Archive for February, 2008
Coal Tit
The Coal Tit is a small Bird and has The Coal Tit is 10–11.5 cm in length, and has a distinctive large white nape spot on its black head. The head, throat and neck of the adult are glossy blue-black, setting off the white on the nape and sides of the face; the white tips of the coverts show as a double wing bar. The underparts are white shading through buff to Rufus on the flanks. The bill is black, the legs lead-coloured and irides dark brown.
The young bird is duller than the adult, the black head having no sheen, and the white of the nape and cheeks is tinged with yellow.
Sixteen Baby Pandas Born -2003
A record 16 giant pandas have been born in captivity this year, the head of China’s panda breeding programme says.
They include twins born in Japan and a cub born in California - to mothers lent to zoos by China.
Threatened with extinction in the wild, captive breeding programmes, including artificial insemination, are seen as vital to save giant pandas.
Only about 1,000 of the animals remain in the wild, feeding on bamboo in the Sichuan mountains of south-west China.
Did You Know?
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A total of 29 pandas
were inseminated naturally or
artificially in the spring and
they gave birth to 19 pandas in the autumn,
of which two were stillborn and one
failed to survive, said Zhang Zhihe,
head of China’s Giant Panda Breeding Technology Committee.
Kinkajou
The Kinkajou a mammal which is other known as The Honey Bear, Sugar Bear, or the Cat-Monkey it lives in the rain forest and is of the Family Procyonidae related to the Olingo, Ringtail, Cacomistle, Raccoon, and Coati. It is the only member of the of the Genus Potos.
Did You Know?
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The Kinkajou is Native to Central America and South America , this Aboreal mammal is not particularly Rare thou it is in Seldom because of it is Nocturnal habits. Sometimes the Kinkajou is mistaken for a monkey or Ferrets.
Giant Panda
The Giant Panda is only found in China and Japan due to its large supplie of Bamboo, Pandas Though belonging to the order Carnivora family, the panda has a diet which is 99 percent bamboo. Pandas may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, bananas and small insect found on Bamboo.
The Giant Panda has a black-and-white coat. Adults measure around 1.5 m long and around 75 cm tall at the shoulder. Males are 10-20% larger than females. Males can weigh up to 115 kg. Females are generally smaller than males, and can occasionally weigh up to 100 kg. Giant Pandas live in mountainous regions, such as Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Tibet.