wild animals
Animals the way nature intended it; explore the world of wild animals and the controversies surrounding domestication and hunting of feral beasts.
Are Dolphins Smarter Than Humans?
While dolphins have advanced communication skills and cognitive abilities, they do not have the same level of intelligence as humans. Like dogs, dolphins use gestures and human gestures to detect distant objects. As humans, dolphins can use their environment to their advantage. For example, a group of dolphins in Australia carried sponges in their shops to protect their blindfolds from coral reefs.
By Dipan Pathak5 years ago in Petlife
Strangest Looking Creatures
Mammals Naked Mole-Rat The naked mole-rat is an animal that has no fur and is nearly blind. These animals live underground in colonies similar to insects. Their nearest relatives are porcupines, chinchillas, and guinea pigs. Not completely bald they have about 100 fine hairs on their bodies acting like whiskers to help them get around. The hairs found between their toes help the naked mole rats to move soil between them while they are digging tunnels. They are among the longest living of all rodents and can live for nearly 30 years and have an amazing resistance to cancer.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
Best ways to save amphibian species which are presently at risk of extinction
This week, the Unified Countries Panel on Biodiversity declared that human effects are undermining the endurance of almost 1,000,000 species, including 40% of known species, or around 3,200 species. Another review distributed May 6 in the diary Current Science utilizes measurable examination. anticipating that 1,100 types of amphibian and sea-going creatures from the Global Association for Protection of Nature are classified as "information shortage", which decides the condition of preservation of plant and creature land. On the off chance that a worldwide temperature alteration is communicated to all undisclosed classifications, it recommends that no less than 33% of all species are imperiled, implying that 40% of all water species on the planet are compromised with termination (Table 1).
By Shreya Poudel5 years ago in Petlife
The Long Journey
I have empty nest syndrome. I miss my little flutters. Last year, during the pandemic lockdown, I spent more and more time in my garden. I graduated college with a biology degree, though my career has more focused on geology and metallurgy than the organics in the system. Walking among the plants three generations of my family planted gave me a good respite from the constant reminders of mortality.
By Meredith Harmon5 years ago in Petlife
What Budgerigar Birds Experts Don't Want You To Know!
The budgerigar, also known as the for the use of all parakeet or case parakeet, is a tiny, drawn out-tailed, sperm-corrosive poll usually nicknamed the budgie or in American English people, the parakeet. Budgies are the only assemblage in the group Melopsittacus. Naturally, the assemblage is virid and fulvid with swarthy, scalloped markings on the nape, back, and wings. Budgies are bred in confinement with the coloring of dejection, whites, jaundice, greys, and even with tiny crests. Juveniles and chicks are monomorphic, while adults are told apart by their wax coloring and their manner.
By Mohammad Zahidul Islam5 years ago in Petlife
Zoos are sometimes seen as necessary but not poor alternatives to a natural environment
Auckland Zoo, for example, has several breeding programs that allow animals to mate and reproduce. On the other hand, many believe that the conservation of wildlife in zoos is a way to preserve many endangered species. However, there is a debate between people who do not want zoos and their loved ones, and most of them are against zoos because the animals are not healthy enough to be in them and the zoos themselves are not healthy.
By Sonia Shrestha 5 years ago in Petlife
Animals Come Together
Obstinant Buffalo If you would try to get a large number of buffalo to do something they do not wish to do you would discover that buffalo are obstinant. A fact you might not know is that both bison and buffalo in North America are referred to under the term American bison. This is because buffalo can only be found in South Asia and Africa.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
Prehistoric Shark - Megalodon
Approximately 23.5-36 million years ago, Megalodon’s roamed our vast oceans and is considered to be one of the most feared creatures of all time. With the name translating to ‘Big Tooth’ these creatures could grow 47-67ft long, over double to triple the size of our current Great White Sharks.
By Elizabeth Perks5 years ago in Petlife
