Bison is the symbolic animal of the Great Plains are often incorrectly called buffalo. Bison is a mighty beast and the toughest in North America. When standing, high bison about 1.5 to 2 meters measured from the shoulders down and weight bison can reach more than one ton ..

Bison horns can grow to 61 cm long. And despite his size is very large, they are among the animals that can run fast. There are times when they can move at a speed of 65 km / h.

Bison are herbivores. Their main foods include grasses, shrubs, and twigs. Although they are plant-eating animals, but they are one of the grazing animals that ought to be wary of.

Bison female (cow) and bison male (bull) usually live in small groups separate, and will come together in a very large herd during the mating season. Bison males will fight for females. But the fight was very rare to hurt each other.

Pregnant female bison period is 9 months. And in one delivery will be born one bison calves.

In the past, the population of bison in the Great Plains and North America are very abundant. However, during the 19th century, about 50 million bison were killed to eat meat, or simply to exercise. Until finally the number of bison only lived hundreds. But this time it looks like the number of bison continues to improve. There are about 200,000 head of bison that lived and bred for their meat.

Baboon is a type of mammal or mammal, omnivorous prey status or eater of everything, the average life span in the wild reaches the age of 30. The size of head and body length of about 20-34 inches (60-86 cm), the average length of tail 16 -23 inches (41-58 cm), weight reaches 33-82 lbs (22-37 kg). They live in groups called troops (troop).

Do you know? Baboons use at least ten different vocalizations and unique sound to communicate with other members of their forces.

Baboons generally prefer savanna (grasslands interspersed with trees) and semi-arid habitats, although some of them living in tropical rainforests.

Unlike monkeys in general, legs and arms baboon may not hold and the tail can not be gripped. But they can climb trees with agile to sleep, eat, or see the sights around. They spent more time in the field.

Baboon are opportunistic eaters, they liked the plant so that it becomes destructive pests of agriculture in Africa. They eat fruits, grasses, seeds, bark, and roots, but also have a taste for eating meat. They eat birds, mice, and even large mammals are still young, like antelope and sheep.

Four species of baboon (ie, chacma, olive, yellow, and Guinea) is known as the savannah baboon. These animals form a great army and consist of dozens or even hundreds of baboons, governed by a complex hierarchy dazzling scientists. Males showed physical strength to repel rivals who dare to approach and other team members to spend time with each other for hours to clean up fleas and dead skin.

Fifth species, hamadryas baboon, they live in the hills along the Red Sea coast of Africa and Arabia. Baboons spread on cliffs there green during the day and night they regrouped in smaller groups.

Kangaroos or kangaroo is one of the mammals that have pouch (marsupial). Is relatively typical animal animals australia. The word kangaroo taken from aboriginal language that is gangguru.

Origin of name kangaroo has a unique story. On one day, the American origin of the English sailors landed in Australia. The sailor then see an animal that is very unique, marsupial. The sailor then ask questions on the aborigines, indigenous australia there.

Seamen ask the question, what animal is that? Answered, kang-ga-roo. Kanggaroo sailors assumed that the name of the animal. So they named the animal kanggaroo, Behold, the aboriginal people say, I do not know!

Various species of kangaroos

There are three species of kangaroo, namely:

Habitat Kangaroos

Kangaroos have two hind legs are very strong, large paw designed to jump. Regular kangaroo jump with two feet to a speed of 20-25 km / h. However, they can jump up to speed reaches 70 km / h. Kangaroo life expectancy of approximately 9-18 years. Although sometimes there are kangaroos that can survive up to 28 years ..

If we call this kangaroo animal must be identified with their home country, Australia. But did you know that these animals not only have our neighboring country australia. Indonesia also has a place where these animals live. Such as, the area where the marsupials that live at one with nature beautiful.

Until now there are approximately ten types of kangaroos in the Indo-Pacific locations. Half in Indonesia. Moreover, among them newly discovered type. Mbaiso tree kangaroo (dendrolagus mbaiso) is found at the location of the sub-alpine forest of Papua. Type the others are ornamental tree kangaroo (denrolagus goodfellowi), tree kangaroos ndomea (dendrolagus dorianus), tree kangaroos nemena (d. Ursinus), as well as tree kangaroos wakera (dendrolagus inustus). Form and type of animal is naturally not much difference. Just are not the same size. Kangaroos are marsupials strange animals and strange. Similar faced deer, way to step back foot jump and has a size greater than the 2nd front legs.

