals. They are known for their long necks, long legs, and mottled patterns. Despite his long neck and legs, the giraffe's body is relatively short. Located on both sides of the head, the giraffe's big, bulging eyes give good visibility to all sides of his great height. Giraffes see in color and their senses of hearing and smell are also sharp. The animal can close his muscular nostrils to protect against sand storms and ants. The jacket has dark stains or spots separated by the light hair. Each individual giraffe has a unique coat pattern. The coat pattern serves as camouflage, allowing it to blend into the light and shadow patterns of savanna woodlands. 

 

Male giraffes are larger than females. And the front legs of a giraffe are slightly longer than its hind legs. The radius and ulna of the front legs are articulated by the carpus, which, although structurally similar to the human wrist, acts as a knee. Giraffes small "horns" or knobs on the top of their heads that grow to about five inches long. These buttons are used to protect the head in fights. Woman of the horns are thin and tufted, male's are thick and bald on top. A giraffe has only two corridors: walking and galloping. Is run by the movement of the legs on one side of the body at the same time, then the same on the other side. When galloping, the hind legs move around the front legs for the last step forward and the tail will curl. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Mammalia
Order:     Artiodactyla
Family:     Giraffidae
Genus:     Giraffa
Species:     G. camelopardalis

Giraffe has a very long neck. This extension is largely after birth, as giraffe mothers would have a difficult time with the birth of young neck the same proportions as adults. Giraffe head and neck are held by large muscles and nuchal ligament, which are anchored by the long dorsal spines on the anterior thoracic vertebrae, allowing the animal a bump. Although usually quiet, giraffes are not voiceless as the common myth leads us to believe, but instead can produce snorting or moaning noises, particularly when there is danger. They have a good sense of smell, hearing and good vision allowing them to see road miles. 

 

Like camels, they are able to go long without a drink and usually every 2-3 days. In order to get a drink, they splay their front legs to reach the water. The same applies to the okapi, refute the idea that the giraffe's extra long neck and legs are the reason that they should in this way to drink. Female giraffes typically give birth to one calf after a fifteen months gestation. During the first week of his life, the mother carefully guards her calf. Young giraffes are very vulnerable and can not defend themselves. While mothers feed, the young are kept in small nursery groups. Male giraffes use their necks as weapons in the fight, a behavior known as "necking". A necking duel can last over half an hour, depending on how good agreement with the fighters. The winner will mount his opponent in a show of dominance. 

 

Their long necks help giraffes eat leaves from tall trees, typically acacia trees. If necessary, giraffes can go for a few days without water. Instead of drinking, giraffes stay hydrated by the moisture from the leaves. However, they can fall prey to lions and regularly prey for them. Nile crocodiles can also be a threat to the giraffe as they stoop to drink. Calves are much more vulnerable than adults, and are also preyed upon by leopards, spotted hyenas and wild dogs. Some parasites feed on giraffes. They are often hosts for ticks, especially in the area around the genitals, which has thinner skin than other areas. Giraffes may rely on red-billed and yellow-billed oxpeckers to clean them of ticks and to warn them of danger. Giraffes host numerous species of internal parasites and are prone to various diseases. 

 

Giraffes have the same number of bones in their neck as humans do. They are one of the few animals born with horns. A giraffe is one of the few animals that uses mostly its front legs as it runs. And Giraffe have 4 stomachs, like cows. Giraffes are hunted for their meat, fur and tail. The tail is praised for good luck bracelets, fly whisks and string for sewing beads. The coat is used for the shield coatings. Habitat destruction and fragmentation are also threats to giraffe populations.

