Oryx

 

The Life of Animals | Oryx | The term "Oryx" comes from the Greek word Ὂρυξ, oryx, a type of antelope. The correct plural is óryges although oryxes established in English. The Arabian Oryx the smallest species, became extinct in the wild in 1972 in the Arabian Peninsula. One of the largest populations of Arabian Oryx is in Sir Bani Yas Island in United Arab Emirates. Additional populations are again in Qatar, Bahrain, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. In 2011, the IUCN threat category of degraded vulnerable extinct in the wild, the first species to extinction in the wild back to the vulnerable state.

The Scimitar Oryx, also known Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah) of North Africa is now listed as possibly extinct in the wild. The East African Oryx (Oryx Beisa) inhabits East Africa, and the closely related Gemsbok (Oryx Gazella) lives in South Africa. The Gemsbok is monotypic, and the East African Oryx has two subspecies, East African Oryx "adequate" (Oryx Beisa Beisa) and Fringe-eared oryx (Oryx Beisa called otis).

All species oryx prefer desert conditions and can survive for long periods without water. They live in herds of 600 animals. Males and females have a permanent horns. The horns are narrow and straight, except for the Scimitar Oryx, which curve backwards like a scimitar.

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Brumby

 

The Life of Animals | Brumby | The term refers to a wild horse Brumby, Australia. Its first recorded use in print in the journal Australasian Melbourne in 1880, said the Brumbies, Bush's name in Queensland by "wild" horses. In 1800 only about 200 horses are thought to have reached Australia. Horse racing became popular in 1810, leading to an influx of Pure imports, mainly from England. About 3,500 horses were living in Australia in 1820, and this number grew to 160,000 in 1850, mainly due to natural growth. The horses were needed for the trip, and raised cattle and sheep as moving the pastoral industry. The first report of a runaway horse is in 1804, and by 1840, some horses escaped from populated areas of Australia.

Australia currently has at least 400,000 horses roaming the continent. Although wild horse population in general will be more than a plague moderate. Brumbies roaming in the Australian Alps in southeastern Australia, probably descendants of horses that were heard by the farmer and pioneer, Benjamin Boyd are his. The gene makes a radius of skin on parts of a horse, what color a mealy muzzle, lower arms, flanks and belly. It is sometimes seen in brown horse with blond mane and tail. The Department of Environment and Conservation and the Outback Heritage Horse Association of Western Australia (OHHAWA) watching this Brumbies specific to the careful management of these unusual wild horses to ensure

Brumbies were captured, equipped with GPS tracking rings, and extensive comparative study of the effect of terrain on the morphology and health of different horses. Brumbies can then be trained as stock horses and other horses. Brumbies are sometimes sold in the European market for horse meat after their capture and contribute millions of dollars to the Australian economy. About 30% of horses that come to export meat of the wild population. The fur and hair of horses will also be used and sold. The wild horses are in training camp Brumby organizations, the positive interaction between disturbed used to promote high-risk adolescents. These camps usually last several weeks, for people to train a young Brumby wild horse calm, became willing at the same time, improve self-esteem of youth.

Wild horses are also used to capture and process events Brumby competitions challenge Stockman, where the driver commits a freewheeling Brumby has to pick up his horse within a few minutes. The horses were initially described as a pest in Australia in the 1860s. Their impact on soil compaction erosion environment and soil erosion, vegetation trampling reduction in plant size, the increase in deaths in damage trees by chewing the bark, habitat and water holes, mud, proliferation of invasive weeds, and various adverse effects on populations of species. In some cases, where the wild horses are caught, they can be damaged infrastructure, including gutters, pipes and fences.

In some habitats, hooves of horses running free compact soil, and if the soil is compacted, minimizing air spaces, allowing water to collect anywhere. If this happens, the bottom in areas where the horses are widely used a water penetration resistance over 15 times greater than in areas without horses. Trampling also causes soil erosion and damage vegetation, and because the soil can not retain water, microbial contamination disabled. Horse trampling also has the potential to damage waterways and marsh habitats. Horse manure tends to pollute water courses, as well as the accumulation of carcasses, which are based on wild horses, run by the negative environmental impacts of these exotic species in Australia.

