Horse: Pet with Many Purpose

Many people love to have a horse, they want to have this pet because they enjoy riding in it. It doesn't only gives you ride but it can help you in many ways. Horse is kind of animal which has many uses. That is why many people wants to have a horse.

The horse is a hooved(ungulate) mammal, a subspecies of the family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multitoed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE.

Horses are large, strong animals with hoofs and a long mane tail. They are being used by people for riding. They are evenused to carry heavy loads or pull wagons, carriages, plows, or other implements.

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For over the generations, the horse has been one of the most useful animals. They once provided the fastest and surest way for land travel. Hunters used to ride on horses chased and killed animals. Fighters and soldiers fought battles on their sturdy war horses. Pioneers used horses to settle the American West in the days of stage coaches, covered wagons, and the pony express.

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Today, horses are not the mainstay of work and transportation as they once were. In most countries, they have been replaced by the “iron horse” and the “horseless carriage”. But still, people use horses. A few employ horses for work while others keep horses for sport and recreation.

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As we know that horses are wonderful animals and we enjoy in having them as pet as well as friend. It is definitely lot of fun owning a horse but it also gives a lot of work in taking care of them. Like other pets horses also needs proper care and love. So, if you are planning to have one be sure that you really know how to take care of it in a proper way.

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Kingfisher: Master Fisher

Every time I had a walk along the seashore, I always watch these beautiful creatures. I observe that they are catching fish. I ask my friend and she told me that it is a “Kingfisher” a kind of a bird.

The kingfisher is a small to medium sized colorful bird generally found close to water. There are nearly 100 different species of the kingfisher bird found around the world.

Kingfishers live both in wetlands and woodlands worldwide, feeding mainly on fish but also insects, frogs, and crayfish with those kingfisher species that live in the woodlands occasionally eating reptiles, birds and even small mammals.

There are three main types of kingfisher around the globe which are the river kingfishers, the tree kingfishers and the water kingfishers all of which have large heads, long sharp pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails.

The River Kingfishers

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The Alcedininae, or River Kingfishers, are all small birds. They are the most ancient of the three kingfisher lineages. Some species in this group — in the genus Alcedo, like the very widespread Common Kingfisher A. atthis — do fish regularly along streams and rivers. But many of the two dozen species in this group are forest birds, although quite a few prefer the edges of small wooded rivulets.

The Tree Kingfisher

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The tree kingfishers or wood kingfishers are the most numerous of the three families of birds in the kingfisher group, with between 56 and 61 species in around 12 genera, including several species  of kookaburras. The family appears to have arisen in Indochina and the Maritime Southeast Asia and spread to many areas around the world.

The tree kingfishers are short-tailed large-headed compact birds with long pointed bills. Like other Coraciform, they are brightly colored. Most are monogamous and territorial, nesting in holes in trees or termite nests. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. Although some tree kingfishers frequent wetlands, none are specialist fish-eaters. Most species a dive onto prey from a perch, mainly taking slow moving invertebrates or small vertebrates.

The Water Kingfisher

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The Cerylid Kingfishers are one of three distinct groups of kingfishers. Known as the Water Kingfishers, these are often the conspicuous kingfishers seen hovering over lakes, ponds, and marshes around much of the globe. They range from high to low latitudes in Eurasia, Africa, and the New World, but are missing from Australasia. Pied Kingfisher is a widespread and common species in the Old World.

The largest kingfisher in the world is Giant Kingfisher of sub-Saharan Africa. Although we often think of these types of kingfishers when we think of the family, there are only 9 species of Cerylid kingfishers and thus they comprise only 10% of the world's kingfisher, the rest of which are in other subfamilies.

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Deer: Rich in Antlers

Did you ever wonder why the deer has an antler with branches? This animal is one of a kind because of its inique appearance. It is its antler that made the deer different from other animals.

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Most male deer grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned animals.

There are many kinds and some of them are,

Mule deer-is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. It gets its name from its large mule-like ears. The black -tailed deer is considered by some a distinct species though it is classified as a subspecies of a Mule Deer. They generally more associated with the land west of the missouri River. The mule deer tail is black tipped. Their antlers are bifurcated, or “fork” as they grow rather than branching from a single main beam. Each year a buck's antlers start to grow in spring and are shed after mating season from mid-January to mid-April. Mule deer bucks have somewhat more prominent ears than females. Instead of running, mule deer move with a bounding leap (stout), with all four feet coming down together.

