Animals, Animal Species

Owl - Lord Of The Night

Owls are rightly known as 'lords of the night.' Their whole structure is designed around the fact that they must live successfully in the dark. With eyesight a hundred times as acute as ours, owls can detect an image in the faintest glimmer of light, avoid tree branches and other obstacles, capture the most rapid of darting prey.
Acorn Woodpecker- The Most Thrifty Of All Woodpeckers

Most thrifty of all is the Californian acorn-storing woodpecker. It methodically studs the bark of trees with close rows of holes, into each of which it tightly tamps an acorn.
Walrus: A Marine Giant That Can Tip The Scales to Two Tons

In the Pacific they make annual migrations moving south for the winter and north again as soon as warming weather breaks up the ice. A walrus in a spring migration may travel as far as 2,000 miles and it is during this migration, in late April or early May, that the Pacific walruses have their new calves.
Sea Lions

Unlike the fur seals, the sea lions wear coats that are coarse and of little commercial value. This has worked to their advantage. But the sea lion's eating habits have earned them condemnation from commercial fishermen for many decades. Sea lions return, year after year, to the same rocky breeding grounds.
Great White Shark

Of the approximately 350 known shark species, 3 have been blamed for the large majority of attacks on humans. Leading the pack is the great white, subject of the film Jaws, followed by the tiger and bull sharks. The largest great whites grow at least 26 feet and can swallow an adult human, whole. They seem particularly prone to striking in Australian waters, whose popularity with bathers make Down Under a hot spot for shark attacks.
Pika, Mouse Hare, Rock Rabbit

Pikas, also called mouse hares or rock rabbits, eke out their living in the harsh environment above or near the timber line of mountains in western North America and northern Asia. Both North American species live in colonies beneath rocks, as do most of the 12 Asian species.
Bullfrogs

The largest frog found in North America, the Bullfrog grows to 6 to 8 inches length. It ranges throughout eastern and central North America, with patchy dsitribution in the West. The Bullfrog is commonly found in ponds, lakes, and streams. Call of male is a series of loud, resonant bass notes which function both as breeding calls and territorial calls.
Japanese Giant Salamander

This endangered species can reach 4 feet in length. Dark brown with black spots, it is among the largest amphibians in the world. Despite its size, this salamander is hard to spot since it hides out during the daytime in its underwater lair and does not come out to eat until nightfall.
Gorillas

All gorillas live in a few heavily forested ares in Africa. Scientists have divided them into three groups. Most of the gorillas you seen in zoos and museaums are western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). As many as a hundred thousand live in the tropical rain forests of west Africa. Fully grown western lowland gorillas vary in size from one to another.
Emperor Penguin

Standing as high as a tall man's hip, the emperor is the largest penguin and perhaps the hardiest. IT lays its eggs on the Antarctic ice, and in winter, a time when temperatures easily drop to minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It helps that emperors are very social and huddle together against the cold, but their feats of egg-hatching and chick-rearing still deserve admiration.
Lion

Female lions, being leaner and lighter than males, are better hunters and make most of the kills, but adult males quickly move in and claim the "lion's share" of the carcass before allowing females and cubs a turn. Lions do most of their hunting at night or just before dawn. Despite their ferocity, they fail to bring down prey more often than they succeed.
Green Mambas

Mambas are the swiftest of all snakes, especially when travelling through tangled scrub, and they feed on small mammals (especially rodents), reptiles and birds. All are shy and nervous, but they are common and their bites account for several human deaths each year.
Arctic Tern

The Arctic tern migrates nearly 25,000 miles a year from the northern land of the midnight sun to Antarctica's long summer, and back again. It is said to be the bird that hardly sees darkness, the longest direct distance migrator.
Moose

The name "moose" stems from the Native America Algonquian language. It means "eater of twigs," which is pretty good description of a mosse does. Early English and some French explorers and settlers adopted the word "moose." Moose give birth from late May into early June after a gestation period of about 260 days.
Cheetah - The Fastest Mammal In The World

Distinguished from leopards, the other famous spotted cats, by their lankier build, tufted shoulder hair, and distinctive black facial lines, cheetahs have been clocked at up to 70 miles per hour on short sprints.

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