Gemina the Giraffe

Do You Know

Up until 2008 the Santa Barbara Zoo had a giraffe named Gemina that had a permanent 90 degree bend in her neck caused by fused vertebrae. 

The Lion

The lion considered “The king of the Animals” is one of the four big cats in the genus panther. Lion is a member of the Felidae Family.

 It’s the second largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions are mostly found in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their species in danger and a very small portion is surviving after destruction in Gir forest national park in India. Its almost vanishes from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times.

About thousand years ago, the lion was the most populated mammal after human.

They were mostly found in Africa across Eurasia from Western Europe to India. In America they were found Yukon to Peru.

The lion is capable of being wounded that’s why its population is reduced thirty to fifty percent from past two decades only in Africa region.

The cause of decline of this species is not yet concluded. There are may be more than are issues top whom this species is facing (off). It may be habitat loss or clashes with humans. Even in will life every male fight with other male lions to maintain or gain Kingdom. Then mostly fighting with prey like wild mounds or with elephants injures them. There injuries are also cows of decline of this species.

Average age of this species is 20 years. But it may depend on circumstances. It this species is in captivity, than better look after and zero percentage of injuries increase their age from ton to twenty years approximately.

While in wild life their age limit decrease to ten years.

 In this species, male lions hunt alone while female lions attack in groups with better strategy. Lions are considered as top and keystone plundering, though they scavenge as opportunity allows.

Lion don’t hunt humans commonly. But some incidents came to know. Male lion are easily recognized by its long hair on neck and form its wide face. From the upper Paleolithic period, with sculpture and paintings from chauvet and Lascaux cows, presence of lions is proved.

It has been extensively describe in paintings and carvings on national flags and in different films and cultures.

 Lions have been kept in Zoo from ancient t roman’s history. Since last eighteenth century.

Zoos are working world widely for the up breeding of the lions in Asiatic regions. The lion name is derived from the Latin word Leo and from ancient Greek Leon. Genus Penthra is a species of lion and tiger, Jaguar and leopard are other species of this genus.

Elephant

Elephants are huge land mammals (milk giving class) in two still existing generation of the family Elephantidae, Loxadonta and Elephas, with the third kind including Subordinate kinds, genus Mammuthus found rarely . The African bush Elephant, The African forest Elephant and The Indian or Asian Elephants are the three living and recognized species of Elephants.

While some research group the two African species into one and some of them also claim the existence of a fourth species in the West Africa.

All other genera and species of Elephants are hardly found.

Most have been vanished since the last ice age, while dwarf types of large extinct Elephant might have survived as late as 2,000 BC. Elephants and Elephantidae were once ranked with other hard and thick-skinned animals in a now unlegal order,  Pachydermata. Elephants are considered now one of the biggest and largest animals on Earth.

The period of carrying on in the womb between conception and birth of Elephant is 22 months, the longest from all land animals.

An elephant calf usually weight 105 kilograms at the time of birth.

The Elephants typically live 50 to 70 years, but in some records, oldest Elephant lived for 82 years.

Ever recorded biggest male Elephant weight about 10,900kg with height of 3.96 meters was shot in Angola in 1955. While the smallest Elephant about the size of a normal calf or a large Pig, was a species of a time before historical extant the lived on the Island of Crete.

Elephants are an emblem of wisdom in Asian Culture and are famous for their memory and intellectance.  The Intelligence level of Elephants is thought to be comparable to Dolphins and higher creature.

Aristotle said the Elephant was “The beats which proceed all others in understanding and mind”.

The word Elephant is originated from Greek word meaning “Ivory” or Elephant.

Elephants were considered the symbol of ivory and pride during ancient Emperor. Elephants are also known as human’s best and Nobel friend

Crocodile

A Crocodile is a species related to the family Crocodylidae. The term can also be used more widely to add all extant members of the order Crocodilia. Member species of the family Crodylidae are large living in or near water reptiles that live throughout the part of the world between The Tropics of Cancer and Capricon in Africa, Asia, Australia and America. Crocodiles stretch to congregate in freshwater places like rivers, lakes and wetlands. Crocodiles eat mostly vertebrates (having back bone) like fish, mammals, reptiles and in some cases also feed on invertebrates, depending on species.

Crocodiles were firstly found about 55 millions years ago during the Eocene Epoch. The crocodile word came from the Ancient Greek word means "Lizard" living in water, or Lizard of the river.

A Crocodile's physical  structure allow it to be a victorious predator. Its streamlined body helps it to swim softly and Rapidly. It also crams its feet to the side while swimming, that decrease water resistance and increases its speed. Its woven like feet through the water, but help it to make fast turns and moves in the water.

Woven and webbed feet are useful in no great depth water where animals usually moves around by walking.

Crocodile attacks very fastly from short distance, even out of water. They hunt by seizing  suddenly and holding onto their Plunder. they have unfold sharp teeth for drawing as under and holding onto flesh. Their strong and powerful muscles help them to close their jaws and hold them shut, while they are holding their prey.

Crocodile's Jaws are most powerful from any animal to bite. The pressure of its bits is approximately 5,000 pounds per square inch.

Here are different kinds and names of Crocodiles:-:

• Crocodylus Acutus
• Crocodylus Cataphractus
• Crocodylus Intermedius
• Crocodylus Johnstoni
• Crocodylus Mindorensis
• Crocodylus Moreleti
• Crocodylus Niloticus
• Crocodylus Novaeguineae
• Crocodylus Palustris
• Crocodylus Porosus
• Crocodylus Rhombifer
• Crocodylus Siamensis
• Osteolamus Tetraspis
• Tomistoma Schlegeli