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Black deer-more accurately rteffered to as melanistic deer, are very rare across North America, they are spotted more frequently in Central Texas. Melanistic whitetails ae very rare, even more rare than piebalb or albino deer. You can recognize it because of their bodies produce far too much of the pigment of known melanin which makes them much darker than average white tale.

                                                                     

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White-tailed deer-also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail. It is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America as far as South Peru.

                                                               

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Red deer-is one of the largest deer spoecies. The Red deer inhabits most of Europe, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa.

                                                                        

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Moose or European Elk- is the largest extantspecies in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers af the males; other members of the family have antlers with a (twig-like)configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Norethern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climate.

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Elk or Wapiti-is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in North America and Eastern Asia. Elk are almost identical to a red deer found in Europe, of which they were long believed to be a subspecies.

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These are but just few of the different kinds of deer. What ever kind of deer we have in our place, the most important thing is that we should know how to preserve them and not to hunt them.

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Butterfly: Colorful and Beautiful Insect

Have you ever notice this beautiful creature that when it spread its wings it brings out different attractive colors that you can’t imagine where do those combinations came from?

The butterfly can be found in most countries in the world, but there tend to be more butterflies in warmer climates. The butterfly is a type of insect that feeds on flower nectar through its long and curled straw-like tongue.

Butterflies are similar in appearance and tendencies to moths, with many species of butterfly often getting confused as a moth and moths with butterflies. In general the butterfly species tend to be more brightly colored than the moth species, but there are exceptions.

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The butterfly's most reputable characteristic is the fact that there is an incredible morphing process, during the life cycle of the butterfly. The butterfly starts life as a caterpillar, which cocoons itself in a silky thread. The caterpillar emerges from it's time in the pod, with colorful wings.

The butterflies in the tropical rain forests of the southern hemisphere can get to incredible sizes, with the wings of these butterflies displaying some of the brightest colors in the natural world.

It has been estimated that there are between 15,000 and 20,000 different species of butterfly in the world as more are constantly being discovered particularly in dense jungle regions that have little contact with humans. The different species of butterfly vary in size and color as well as the differences in the bright patterns that are displayed on the wings of the butterfly.

Behavioral defenses include perching and wing positions to avoid being conspicuous. Some female Nymph lid butterflies are known to guard their eggs from parasitoid wasps.

Eye spots and tails are found in many lycaenid butterflies and these divert the attention of predators from the more vital head region. An alternative theory is that these cause ambush predators such as spiders to approach from the wrong end and allow for early visual detection.

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A butterfly's hind wings are thought to allow the butterfly to take swift, tight turns to evade predators.

Many things to learn about butterfly, but all I can say is that; they are one of God’s beautiful creation as wonderful and amazing!

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Alligator: Cruel creature

Have you ever seen an animal as cruel as alligator? What ever it finds, it becomes his meat. A nice lunch for this cruel creature. Both animals and human beings are afraid of this creature.

An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatorade. There are two extant alligatorspecies: the American alligator (Alligator mississippiansis) and the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis).

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The name alligator is an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for "lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator.

There are many adaptations for the American alligator. Baby alligators have an egg tooth that helps them get out of their egg during hatching time. They also have a muscular flat tail that propels them forward while they swim.

Alligators consume food that could not be eaten in one bite by allowing it to rot or by biting and then spinning or convulsing wildly until bite-size chunks are torn off. This is referred to as a "death roll." A hard-wired response developed over millions of years of evolution, even juvenile alligators execute death rolls when presented with chunks of meat. Critical to the alligator's ability to initiate a death roll, the tail must flex to a significant angle relative to its body. An alligator with an immobilized tail cannot do a death roll.

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Most of the muscle in an alligator's jaw evolved to bite and grip prey. The muscles that close the jaws are exceptionally powerful, however the muscles for opening their jaws are relatively weak in comparison. As a result, an adult man can hold an alligator's jaws shut with his bare hands. In general, a strip of duct tape is enough to prevent an adult alligator from opening its jaws and is one of the most common methods used when alligators are to be captured and/or transported. Alligators are generally timid towards humans and tend to walk or swim away if one approaches. Unfortunately, this has led some people to the practice of approaching alligators and their nests in a way that may provoke the animals into attacking. In the state of Florida, it is illegal to feed wild alligators at any time. If fed, the alligators will eventually lose their fear of humans and will learn to associate humans with food, thereby becoming a greater danger to people.