Population Kangaroos

The group is also used to live among the dense jungle and undergrowth. A form of tree kangaroo tail is rather long and round and hairy from the base to the tip of its tail, but form a more pointed snout of muzzle form kangaroo land. In the land of kangaroos 2nd front legs plus smaller than the hind legs, tail tapered at the ends and not hairy. Snout not too pointy and not hairy like the tree kangaroo. Then smaller claws. Perhaps this is in accordance with needs that do not need to hold on to branches.

Hamsters are mammals including rodents families who have a variety of species and almost in every country. Hamsters are often used as laboratory animals (due to their rapid reproduction) along with mice and other rodents.

The characteristics of a hamster is to have a body fat, short-tailed, bottom hamster white to gray and black, woolly with coat color that varies depending on the species of hamsters, there fur hamster solid color (one color) as black, gray, white, brown, yellow (gold), mocha, and some are colored striped (2 color) white as black, white, gray, and white chocolate.

Most species have a hamster cheek pouch useful to bring food into burrows / nests they are to be stored or dumped. The word 'hamster' comes from the German word 'hamstern' which means 'hoard'.

Hamster coming from northern areas namely central Europe to Siberia, Mongolia and northern China to Korea, and also from the southern regions, namely from Syria to Pakistan.

They used to breed on the border of the desert, the dunes and at the foot of the mountain, lowland bush and rocky, in the valley the air stream, vast grasslands, and there are some also live in the fields planting.

Hamsters have a few species, such as hamsters Europe, Gansu, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Campbell, Kam, Armenia, Siberia (Russia), Korea, Ladak (Tibet), Mongolia, Roborovski, Romania, Sokolov, Syria (hamster gold), China, and Turkey.

The size of the hamster there are small and large depending on the type / species. For a small hamster or often called dwarf hamster (dwarf) has a body length of 5 cm to 10 cm, while the big hamster measuring 10 cm to 18 cm.

You know the animals Pangolin? Yes maybe the animal is a little strange to hear, but there are also some people who have know about the life of the animal. Pangolin is one animal that is categorized as a unique animal because it has a characteristic that is different from other animals in general.

Actually, these animals are mammals of the family Manidae which are only a few or only some of which can be found in Indonesia. This is what makes animals Pangolin well as rare animals.

Actually, in the animal world itself is composed of eight pangolin species widely spread in Africa and Asia. Only the number of animals is not too much because the pattern of the breed are few and too many threats from outside that of humans.

Many animals Pangolin are hunted illegally for later resale to other countries as home decoration or other purposes. This makes the presence of these animals are threatened by extinction. Pangolin animals can be sold traded with a fairly even so high that many people are happy hunting.

The reason people want to get these animals because Pangolin has some unique facts of his life. Here the unique facts of the pangolin.

Tringgiling has a body size medium to large depending on how long the life of these animals survive. Almost like an animal porcupine, pangolin also have skin prickly however, only the measure is just different.

If animals hedgehogs have small size and sharp spines on different skin with Pangolin the size of spines on the skin that is greater and also not terlau sharp that people more often call like scaly. Pangolin scales on the skin of the animals closer together with each other so as to cover the entire section body. Weight pangolin scales capable of achieving up to 20% of their total body weight so that the animal is classified as a powerful animal.

In addition to the skin, other unique animals Pangolin is the shape and size of its tongue. Pangolin tongue has a size longer than the pangolin agency. because tongue this long, making pangolin is able to reach his food until at long distances even he can eat ants from the nest hole.

Every day, anteaters eat ants capable of up to 70 million ants. Pangolin actually have no teeth. Their meals using the gravel and thorns keratin to smooth the food that is in the stomach.

When the breed and give birth to a child, the mother anteater will take care to avoid enemies or other animals that prey on these children.

Pangolin baby will be taken by its parent put it on their backs. Besides it being the most distinctive characteristics of this scaly animals is their ability to fold themselves like roll to form a ball. It is they do when their lives are threatened by enemy or predators.

Turtle is a reptile zoo is pretty much kind with the ability to live too long. Animals running slow is generally close to human life, both as pets and wild animals were abandoned because there is no one type disturb. But turtle is a wild relative, the turtle named alligator Alligator Snapping Turtle latin.

Freshwater turtles are one size greatest. Some their kind ever weighed 113 kg when kept in an aquarium in Tennessee, USA. Chicago has also been discovered species of turtles with a weight of 107 kg. Even in 1937 have been found in Kansas, USA, and weigh up to 183 kg.Liar BeastsCompared with freshwater turtles, alligator turtle shape is very different. The real difference can be seen from the shape Shell unique shell or carapace.

Characterized by the shape of the carapace shell three rows of protrusions osteodermis similar to the shape of animals ancient. Turtle owned many turtles can carry camouflage with the environment through the shell shell-like brownish-green moss. These include turtle-eating animals of all kinds, though actually more like food or meat carnivores.

