Monkeys

 
Hey guys in the last post we met Penguins today we will meet our Ancestors, No; I'm not talking about your grand parents am talking about the one that irritates you the most the one that's very close to us the Monkeys.

Classification:
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Mammalia
Infra class-Primates
Order-Haplorrhini
Family-Simiiformes

Species:
-Monkeys Are Sub-divided into New world and old world monkeys.

-There are 264 known species of monkeys.

-The old world monkeys are more closely related to the apes then they are to the New World Monkeys.

Features:
-Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Marmoset, at 140 to160 millimeters to the male mandrill, almost 1 meter long.

-Their weight range from 120 to140 gms to 35 kilograms respectively.

     Monkeys are nonhuman primate mammal, except for Lemurs and tarsiers. 

Due to its size the Mandrill is often thought to be an ape but its actually an Old World Monkey. Also, Few monkeys have the word "ape" in their common name.

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Penguins

In our last post we met the king of the sky the Eagle which is one of the fastest and strongest bird well today we will meet the bird which can not fly, yep its a bird and it can't fly . It comes under Aquatic category, if you guessed Penguins you are right.


Classification:
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Aves
Infra class-Neognathae
Order-Sphenisciformes
Family-Spheniscidae

Species:
-Almost all penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere.
-They are not found only in cold climates, like Antarctica.
-Only few species of Penguins live so far south.
-Several species are found in the Temperate zone and only one species, Galapagos Penguin, Lives in the Equator.
-Emperor Penguins are the largest living Penguins whereas, Little Blue Penguin (Fairy Penguins) are the smallest.

Features:
-Weight The Emperor Penguins weigh 35 Kg or more and the little blue penguins weigh around 1kg.
-Length The Emperor Penguins grow up to 1.1 meters where as the little blue Penguins grow up to 40 cm tall.
-They have counter shaded dark and white plumage, theirs wings have become flippers.
-Penguins mostly eat krill's, squid, fish and other sea organisms caught under water.

Penguins Spend their life half on land and half in the ocean.
Larger Penguins are usually found in colder regions while smaller penguins are found in the temperate or equatorial regions. Some Prehistoric species attained enormous sizes becoming as heavy and tall as humans. Such penguins were not restricted to Antarctic regions, i.e., cold regions they also occurred at diverse climatic regions.

                                  Penguins have no fear of humans but they do get nervous once the distance is less than 3 meters and hence the tourists are not supposed to approach closer than 3 meter distance from the penguins, but they are not expected to withdraw if the penguins come closer.

Other Posts: Elephants, Blue Whale, Eagles.

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Eagles

Hey guys today we will meet the king of the sky. The awesomely powerful, huge and one of the fastest bird The Eagle.


Classification:

• Kingdom                 Animalia
• Phylum                   Chordata
• Class                         Aves
• Order                       Falconiforms or Accipitriforms
• Family                     Accipitridae

Different Species:

• More than 60 species are located in Eurasia and Africa.
• Bald and Golden Eagle are found in USA and Canada.
• 9 other are found in Central and South America.
• 3 in Australia.

Features:

• Weight                      Due to the great number of species the weight ranges from anywhere                                        between 500 gms to 6.5 Kgms.
• Length                      Their length is between 45 cms to 1 meters.

The name Eagle is deprived from the Latin term Aquila by the way of the french Aigle.

           Eagle is well known for perfect controlled flight, its strength and its size. The golden eagle is so powerful that it can crush a human head as easily as a human can crush an egg with their hands. Even the smallest Eagle species the Booted Eagles are the  larger stronger and faster then most of the other birds.

Eagles build their nests (called eyries) on either tall trees, high cliffs, etc. An eagle lays two eggs but usually the stronger or the older chick eats the smaller or weaker sibling.

Like all birds of prey Eagles too have a very powerful hooked beaks, strong muscular legs and claws also called Talons. Eagles have a very keen eyesight even at their fastest speed they can locate even a mouse from a long distance. This is due to their extremely large pupils which causes minimum scattering of the incoming light.

Other Animals: Elephants, Blue Whale.

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Elephants

Hey guys today we will meet a huge terrestrial mammal, awesomely powerful and respected as well as feared by all living things including humans, the Elephant. 

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	Elephantidae

The different species of elephants are:-

• The African Bush Elephant,
  
• African Forest Elephant and
• The Asian Elephant (also known as Indian Elephant).

The animals are the largest land animals. Their gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land mammal. They weigh around 120Kg at birth. They life span is around 50 to 70 years.

The elephants have appeared in various cultures. In Asia they are praised for their intelligence and wisdom. 

Elephant the name emerged from a Greek word.

The oldest elephant recorded was 82 years old and the largest elephant recorded was 12,000 kg with a shoulder height of 14feet taller then the average African elephant.

A healthy adult elephant has no predators but then too in the past few years their population have dramatically declined because of the humans. Its a shame to say that if the present conditions continue then the elephants will soon be extinct.

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