Little have we know about the alligator but one thing for sure is that, they are dangerous and cruel creature.

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Sheep Unique Creature

A very good biblical example of an animal who always follow his master is the sheep. Sheep is considered as a meek animal. Sheep does ot go alone but by group following the shepherd.

Sheep were domsticated by humans around 10,000 BC. They were among the first animals domesticated. As sheep were raised under tamed conditions, they went through several changes. They began to develop more wool and less hair. The color of the wool and hair changed from brown and shades to white and black. Their ears become more of a lop ear than an erect ear. The horns that the wild sheep possessed were weakened and disappear from many breeds. The tails of a wide sheep had less vertebrates or bones than the sheep do now. And todays sheep had a smaller brain.

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Sheep originated from the wild sheep which include the Mouflon (Europe and Western Asia), the Urial (Asia), the Argali (Asia) and the Bighorn (Asia and North America). Domestic sheep originated from the Mouflon, Urial and Argali. Two wild mouflon populations still exist: the Asiatic Mouflon (living in the mountains of Asia Minor and Southern Iran) and the European mouflon (living on the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica).

Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheeps are called rams. A group is called a flock.

Sheep are timid, nervous and easily frightened animals and for the most part defenseless against preditors like cayote and wild dogs. Their only means of survival is to flock together in large no. and run away from the preditors. For this reason, shepherds are able to use dogsto move sheep around. Sheep will consider the dog as preditor, flock together for protection and move away from danger.

Sheep don't like to work in water or moved through narrow openings. They prefer to move into the wind and uphill than downwind and downhill.

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Sheep rank in intelligence just below the pig and even with cattle . They reacted to situations they encounter using instincts that have doveloped over the centuries.

Sheep see in color . The average sheep has a field of vision 270 degrees. The visual can be affected by the amount of wool on the face. They have a poor depth perception. For this reason, sheep will avoid shadows or harsh contrasts between light and dark. They will move towards the light.

Sheep have an excellent sense of hearing. They are more sensitive to high frequency noise than people and get scared by a loud noises.

When sheep are on their back they will need to be helped, because they can't get up from that position.

Sheep really have different characteristics from other animals. That is why they are a unique creature, created by God and even seen many times in the Bible.

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Cow: Food Provider

Cow gives us milk, in some other country they use cow in farming. This is the animal that really contribute a great help not only for farmers but also in society. Cow not only gives us milk, help our farmers, but it also gives us meat.

Dairy cows are those that provides milk. 90% of the worlds milk supply is provided by dairy cows. The best cows give 25 gallons of milk each day. This milk is being use by humans and it gives nutrients and vitamins for the body. Others are being used as an infant formula, thus they considered cow as the second mother because it is cow's milk being feed to human babies.

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Cows meat is called beef. The beef is the meat that is commonly used in menu among cuisine. Many people love beef because for them it has more nutrients than other meat. Cow eats grass and herbs. This herbs and grass has more nutrients. That is why cows meat has more nutrients and it is very rich in protein.

Cow is a kind of animal which have 4 digestive compartments:

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   The rumen holds up to 50 gallons of partially digestive food. This is where cud comes from. Good bacteria in the rumen helps digest the cows food and provideproteins for the cow.
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   The rediculum is called the hardware stomach because if cows accidentally eat hardware (like a piece of fencing scrap) it will often lodge herecausing no further damage.
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   The omasum is a sort of like a filter.
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   The abumasum which is like our stomach.

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Cows drink a bathtub full of water and eat around 40 pounds of food a day. They have 32 teeth. 8 incisors on the bottom front, 6 molars on the top and bottom of each side, a tough pad of skin instead of teeth on the top front.

We should be thankful for God's amazing creature which is the cow, because it gives us many things we need.

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Smallest Monkey of the World

Have you ever seen a monkey that can fit in a teacup, chamelons the size of your thumbnail and hummingbirds that are easily mistaken for insects are just a few examples of the amazingly small creatures found in nature.

The Pygmy Marmoset is one of the example of these tiny creatures. The Pygmy Marmoset is the smallest living monkey. It's head and body length varies from 117-152 mm and its tail length varies from 172-229 mm. That's a total length of around 18 inches on average. The adult weight is in the range 85-140 grams of approximately four ounces on average. Its tawny coat is sprinkled with gray and its tail is ringed. Long hairs on its head and cheeks form a mane which hides its ears. Its eyes are almond shaped.