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Killer Whale

Animal Unique | Killer Whale | Killer whale, commonly referred to as the orca, and less often as the Blackfish is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family. Besides humans, Killer whales are the most widespread mammal. Although Killer whale can be found in both open ocean and coastal waters, they primarily inhabit the continental shelf. In cold water areas, their distribution is limited by seasonal pack ice. Killer whales are found in all oceans and most seas. Due to their enormous range, number and density estimates are difficult to compare distributional effects, but they clearly prefer higher latitudes than pelagic and coastal environments.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Mammalia
Order:     Cetacea
Suborder:     Odontoceti
Family:     Delphinidae
Genus:     Orcinus, Fitzinger, 1860
Species:     O. orca

Killer whales have a distinctive black back, white chest and sides and a white patch above and behind the eye. Calves are born with a yellow or orange tint, which fades to white. Killer whales have a heavy and robust body and a large dorsal fin. Behind the fin, they have a dark gray "saddle patch" on the back. Antarctic Killer whales may have pale gray to nearly white backs. Adult Killer whales are very distinctive and are not usually confused with another marine animal.

The Killer whale's teeth are very strong and covered with glaze. His jaws are powerful gripping device, such as the upper teeth fall into the space between the lower teeth when the mouth is closed. The front teeth are slightly inclined forward and outward, allowing the killer to withstand vigorous shaking movements of his prey, while the middle and back teeth hold it firmly in place. Killer whales are the largest remaining members of the dolphin family. The Killer whale has large size and strength make it the fastest marine mammals.

Killer whales are often seen traveling in pods of between 3-25 individuals, usually including at least one great man. The pectoral fins are large and round, like paddles. Males have significantly larger pectoral fins than females.the male dorsal fin is more than twice the size of the female and is more of a triangular shape, a tall, elongated isosceles triangle, while hair is shorter and more curved. Males and females have different patterns of black and white skin in the genital area. Sexual dimorphism is also evident in the skull, adult males have a lower jaw longer than women, and have greater occipital.

Individual Killer whales can often be identified by the dorsal fin and saddle patch. Variations such as nicks, scratches and tears on the dorsal fin and the pattern of white or gray patch are unique in the saddle. White Killer whales rarely occur under normal killer whales, but are rare. Killer whales have good eyes above and below the water, excellent hearing and a good sense of touch. They can detect the location and characteristics of birds of prey and other objects in their environment by emitting clicking and listening to echoes.

Fish, squid, seals, sea lions, walruses, birds, turtles, otters, penguins, cetaceans (both mysticete and odontocete), polar bears have, reptiles, and even a moose all found in the stomach contents of killer whales. And, as their common name suggests, are the remains of other orcas also found in the stomachs of these "Killer whales." It is uncertain why these animals are cannibalistic. Like packs of wolves or lions, Killer whales often hunt together in pods for food. They work together to herd prey into a small space to attack. When hunting a large whale, a pod of Killer whales attacking from different angles.

Killer whales are very advanced and effective predators. Twenty-two Killer whales have been recorded as prey, to examine the stomach contents, scars on the body of the prey, or food intake. Groups even bigger attack cetaceans such as minke whales, gray whales, sperm whales or blue whales and rare. Hunting large whales usually takes several hours. Killer whales generally choose instead to attack young or weak animals. However, a group of five or more attacks a healthy adult. When hunting a young whale, a group chases her and her mother, until they wear out.

Like all whales, Killer whales are highly dependent on underwater sound for orientation, feeding, and communication. Killer whales produce three categories of sounds: clicks, whistles and pulsed calls. Clicks are believed to primarily be used for navigation and discriminating prey and other objects in the environment, but are often heard during social interactions. Killer whales are the second heaviest brains among mammals. They can be trained in captivity and are often described as intelligent, although defining and measuring "intelligence" is difficult in a species environment and behavioral strategies are very different from that of humans.  Although, it is a predator, no attack on a human by an  Killer whale ever recorded was in the wild.  Killer whale are not considered an endangered species in general.

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Blue Whale

 

Animal Unique | Blue Whale | Blue whale is a mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. It is the largest known animal ever existed. Blue whales are found in all oceans of the world. They mate and calve in tropical-to temperate waters in winter and feed in polar waters during the summer months. Blue whales in the northern hemisphere north to Arctic waters to feed, Blue whales in the Southern Hemisphere south to Antarctica to feed. Almost all the southern hemisphere population can be found in the summer enter land in the Antarctic. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Mammalia
Order:     Cetacea
Suborder:     Mysticeti
Family:     Balaenopteridae
Genus:     Balaenoptera
Species:     B. musculus
Binomial name       : Balaenoptera musculus

The Blue whale is the largest mammal, possibly the largest animal ever to inhabit Planet Ocean. The body is long, slightly tapered, and streamlined, with the head making less than one fourth of the total body length. The rostrum is broad and flat and almost U-shaped, with a single ridge that extends just forward of the blowholes to the tip of the snout. The holes are contained in a large, raised "splash guard", and the impact is long and straight. 