Sphagnum moss is an important part of Highland Moors, and is looking for water for the horses trampled. Wild horses can also reduce the abundance of plant species. The exposure of soil and vegetation by trampling removal of willows, recycled nutrients increase from horse manure, is caused in favor of weed species, which then penetrate the region and overcome native species, reducing their diversity, the spread weeds in combination helped by providing seeds of the horses manes and tails, and are also transmitted through the consumption of horse manure on weeds in one place to another, and excrement. The effects on plants and plant habitats are most pronounced during the dry season, when the horses to travel long distances to find food and water.

Wild horses can chew the bark of trees, some trees may be vulnerable to external threats. It seems that the wild horses prefer this type can Although representing a mismanagement of wild horses and a threat to the ecological environment in some parts of Australia may, at its management is complicated by issues of feasibility and public interest. There are currently trying to manage, as wild horses are considered pests in some states, like South Australia, but not others, including Queensland. There is also controversy over the removal of brumbies in national parks. The public interest is an important issue in efforts to control so many advocates for the protection of the Brumbies, including Aboriginal people, the wild horses are to believe the earth. Other interested parties are angry with the identification of horses of horses as a "wild" and are complete for all measures that threaten their survival, however.  This poem was in the films The Man from Snowy River and The Man from Snowy River II Extended (U.S. title: UK title "Return to Snowy River", "The Untamed") and The Man from Snowy River (TV series) and a Snowy River: Arena Spectacular. Another Banjo Paterson poem called Run Brumby, describes a multitude of Running Wild brumbies.

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Curly Horse

 

The Life of Animals | Curly Horse | The Curlies are known for their calm personality, smart and friendly. Most people found that Curlies enjoy the company of people. The Curlies are generally non-volatile. The single gene that gives Curlies their curly hair (which is most evident in the winter) can be expressed as a (horse exhibits curly hair inside the ears, balls, and a tangled mane and tail) at the minimum, maximum horse shows clusters throughout the body, dreadlocked mane, and has curly eyelashes and guard), and "Extreme" (very tight, extreme curls, but when they poured out for the summer can shed entirely bald) or variations. Curlies have split manes and are not twisted or cut when shown.  Care for curly hair is simple.

All proceeds go to research efforts Icho Curly. Curlies are acclaimed as the only hypoallergenic bloodstock, most people who are allergic to horses can go Curly Horses without suffering an allergic reaction. Survey shows lack of a protein in the hair of Curlies which may be the cause of allergic reactions to horses in allergy suffers, but the study was never published officially. Members of the Curly Community are working on funding for more research on thisthe Curly has a characteristic step length and bold move. Most Curlies stand between 14 and 16 hands, but can range from miniature horses to Draft horses (Only allowed on two records). The origin of the Curly horse is much debated in the Curly community, but research is mostly still in full swing.

ABCR members prefer "Bashkir Curly," as members of the CSI and Icho tend to "North American Curly." It is said that the Curly horses were documented in Asian artwork as early as 161 AD. Charles Darwin documented key horses in South America in the early 19th century and early Sioux Indians regarded horses keys as sacred mounts for chiefs and healers. Native American art shows Curlies Warriors at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Note that foals horses raised through the curly hair.