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They inhabit the Amazon rain forest in Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. They scramble about like squirrels in the deep rain forest and drink the sap of the trees. Since they are so tiny they can climb very high up in the trees on slender branches to find untapped sources of food-the sap and gum of trees.even acacia trees that these little monkeys are happy to eat straight without any mixers. They also like to eat grasshoppers and some other insects when available. They prefer forest with a riverfront view or else flood-plain forests.

They communicate by making high pitched clicks, squeaks, whistles and trills. In fact they can make noise that are so high pitch that humans can't even hear them. They do have a language of sorts, where certain types of calls and squeaks signify danger or other important monkey communications.

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Male pygmy marmosets may make display of strenght and prowess when confronted by other males and competing territory. They do this by raising and flattening their ear tufts, arching their backs, grimacing while eyeing each other and displaying their genitals. Female usually give birth to two and sometimes three babies.

These monkeys are not good pets as they do bite and throw feces. In captivity they are not happy away from their families and are hard to care for. They are not considered as endangered species.

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Giraffe: Tallest Animal

When we try to look at this animal we can see that it is very different from other animals. It's different because of it's look having long neck, long legs and spotted patterns. Giraffes have small "horns" or knobs on top of their heads that grow to be about five inches long. These knobs are used to protect the head in fights.

                                      

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The giraffe is the tallest living animal, uniquely adapted to reach vegetation inaccessible to other herbivores. Giraffes have a distinctive walking gait, moving both right legs forward, then both left. At a gallop, however, the giraffe simultaneously swings the hind legs ahead of and outside the front legs, reaching speeds of 35 miles an hour. It has unusually elastic blood vessels with a series of valves that help offset the sudden buildup of blood (and to prevent fainting) when the head is raised, lowered or swung quickly. Giraffe "horns" are actually knobs covered with skin and hair above the eyes that protect the head from injury.

The Giraffe is non-territorial and social; it lives in very loose, open herds with no specific leaders or coordination of herd mvement. This structure reflects that a giraffe's size makes a “safety in numbers” tactic unnecessary, and that the trees they feed on tend to be spaced apart. Dominance between males is established by “necking”- swinging heads at one another in tyest of strength.         

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Nursery groups of young animals are left alone together during the daywhile their mothers feed. The 6-foot-tall calf grows rapidly as much as an inch a day. By 2 months the young giraffe is eating leaves and at 6 months is fairly independent of its mother. A young giraffe can even survive early weaning at 2 or 3 vmonths. Although few predators attack adult giraffes, lions, hyenas and leopards take their toll on the young. Scientist reports that only a quarter of infants survive their first year of life.

Giraffes live in the savannas of Africa, where they roam freely among the tall trees, arid land, dense forests and open plains.

The giraffe's scientific name, which is similar to its antiquated English name of camelopard, refers to its irregular patches of color on a light background, which bear a token resemblance to a leopard's spots.

Male giraffes are larger than females. Males weigh between 2,400 and 3,000 pounds and stand up to 19 feet The giraffe's scientific name, which is similar to its antiquated English name of camelopard, refers to its irregular patches of color on a light background, which bear a token resemblance to a leopard's spots.tall! Female giraffes weigh between 1,600 and 2,600 pounds and grow to be 16 feet tall.Healthy giraffes live about 25 years in the wild.

This endangered animal attracts people because of it's different appearance and its beauty. We should take care of the animals like giraffe because they are a great contribution to our environment.

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Dolphins: Intelligent Sea Creatures

During the field trip of my son, their teacher brought them to one of the spot where they watched the dolphins play. We've been their and we enjoy watching dolphins play. My son went home satisfied with what he had seen. He enjoyed the moment when he watched those intelligent dolphins played.

Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. All dolphins are toothed whales belonging to the sub-order of the order cetacea.

There are different kinds of dolphins and most of them were intelligent enough to entertain people with their natural ability.

Here are some of their kinds: 

                                               Bottlenose dolphin

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Bottlenose dolphin, is the best known than any other kind of dolphin. It is most common dolphin along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It can also be found in every ocean throughout the whole world, and likes both warm and cool waters. These playful creature are intelligent and known for their disposition and agility. They live in a social groups called pods. A pod can vary in size 5to 100 dolphins in a group. Their color is grey, with the shades of grey varying among populations; can be bluish-grey, brownish-grey, or even nearly black; often darker on the back from the rostrum to behind the dorsal fin. What the bottlenose dolphin does is its beak, full of speed, into a shark. The slam has so much force that the shark's inside organs are damaged. After so many attacks only a couple of sharks can survive. The only way sharks can be sure that they have a dolphin as a meal is by sneaking up on them. This is the reason why scientists think that the 13-foot bottlenose dolphin sleeps with one eye closed. 