 

The Blue whale is blue-gray in color, often with lighter gray spots on a dark background or dark spots on a light background. The underside of the flippers, a lighter color or white, while the abdomen (upper) side of the fluke is dark. The ventral side of the body is often yellow-green in color, because blue whales graze on microorganisms called diatoms in the cold waters of Antarctica, North Pacific and North Atlantic.

The dorsal fin is small and triangular-shaped to sickle-shape, and is three-quarters of the way back on the body. The flippers are tapered and relatively short, about 12% of the total body length. The fluke is broad and triangular. The back is smooth with a slight median notch. Although they may individually or in small groups to find, it is more common to see Blue whales in pairs. They are sometimes seen in larger groups and loosely defined concentrations of 50-60 were observed.

Like humpbacks, Blue whale also sing or call. The reason for vocalization is unknown. But there are six possible reasons, the maintenance of inter-individual distance, species and individual recognition, contextual information transmission (eg power, alarm, courtship), maintenance of social organization (eg contact conversations between women and men), the location of topographic features and location of prey resources.

Blue whales are the largest predator ever inhabit this planet, although it is thought that almost exclusively feed on small, shrimp-like creatures called krill or euphausiids. A baleen whale, it has a series of 260-400 fringed overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw where teeth would otherwise be. These plates consist of a fingernail-like material called keratin that frays out into fine hairs on the ends of the mouth near the tongue. During feeding, large amounts of water and food included in the mouth and the pleated grooves in the throat greatly expand its capabilities. As the mouth closes, the water is expelled through the baleen, which trap the food near the tongue to be swallowed.

Blue whales are not easy to capture or kill. Their speed and power meant they were rarely pursued by early whalers who instead targeted sperm and right whales. Because of their sheer size, strength and speed, adult Blue whales have virtually no natural enemies. Blue whales may be injured, sometimes fatally, after colliding with ships, but also be caught or entangled in fishing gear.After that Blue whales became so scarce that the whalers turned to other species. In 1966, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned all hunt Blue whales and gave them worldwide protection.

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Mola Mola

 

Animal Unique | Mola Mola | Mola Mola or Ocean Sunfish found in most of the tropical and temperate waters of the world. They are usually found along the coastal areas where the wrasse and gulls can free them of parasites. The species is native to tropical and temperate waters worldwide. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and the main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as great as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended. Mola Mola wave anal and dorsal fins in unison from left to right to move, rotate them slightly as they wave. The pectoral fins continuous wave, but are probably as stabilizers. The tail is used as a rudder. To steer, the Mola Mola will spray a powerful jet of water from his mouth or gills. They are lazy swimmers, sometimes let the current carry them. Occasionally, the current carry them in cold water, where they die. When needed, they can dart through the water. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Actinopterygii
Order:     Tetraodontiformes
Family:     Molidae
Genus:     Mola
Species:     M. mola 

The caudal fin of the Mola Mola is replaced by a clavus rounded, allowing the body different truncated forms. The pectoral fins are small, fan-shaped, while the dorsal and anal fins are extended, so the fish is often as great as it is long this structure is formed by the convergence of dorsal and anal fins. The smooth-denticled clavus retains twelve rays, and ends in a rounded number of ossicles. Without a real tail to provide thrust for forward movement and equipped with only small pectoral fins, Mola Mola relies on his long, thin dorsal and anal fins for propulsion, driving itself forward by moving these fins from side to side. 