The Curly Horse was first documented in Eureka, Nevada in the early 20th century by John Farmer Damele and their children. While Mustangs were a normal phenomenon, Curly Coated horses were unusual. After a harsh winter in 1951/52, the Dameles began in earnest the creation of these horses. Curlies are characteristically quiet, sober horses an excellent first horse for novice riders followed. Curlies led horse-allergic state for beginner riders increasingly advanced stages of equestrian sports. They are also used for combined driving, western riding, horse farm, horse track and comrades from other horses. Some Curlies were crossed with gaited horses.  Curlies are not used for racing or trotting shows high

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Kiang

  

The Life of Animals | Kiang | The Kiang is the largest of the wild ass, with an average shoulder height of 13.3 hands (55 inches, 140 inches). Kiang has very little sexual dimorphism, with males weighing 350 to 400 kg (770 to 880 pounds), while the females 250 to 300 kg (550 to 660 pounds) in weight. The fur is a rich chestnut brown, dark brown in the winter and a sleek reddish brown in late summer, when the animal molts its woolly fur. The summer coat is 1.5 centimeters long and the winter coat is twice as long. A broad, dark chocolate-colored dorsal stripe extends from the end of the mane to the tail ends in a tuft of black hair brown The Eastern Kiang is the largest subspecies, the Southern Kiang is the smallest. The Kiang West is slightly smaller than the eastern and also has a dark coat.

Kiang inhabit alpine meadows and steppes Country 2700-5300 meters (8900 ft and 17,400) in height. They prefer relatively flat plateaus, wide valleys and rolling hills, dominated by grasses, sedges and small amounts of other low-lying vegetation. If there is little grass available, such as during winter or in the drier edges of their natural habitat, they were observed to eat shrubs, herbs, roots and even Oxytropis, dug from the ground. Kiang defend by forming a circle and throw out violently with his head down. As a result wolves usually attack single animals who have removed from the group. Kiang occasionally congregate in large herds, which may be numbered several hundred persons. Older males are usually solitary defend a territory of about 0.5 to 5 square kilometers (0.19 to 1.9 square miles) of rivals, and dominated all local groups of women.

Kiang link between late July and late August, when around older men's reproductive females rather trot around them, and then chasing them prior to mating. Foals weigh up to 35 kg (77 lb) at birth, and are able to walk within a few hours. Kiang live up to 20 years in the wilderness. The Kiang is closely associated with the onager (Equus hemionus) used in some classifications it is considered a subspecies of E. hemionus kiang. Kiang can onager, horses, donkeys, and zebras crossing to Burchell's in captivity, though, as mules, the resulting offspring are sterile. Kiang has never been domesticated.

Bactrian camel

 

  

The Life of Animals | Bactrian camel | The Bactrian camel is believed to have been domesticated (independently of the dromedary) sometime before 2500 BC, is believed likely in northern Iran, northeastern Afghanistan, or southwestern Turkestan The dromedary camel was, between 4000 BC and 2000 BC BC have been domesticated in Arabia. The wild population of Bactrian camels was pioneered by Nikolai Przhevalsky in the late 19 Century described.  Bactrian camels have in the center of the arts throughout history. In particular, it was found that a population of wild Bactrian camel lives in a part of the Gobi Gashun region of the Gobi Desert.

Another difference is the ability of wild camels to drink saltwater slush, although still not certain that the camel can extract useful water from it. Domesticated camels do not try to drink salt water, although the reason for this is unknown. The Bactrian camel was one of the top ten "focal species" in 2007 by the unusual and animal species (EDGE) project, the unique and endangered species identified priority for nature conservation.  The primary enemies of the wild Bactrian camels are wolves that hunt in order to havens for easy prey. A small captive population is maintained in Mongolia and China.

Vicuña

 

  

The Life of Animals | Vicuña | The vicuña is a delicate and graceful than the guanaco, and smaller. An essential element distinguishing feature of the morphology of the better-developed incisor roots for guanaco.Its long, woolly coat is tawny brown on the back, while the hair is white on the throat and chest and fairly long. The head is slightly shorter than the guanaco and the ears are a little longer. Vicuñas live exclusively in South America, especially in the central Andes. They are originally from Peru, north-west of Argentina, Bolivia and northern Chile, and there is a small, introduced population in central Ecuador. The rays of the sun are in a position to the thin atmosphere produces relatively warm temperatures to penetrate during the day, however, temperatures drop to freezing at night. The vicuña's thick but soft coat is a special adaptation, can tolerate the layers traps warm air close to his body to freezing temperatures. The behavior of the vicuña is similar to the guanaco.