                                             Common Dolphins  

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Common dolphins, is highly sociable as are many other dolphins. Common dolphin is the most sociable though. They jump out of the water and then dive right back in perfectly. Not even humans can do that! Since they are very social sea mammals, they travel in school of three thousand. Common dolphins are colorful, with a complex crisscross or hourglass color patern on the side; the long-beaked common dolphin being more muted in color. When looking at the profile of the two common dolphin species, the short beaked common dolphin has a more rounded melon that meets the beak at a sharp angle, as compared to the long beaked common dolphin that has flatter melon that meets the beak at a more gradual angle.

                                                 

                                             Spinner Dolphin

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Spinner dolphins also travel with yellow tuna fish same with bottlenose and common do. Spinner dolphins are identified by the habit which gives them their name. They jump out from the water and spin like tops before diving back into the ocean. The Spinner dolphin is usually dark gray, with darker patches in the tail stock, back and throat. Usually it has a creamy-white patch on the belly, though this varies considerably. Their beaks are distinctively long and thin, with a dark tip. The fins, also, are lengthy for dolphins of this size.

These sea mammals which can give entertainment to the people should not be harm. Let's preserve them. Do them no harm for they are endangered species.

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Elephants:Biggest Useful Animals

Largest and useful animals which lives until now are the elephants. They are being used by the people to help them carry logs and travel people from place to place. It also make an awesome feature in a circus or zoo.


 People from places where elephants are common make use of them by pulling heavy objects. Elephants are not cruel animals they are a friendly and helpful animals.

Elephants are the largest animals now living. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the loungest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kgs. (260 lbs). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.

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Many people hunt and kill elephant because of its tusks. Ussually in mammals tusks are enlarged canine teeth but in elephants they are actually elongated incisors. Tusks are essentially no different from other teeth. A third of the tusk is actually hidden from view, embedded deep into the elephant's head. This part of the tusk is a pulp cavity made up of tissue, blood and nerves. The visible, ivory part of the tusks is made of dentine with an outer layer of enamel.

Elephant ivory is unique which when viewed in cross-section reveals criss-cross lines that forms a series of diamond shapes. Elephants tusk never stop growing so some old bulls display enormous examples. However the average size of the tusks has decreased over the past hundred years because hunting elephants for their ivory has resulted in the 'big tusk gene' becoming increasingly rare.

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An elephants' tusks are a blessing and a curse. Blessing because they give an elephants a true majesty that rise them above other animals as well and being of use for various tasks. A curse because man's avarice for ivory has led to the senseless slaughter of hundred of thousands of the magnificient animals.

This helpful animals needs our care. Though we are not animals care takers but we can take care of them by stop hunting them just to get their tusk. Love the elephant it can give you lots of help.

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www.eleaid.com

SNAKE: Wise Creature

Have you ever heard of a saying, Be wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove. Is it true that snake, (old name serpent) are wise creature? Absolutely yes. I agree with that. Snakes are wise animals because they have their own identity which made them wiser than other creature that were created by God.

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Try to look at this snake. It seems that its just sleeping. Be careful, because its not  the way you look at it. The fact is that, it is just waiting for its victim. Waiting for some other animals to pass by for its meal. This is one of the trick of a snake. It appears to be sleeping in order to deceive passers by.

Looking back at the creation story that was written in the Bible in the book of Genesis, we can read that the snake being used by satan to tempt Eve. The serpent (snake) tempted Eve to eat the fruit ot the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God put in the middle of the garden and instructed Adam and Eve not to eat it. When you try to analize it, you can see how wise is this creature that it even allowed itself to be used by satan to tempt Eve, and Eve was carried out.

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Snakes (serpent) are also good friends. Some people made them their pet. Like magicians, they have pet snakes and they are using them in their magic tricks. Some just love snake to be their pet, it even lie with them in their bed. They're not afraid of it.

How about you? Won't you try training a snake to be your pet? Just be careful, whatever the result it is you who made the decision. 