Supported by the behavior of the prey like a crocodile, it is not surprising when a turtle called turtle crocodile. Food provided will be eaten, either soft vegetables and carcass. As crocodiles, turtles are also able to kill other animals, such as snakes, animals, birds. Even turtles brave in fighting this crocodile. species really belongs to wild turtle, although a lot of people who love it as a pet.

Reflexes movement while preying crocodile-like, what he or she is also very fast. Moreover, it also has a tongue-shaped worms that can be extended, and is often used as a trap to catch fish in pool. ProtectedTortoises included in Macroclemys genus comprises three species that are found only in North America. But due to human hunt, turtle populations of rare and endangered species declared. In fact since 2006, CITES has set alligators turtle as a protected species and forbidden to be traded.

Ants are small insects that much playing around on the ground, or looking for sweet foods. If the saying goes There's sugar, There were ants, hehe. This time I will discuss about the Japanese Ants ant not play around to find the sugar. Here is a glance of the Japanese Ant and benefits.

The characteristics of Japanese Ants

Japanese ant has a hard body that this is different from other ant species. These ants have wings but can not fly. Like reproduction and by living in groups, they are not animals cannibals. It is certainly different from other ant species.

Japanese ant or beetle also called Mecca, when the Japanese language called by Ari, this means fidelity insects. If in Japan there are 200 species of ants Japan different. Here's a glimpse of Japanese ants that you may not know. It turns out these insects have great benefits for health, you are curious following explanation of the benefits of Japanese ants.

Nowadays many people who cultivate Japanese ants because today many in search of people because of the benefits and usefulness. Here are some health benefits to Japanese ants.

This One possible that you might be wondering how to drink how ..? You can take Japanese ant with a lot of empty capsules in drug stores nearby. swatch Japanese ants that fit into the capsule and eat with food, for example, by using it in his banana bananas continue to be eaten, or you can directly swallow capsule that first you enter ant Japan. Besides bananas you can also use other foods to take the benefits and efficacy of ants Japan.

Solenodon a venomous species of mammals only one of the family Solenodontidae. They are nocturnal animals that live in burrows and eating insects. And they are mammals who have supposedly primitive character of these species already exist at the end of the dinosaur era.

Solenodon is one of two species of Caribbean soricomorphs family. It remains unclear whether the family Nesophontidae extinct during the Holocene has a close relationship with Solenodon or not.

There are two species of Solenodon still alive today is Cuban Solenodon (Solenodon cubanus), and Haitian Solenodon or Hispaniolan Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus). Solenodon other two species have gone extinct during the Quarternary.

Solenodon appearance resembles the figure of a very large mouse. Muzzle length is flexible, and the Haitian Solenodon there is a ball-and-socket joint at the bottom of them to improve mobility. This allows them to get narrow crevices where prey they usually hide.

Solenodon body length of about 28 to 32 cm measured from tip of nose to rump. Solenodon weight of about 0.7 to 1 kg. This rare animals fairly easily agitated, so they are prone to bite even with very minimal interference and accidental.

Solenodon has some pretty interesting properties, two of which are nipples on females Solenodon position very close to the buttocks, and Solenodon saliva coming out of two turns poisonous fangs.

Symptoms resulting from exposure to toxins Solenodon among others depresei, labored breathing, convulsions, and paralysis. Even in a test using mice, when exposed to toxins Solenodon in large quantities can result in the rat experienced death.

Solenodon main food is insects, earthworms, and some invertebrate animals. They also feed on dead animals with backbones, and some are preying on vertebrate animals are still alive as small reptiles, and amphibians.

Solenodon have a good sense of smell that is used to locate prey. After finding prey, Solenodon will use both front legs to turn left-right move the prey, then move her head to prey on such prey. Solenodon also have sharp claws that will help in the hunt for prey.

Solenodon birth to her son in the hive. Usually in all their labor will give birth to one or two chicks. Solenodon puppies will be with its mother for approximately 7 months, and usually they will hang on the nipple of the mother long. And when fully grown, Solenodon are solitary animals, they are very rarely communicates with another except for mating.

Both species Solenodon currently in endangered status due to predation by raccoons, especially civet species Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus that in the colonial period were trained to hunt snakes and rodents such as cats and dogs ..

Cuban Solenodon once considered extinct, before in 2003 found the species they are still alive. Hispaniolan Solenodon also had declared extinct because their population is very small, and their behavior is still poorly understood.

Human development in Cuba and Hispanola also aggravate Solenodon population. Their habitat becomes deprived of the impact on narrowing of the spread, and reduced their population. The animals also became one of the very rare animal.