Like the guanaco, they are frequently lick calcareous stones and rocks that are rich in salt, and drink is also salt water.  Vicuñas live in family-based groups of one male, taken 5-15 females and their young. Young males form bachelor groups and young women to join the search for a fraternity. Along with preventing intraspecific competition, it also prevents inbreeding, which has a population bottleneck in endangered species can cause as observed with cheetahs. The wool is renowned for its warmth. Its warming properties of the tiny scales that are on the hollow air filled fibers come. At the same time it is finer than any other wool in the world, measuring 12 microns in diameter  but because they are sensitive to chemical treatment, the wool is usually left in its natural color. During the time of the Incas, vicuna fiber is called by local efforts Chacu were assembled, where crowds of people herded hundreds of thousands of vicuña into previously defined funnel traps.

From June 2007, prices for vicuña yarns and fabrics of $ 1,800 to $ 3,000 per meter range. Vicuña fiber for clothing (including socks, sweaters, accessories, scarves, coats, suits and) and home fashion (such as blankets and throws) are used. A scarf costs about $ 1,500, while a man's coat cost up to $ 20,000. 

 

Musk ox

 

   

The Life of Animals | Musk ox | The thick coat and large head often suggests a larger animal than the musk ox is really heavy but have kept zoo specimens weighed up to 650 kg (1,400 lb). Musk oxen are occasionally domesticated for wool, meat and milk of the wool, Qiviut is prized for its softness, length and insulation value. Musk oxen are native to the arctic regions of Canada, Greenland and the United States. The musk ox successfully in the Taimyr Peninsula in 1975, reintroduced during the summer, muskoxen live in wet areas to avoid, such as river valleys, moving to higher altitudes in the winter of deep snow. Musk oxen feed on grasses, Arctic willows, shrubs, lichens and mosses. Musk oxen have a high level of fat reserves before conception that reflects their conservative breeding strategies. Winter ranges tend to have shallow snow to reduce reach to find the energetic cost of digging through snow for food. Predators of musk oxen are Arctic wolves, grizzly bears and polar bears. Musk oxen live in herds, the number of 12 to 24 in winter and in summer 20.08 do not you own territories, but they mark their tracks with pre-orbital glands of male and female musk oxen have both separate age hierarchies with mature oxen as dominant over young people.

Muskox bulls maintain their dominance in many different ways. Bulls roar too, swinging their heads and sometimes paws ground.Dominant cops treat subordinate bulls as cows. A dominant bull is an afterthought, a minor kick with their front legs, to do something which they, for cows during the breeding-dominant bulls will also mock subordinates copulate and sniff her genitals a minor bull can his status by charging a dominant bull The pairing (or "rut "Changing) Season starts end of musk oxen June or early July. During this time, dominant bulls fight others from the herd and establish harems of Rule 6-7 cows and their offspring. Fighting bulls are rubbing their first pre-orbital glands on their legs while yelling loudly and displays its horns.The cops then another 20 meters, lowering their heads and charge into each other and will do that is to a bull up.But child and elderly bulls leave the herds to form bachelor groups or alone, however, if there is a risk that can return to the herd bulls outside for protection. Dominant bulls cows from leaving their harems.During prevent mating, a bull is casually kick a cow estrus with his front leg to calm them and make them more receptive to his advances.

Cows calve all year.When winters are not severe, cows will not remain in estrus and thus do not go to the next calving year.When calving, cows in the herd of birth are protection.After, calves able to keep up with the herd only few hours after birth. Cows and calves communicate by shouting. The calf and weakens the bond to his mother after two years Musk oxen have a distinctive defensive behavior: when the herd is threatened, the bulls and cows will face outward to form a stationary ring or semi-circle around the calves. Bulls determine the defensive formation during mating, while the cows decide the rest of the year.