The World's Greatest Hunter

Lion: the “king of the Jungle” the title always given to a lion, as we often heard, seen and read. The roar of a lion makes other animals in the jungle tremble. Hearing this sound, they run to save themselves from this mighty ferocious hunter. It seems that when they hear the sound, the great hunter is coming and ready to hunt them to tear them in pieces, ready for meal.

The Mighty Lion

Lion is a carnivore (meat eater) and a hunter. It has its powerful forelegs to grab or slap down large prey that would otherwise outrun it. The jaws are short and strong with long canine teeth that are used to quickly kill the prey; either by biting the neck and strangling or by biting the nose and suffocating. The tongue upper surface has small bumps on it which enables the lion to hold on to meat while eating and to remove parasites when grooming. Its legs are short with very powerful muscles enabling it to sprint and bring down large prey. The ability to retract its claws helps in protecting them so they maintain their sharpness.

Lions are more social than most other cat species which are usually solitary by nature. They live in prides composed of three to thirty individuals, related adults females and their young. Each pride has its own social dominant hierarchy in which the weakest male ranks above all females. If a resident males are defeated by new males they will leave the pride and typically never returns.

The male rarely hunts with the pride, perhaps because its mane makes it too obvious.

The prey is eaten by all members of the pride. As each struggles to eat as much as possible, the fight erupt, growling, hissing, and paw swiping. The strongest eat most. Afterwards they all calm down and greet each other affectionately and peaceful cooperative life of the pride continues.

If a pride is taken over by a new male who has defeated the top resident male, he will mostly likely kill any existing cubs that are under 2 years old. This rapidly brings the females into breeding condition, ensuring that the strongest male gets to breed and continue his genetic line.

Lions not only great hunter but also have their own form of government because they know how to step down from their place if ever they are defeated. Sometimes human should learn from lions, we should know how to accept if ever we are defeated and lose, we should learn how to humble down like lions that eventhough they are fierce creature, yet learn to accept defeats in their life.

The Mighty Creation

Every creature that GOD created has its importance and we have something to learn from them.

Lion not only a great hunter but a mighty and strong creature in the jungle. Learn to love nature by preserving God's creature.

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wikipedia/google.com

Eagle: A Magnificient Bird

Birds of prey are fascinating birds; said to be direct descendants from the raptor of pre-historic times, the most magnificient birds of the prey are EAGLES.

Eagles are diferent from many other birds of prey mainly by their large size, more powerful build and beak. Even the smallest eagles, have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings, and more direct faster flight. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from the vulture. Like all birds of prey, eagles have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong muscular legs, and powerful talons. They also have extremly keen eyesight which enables them to spot potential prey from a very long distance. This keen eyesight is primarily contributed by their extremely large pupils which ensure minimal diffraction (scattering) of the incoming light.

There are about 59 kinds of Eagles and they fall into four different groups.

*Sea or Fish Eagles

*Snakes Eagles

*Harpy Eagles

*Booted Eagles

Sea or Fish Eagles

Sea or Fish eagles are large, powerful and long-winged eagles that have elaborate flight displays. These eagles do not have feathers on the lower part of their legs, but do have rough surfaces on the pads of their feet for holding slippery fish and have large beaks for penetrating fish skins. They are usually found near bodies of water.

Snakes Eagles

Snakes eagles are classified by their choice of food; snakes. They will feast upon a variety of snakes and are typically found in the forests and savannas of Africa, Australia and Europe.

Harpy Eagles

Harpy eagles can b identified by plumage atop their heads. There are six types of harpy eagles (crowned eagles, solitary eagles, New Guinea Eagles, crested eagles, Philippine Eagle and harpy eagles), and their habitat is found in the tropical lowland forests of Southern Brazil, Southern Mexico, and Northern Argentina. They prefer hunting in dense forests, and their diet mainly consists of monkeys, sloths and opossums. Occasionally harpy eagles feeds on smaller birds and reptiles. Typical or booted eagles range in size and shape from small accipiter-like hawk-eagles to large, long-winged, soaring eagles. This group includes the Golden Eagle, which is found around the world and has learned to hunt and eat almost anything it can catch. Golden eagles eat rabbits, snakes, squirrels, and other birds even small dogs.

We should take care of our forests where most of the eagles live, let's do no harm to them (eagle) for they are God's creature that adds beauty to our nature..

Resources:Wikipedia

Perigrinefund.org

ehow.com/eagle's diet

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