Siberian Tiger

  Animal You | Siberian Tiger | The Siberian tiger is yellow or rusty red, with black stripes thin cross. The body length is not less than 150 cm (60 inches), the length of the skull condylobasal 250 mm (10 inches), zygomatic width 180 mm (7 inches) and the length of the upper carnassial tooth more than 26 mm (1 inch ) long. Generally, 5-10 cm (2-4 inches) longer than the Bengal tiger, which is about 107-110 cm (42-43 inches) tall. The measures taken by scientists Siberian Tiger Project in Sikhote-Alin range 178-208 cm (70 to 82) of the head and body length measured in a straight line, with an average of 195 cm (77 inches) males and females ranging from 167 to 182 cm (66-72 inches) with an average of 174 cm (69 inches). The tail is an average of 99 cm (39 inches) in males and 91 cm...

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Scorpion

  Animal You | Scorpion | Scorpions are found on all major land masses except Antarctica. The greatest diversity of scorpions in the Northern Hemisphere is in the subtropics between the latitudes 23 ° N and 38 ° N. Be found in these latitudes, the diversity, the presence north of scorpions are the Scorpion Paruroctonus Boreas north to 50 ° N. Scorpions are now in almost all terrestrial habitats, including high altitude mountains, caves and intertidal zones, found with the exception of boreal ecosystems such as the tundra, high altitude taiga and the permanently snow-capped mountains different. Five colonies of scorpions (Euscorpius flavicaudis) established themselves in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the UK. This scorpion species is small and completely harmless to humans. This...

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Impala

  Animal You | Impala | Impala are sexually dimorphic. Are 75 and 95 cm (30 and 37 inches) high. Average mass of 40-75 kg male Impala (88-170 pounds), while women weighing 30-50 kg (66-110 lbs). Women, known as sheep without horns. It has distinctive black and white stripes on the back and tail of black impala in very few places in Africa, is a very rare form causes a recessive gene, the color black in these animals. Impala have scent glands in the skin of the hind legs and sebaceous glands fall on your head. Impala is an ecotone 'live in open forests with little undergrowth and grassland with low average height "types. Impalas are adaptable forage. Usually in the grass and change with the seasons navigation. During the dry season, browse the leaves, buds, seeds and shrubs. Leopards,...

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Howler Monkey

  Animal You | Howler Monkey | Howler monkeys have a short snout and nose mostly rounded. Their noses are very enthusiastic, and Howler can feel their food (especially fruits and nuts) to 2 km. Like many New World monkeys have taken code. Unlike other New World monkeys, howler monkeys males and females have trichromatic vision color. This has evolved independently from other New World monkeys due to gene duplication. Howler are dimorphic species can also be dichromatic (ie, caraya Alouatta). The howler quadruped moving in the highest branches, usually choose a branch with at least two hands or one hand and the tail at any time. Howler monkeys mature adults often rely on the support line for the whole body, while the young do it more often. The majority of the species of howler...

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Harbor Porpoise

  Animal You | Harbor Porpoise | Pigs are a bit smaller than other porpoises, about 67-85 cm (26-33 inches) long at birth, 6.4 to 10 kg. Fins, dorsal fin, caudal fin and a dark gray back. Party a little easier variegated gray. Pigs English word comes from the Old French (French pourpois porpais 12 cents). What porcopiscus medieval Latin, which is a compound porcus (pork) and piscus (fish). An old word, probably a loan translation of German words, Friday marsvin mereswijn Danish and Dutch (porpoises). Classical Latin had a similar name, porculus Marina, and the idea of the name, probably imaginary nose looks like pigs or pigs breathing sound that resembles a pig snoring. Taxonomic species RNosaepa rNosaepa name, the Greek form verlatijnste φώκαινα, phōkaina "Great Seal", as described...

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Groundhog

  Animal You | Groundhog | In areas with fewer natural predators and large amounts of alfalfa, groundhogs can grow to 80 cm (30 inches) and 14 kg (31 lbs). Groundhogs are well adapted for digging, with the members of the court, yet powerful curved claws and thick. Adapted to temperate habitat, groundhogs are covered with two layers of fur: a dense layer and a layer of gray streaks in her that the groundhog its distinctive appearance "frozen" indicates. In captivity, groundhogs are reported to live 14.9 years. Common predators for groundhogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, lynxes, bears, large hawks and dogs. Marmotte young people are often at risk for predation by snakes, which easily enter the burrow. Mostly herbivorous, groundhogs primarily eat wild grasses and plants, including berries...

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Gray Whale

  Animal You | Gray Whale | The gray whale is traditionally defined as the only living beings in its genus and family. Recent DNA analysis shows some family Balaenopteridae Razorbacks as the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus stronger in gray whales whales as some others, such as minke whales are related. The common name of the whale comes from the color. The now extinct subfossil gray whales along the Atlantic coast of England and Sweden remains gray is used for the first scientific description of a kind only in Pacific waters to survive. Many other names are assigned to the gray whale, including desert whale, monkfish, gray back, mussel digger and pull the thread. The gray whale is a slate gray and dark was covered with gray-white patterns,...

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