Mountain goat

 

The Life of Animals | Mountain Goat | Both male and female mountain goats have beards, short tails and long black horns, 15-28 cm in length, the annual growth rings. The fine, dense wool of their undercoats is an outer layer of longer, hollow hairs. In spring, mountain goats moult by rubbing against rocks and trees, with the adult bucks (males) to throw their own wool first and the pregnant does (females) shedding last  Mountain goats typically weigh 100-300 pounds (45-136 kg), Women are typically 10-30% lighter than the males. The mountain goat's feet are for climbing steep, rocky slopes, sometimes with pitches of 60 degrees or more, with inner pads, traction and cloven hooves, which can be spread apart as needed to offer suitable.  The mountain goat inhabits the Rocky Mountains and Cascade Range North America, from northern Washington, Idaho and Montana through British Columbia and Alberta, in the southern and southeastern Alaska, Yukon.

Mountain goats are the largest mammals in their high-altitude habitats, surveys of 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) or more to reach place. Winter migrations to low-elevation mineral licks often several or more kilometers through forested areas. Mountain goats reach sexual maturity at about 30 months. Nannies undergo synchronized estrus in a herd in late October to early December to participate at which time males and females during the mating season. Mature billies will stare at a nanny for a long time, ruts dug pits to fight, and in striking each other (though occasionally dangerous) scuffles. Young billies sometimes try to participate, but they are ignored by nannies, nanny is also sometimes pursue inattentive billies. Both males and females usually mate with several people during the breeding season, although some billies away to try to keep other males from certain nannies.

Nannies form loose groups from kindergarten up to 50 animals. Nannies give birth, usually to a single offspring, after moving to an isolated ledge; lick after the birth, the baby dry and ingest the placenta. Nannies can be very competitive and to protect their space and food sourcesTo avoid fights, an animal with an attitude of non-aggression show a deep stretch at the bottom. To protect in deeper regions below the treeline, nannies and their fighting abilities, and their offspring from predators such as wolves, wolverines, cougars, lynx and bears. Even though their size protects them from most potential predators at higher altitudes, nannies still must defend their young from golden eagles, which can be a threat to very young children. Mountain goats may occasionally be aggressive towards people with at least one death reported, resulting from an attack by a mountain goat.

Alpine ibex

 

The Life of Animals | Alpine ibex | The ibex was, at one point, only the National Park of Gran Paradiso limited in northern Italy, but has in recent years occupied most of the European Alps again, and is found in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, currently there are no recognized subspecies. Capricorns tend to avoid large areas of forest, however, in areas with high population density, adult males using larch larch and spruce mixed forest most of the year. Males and females tend to use different habitats, most of the year. The females are more dependent than the steep terrain of low-elevation meadows males.Males use in the spring when the snow melt and green grass appears.

Home ranges generally larger in summer and autumn, in spring and smallest in winter are smaller female territories are generally smaller than men's. Alpine ibex are strict herbivores, which is about half of their diet of grasses, and the rest is a mixture of moss, flowers, leaves and twigs. Grass species that are most often eaten Agrostis, Avena, Calamagrostis, Festuca, Phleum, Poa, and Sesleria Trisetum. The Alpine ibex will hide in the rocks of the steep cliffs, when they pursued the robbers from climbing ability of Capricorn, that he was seen standing on the sheer face of a dam, where he licks the stones to get in mineral salts

Although the Alpine Ibex is gregarious, there are sexual and spatial segregation, depending on the season. Four types of groups are present. Adult male groups, groups of females and their dependent offsping made, groups of young individuals of 2-3 years of age and mixed sex groups. Mixed sex groups of adult men and women occur during the breeding season lasts from December to January. The largest concentrations of both sexes occur in late spring and summer, in June and July. The males aggregate then separate from their wintering areas. There is a linear hierarchy exists among males. In small populations, male ibex know their place in the hierarchy of memories of past encounters into coherent social units, while in the mobile and large groups, which are common encounters with strangers, based on rank-based Horn length.Ibex males, showed two types of antagonistic behavior: direct and indirect aggression.