 

Mola Mola often swim to the surface, and their high dorsal fins are sometimes confused with that of sharks. Sharks, like most fish swim by moving the tail sideways while the dorsal fin is stopped. The Mola Mola, on the other hand, dorsal and anal fins are swings in a characteristic wiggle movement that can be used to identify it. Adult Mola Mola ranging from brown to silver-gray or white, with a variety of mottled skin patterns, some of these region-specific patterns. Color is often darker at the back, fading to a lighter shade ventral as a form of counter-shading camouflage.  

 

Mola Mola also shows the possibility of skin color varies from light to dark, especially when under attack. More than 40 species of parasites on the skin and internally, to motivate the fish to seek help in a number waysIn the tropics, the mola elicits the help of reef fish cleaning. By tan on its side on the surface, the Mola Mola also allows birds to feed on parasites from the skin. The diet consists mainly of Mola Mola of various jellyfish. It also uses nitric, squid, crustaceans, small fish, fish larvae, and eel grass. The food is bad food, so the sunfish to a large amount of food consumed to maintain its size. The Mola Mola can pull in and spitting out water through its mouth to tear small soft-bodied prey. The teeth are fused into a beak-like structure, making it harder to break organisms, and pharynx in the throat teeth grinding food into smaller pieces before moving on to the stomach. 

 

Mola Mola have few enemies. They are attacked by great white sharks, killer whales and sea lions. Sea lions will fiercely attack them, throw them in the air like a Frisbee. Man is another enemy. Hunting mainly Mola Mola for sport, but this can be difficult if the skin is as hard a Manchester gun even bother to penetrate it. They are eaten in Europe and Japan and their liver oil is of some importance, but they have never been commercially hunted. Their tough skin is covered with parasites. Gulls, wrasse, fish and other rid them of external parasites.

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Marine Angelfish

Animal Unique | Marine Angelfish | Marine angelfish are perciform fish of the family Pomacanthidae. Marine angelfish is found only in the ocean, never in fresh or brackish environments. They can be found on the shallow reefs in the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and mostly western Pacific Ocean. The family consists of seven genera and about 86 species. They should not be confused with the freshwater angelfish, tropical Cichlids of the Amazon basin. Many of the species are popular among marine aquarists. Some of the largest species are sold as food fish, but they are linked to ciguatera poisoning.

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Actinopterygii
Subclass:     Neopterygii
Infraclass:     Teleostei
Order:     Perciformes
Family:     Pomacanthidae
 
The Marine angelfish is easily recognized by the strongly compressed body. In many instances, there is an elongated extension to the rear edge of the soft dorsal and anal fins. The caudal fin is rounded or crescent-shaped. The mouth is small and relatively large pectoral fins. A majority of the species can be about 20-30 cm long as adults. The largest species of marine angelfish, the Gray angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus), which can be 60 cm long. The smallest Marine angelfish are found in the genus Centropyge; these fish no more than 15 cm (6 inches) in length.

Marine angelfish are known for their distinctive color. In many species, the color will change as a young adult to adult fish. The color shifts are also believed to be linked to the social rank of each individual fish. Marine angelfish are pelagic and brothers do not guard their offspring. All species where breeding habits have been examined appear to be protogynous hermaphrodites. Some species form pairs, while others live in harems consisting of one male and several females. If the man is removed from the harem, one of the females into a male fish.

Some species are solitary in nature and form highly territorial pairs involved, other forms harems with a single dominant male with several females. As a youth, some kinds of life as a cleaner fish racks. As brothers pelagic, Marine angelfish release many tiny buoyant eggs into the water which then form part of the plankton. The eggs float freely with the currents until hatching, a large number of victims of plankton eaters. 

 

During breeding, the Marine angelfish woman, a large number of small eggs introduced into the water and the male will fertilize them. The eggs are buoyant and will mix with the plankton and follow the currents of the sea. Many feed on sponge and just wrapped, and adults can be destructive to a reef. There are formulas prepared Marine angelfish with a sponge, but it can often be difficult to get an angel to accept new foods. But once an Marine angelfish is feeding can live for many years. One example is the aquarium in Nancy, France, which has successfully preserved multiple copies of Marine angelfish more than 20 years.

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