In the first phase of the male groups interact with the females, all in estrus. The males approach the females in a small stretch and stand at a distance proportional to their social rank. In the second phase of the rut, a man will be resolved by this group and follow an individual female. He leads the low elongation and every male that threaten approaches. The males will then mate with the females and then to join his group, and again in the first phase. The gestation period lasts about 167 days, and the results in the birth of one or two children, twins making up about 20% of births Alpine ibex reach sexual maturity at 18 months, but the females do not reach their maximum size for five to six years, and not men for nine or eleven years. In the 19th Century became extinct mountain goats in Austria and northeastern Italy. They stayed only in the area of the Gran Paradiso massif in the western Italian Alps. The ibex were protected from poaching and their population grew to about 3020 to 1914. In 1922, Gran Paradiso was made into a national park to protect the ibex.

Golden ringed Dragonfly

  
The Life of Animals | Golden ringed Dragonfly | The Golden-ringed Dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii) is a large, striking and the longest British dragonfly species, the only one of its genus to be found in Britain They are easily Identified by Their distinctive black and yellow stripes, the which no other dragonfly in Britain has. The female lays the eggs in shallow water. This strikingly-colored insect is incredibly aerobatic and Sometimes They fly very high up into the sky.

 

Magpie

  

The Life of Animals | Magpie | Magpies are passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae. In Europe, "magpie" is Often used by English speakers as a Synonym for the European Magpie, as there are no other Magpies in Europe outside Iberia. According to analysis, the Magpies do not form monophyletic group Traditionally They are believed to be a long tail Certainly has elongated (or shortened) independently in multiple lineages of corvid birds.

Among the traditional Magpies, there Appear to be two distinct lineages: one consists of Holarctic species with black / white coloration and is probably closely related to Eurasian Crows and jays.

The Azure-winged Magpie is a species with a most peculiar distribution and unclear relationships. Either the North American, Korean, and remaining Eurasian forms are accepted as three or four separate species, or there exists only a single species, Pica pica.

Lark

  

The Life of Animals | Lark | Larks are small to medium-sized birds, 12 to 24 cm (5 to 8 inches) in length and 15 to 75 grams (0.5 to 2.6 ounces) in weight (Kikkawa 2003). They have more elaborate than most birds calls, and Often given extravagant songs in display flight (Kikkawa 2003). Most species build nests on the ground, usually cups of dead grass, but in some species more complicated and partly domed. A few desert species nest very low in bushes, so Perhaps circulating water can cool the nest. Larks' eggs are usually speckled, and clutch sizes range from 2 (ESPECIALLY in species of the driest deserts) to 6 (in species of temperate regions). Larks incubate for 11 to 16 days (Kikkawa 2003). Like many ground birds, most species have long Lark Hind claws, the which are thought to Provide stability while standing.

Many species dig with Their bills to uncover food. Some Larks have heavy bills (reaching an extreme in the Thick-billed Lark) for cracking open seeds, while others have long, down-curved bills, the which are ESPECIALLY Suitable for digging (Kikkawa 2003). Larks are the only passerines That Their lose all feathers in their first moult (in all species Whose first moult is known).

In many respects, Including tertial long feathers, Larks resemble other ground birds Such as pipits. Larks are a well-defined family, partly Because of the shape of Their tarsus (Ridgway 1907). For instance, the American Ornithologists' Union places just after the Crows Larks, shrikes, and vireos. At a finer level of detail, some now place the Larks at the beginning of a superfamily Sylvioidea with the swallows, Various' Old World warbler "and" Babbler "groups, and others (Barker et al., 2002, Alstrom et al. 2006) . Larks, commonly consumed with bones intact, have Historically been Considered wholesome, delicate, and light gaming.

Lark's Tongues were particularly highly valued. In modern times, shrinking habitats Lark made meat rare and hard to come by, though it can still be found in Italy and elsewhere in Restaurants in Southern Europe (Hooper).