Tiger

Image
Tiger is an alluring creature known for his power, vigor and prowess [bravery]. The term tiger arise from  the greek word tigris, which means arrow. The tiger is the largest cat species that has a coat of yellow  and brown fur and body covered with black stripes. Tiger is the national animal of India, Malaysia,  Bangladesh and south korea. Different species of tiger represents different countries. There are seven Major levels of Classification of a tiger. They are: Kingdom: animalia Species: panthera tigris. Family: felidae. Genus: panthera. Class: mammalia. Phylum: chordata. Order: carnivora. Where they are found: Wild tigers are found in Asia. The large sub species of tiger including Siberian tiger lives in northern,  colder places such as northern and eastern china and eastern Russia. The smaller subspecies of tiger  lives in southern, warmer places, like India, laos, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan,  Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia, and they are habitat of grasslands,

How old is a white rhinoceros?

The white rhinoceros is one of the 5 types of rhinocerótidos that exist at present. It is likewise the biggest rhino species on the planet: a grown-up can achieve 3,500 kg and achieve 4 meters in length and 1.8 meters high. The white rhinoceros really has dark skin, in spite of the name given to it by the English result of the homophony of "white" with the Dutch word for width. The last alludes to the expansive lip which, together with the projection on the back and the more pointed ears, are particular elements of this rhinoceros. 

Future of a white rhinoceros

White rhinos have a future like that of elephants, since they normally live between around 40 and 50 years, albeit a few people are blessed to achieve 60 years of life, a high figure for a warm blooded animal land.

Of the two existing subspecies of white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum cottoni, with just four people in August 2006, is basically imperiled, that is, it runs a to a great degree high danger of eradication in the wild, while Ceratotherium simum, With more than 21,000 people, is grouped just as "Practically undermined" and its populace and circulation are continually developing, as we can read in the entrance represented considerable authority in rhinoceroses: rinoceronteswiki.com.

The white rhino right up 'til the present time is still the subject of poaching in Africa. Rhinos are anything but difficult to chase for poachers since they are shy of sight and don't recognize for all intents and purposes anything from 20 meters away, however white rhinos are still simpler to chase, since they permit the seekers to approach 10 Meters.

There is a peril of the impacts of relationship, since the larger part of people originate from around twenty people who, toward the start of the twentieth century, survived a practically add up to eradication. Rhinos repeat with numerous troubles in zoos.


  
The white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is a species of perisodactyl mammal of the Rhinocerotidae family.2 It is the largest of the five species of rhinoceroses that currently exist, the fourth largest terrestrial animal and the fourth heaviest terrestrial mammal after the Three species of elephants. It can reach 4.2 meters in length and 1.85 meters in height. It is one of the two rhinoceros species that live in the African savannah, the other is the black rhinoceros. Both have two horns and are moderately threatened because of poaching.

White rhinoceroses are gray, a little lighter than black rhinoceros, but their name is not due to this, but a curious mistake. In the 17th century, when the first Dutch settlers arrived in South Africa, they called this animal wijde ( "wide") in reference to its straight and wide lip, quite different from the beaked lip of the other African rhinoceros. The British, who settled in Cape Town from 1806, mistakenly believed that what the Dutch said was white, the English word for similar pronunciation.


The wide and straight lip is due to the fact that this animal feeds preferably on grasses that it collects from the ground, whereas the black rhinoceros does it of shrub vegetation. Thanks to this the two species of African rhinoceros, otherwise very similar in habits, can coexist in the same ecosystem. Mating does not occur at a specific time, and females give birth to a single offspring every 4 or 5 years, when the previous one has matured. 


The rhinoceros horn is not a true horn like that of cows or that of bulls when it does not grow from the skull, nor a tusk, like that of elephants when it does not grow from the mouth. It is rather a hardness in the area of ​​the nose and is formed by keratin the same material that forms our nails and hair.3 Thus, if the horn breaks in a fight can get to regenerate, even growing 7 centimeters a year.

characteristics

The word "rhino" comes from the Greek terms rhino (nose) and kera (horn), and literally means "horned nose" and refers to the characteristic horns on the muzzle, which are also a valued trophy and the main reason Of his hunting. Unlike the horns of other species, such as antelope, rhinoceroses do not have a bony nucleus, but are made of keratin, the same substance that forms hairs and nails in other mammals. The two African species and the rhinoceros of Sumatra have two horns, while the Indian and the Java have only one.The rhinoceros family is characterized by its large size, being of the few species considered megafauna existing today, along with elephants and hippos; All species may exceed at least one tonne weight. All are herbivores, and have a thick and resistant skin, between 1.5 and 5 cm thick, formed by superposed layers of collagen. They have relatively small brains for their body size (between 400 and 600 g). Although they usually feed on leaves, their ability to ferment food in the colon allows them to survive by consuming more woody plant matter, such as roots and branches, if necessary. Unlike other peridodactyls, African rhinoceros species do not have teeth in the front of the mouth, using to chew a few powerful premolars and molars to crush food of plant origin.2 The dental formula varies from species to species.


Rhinoceroses have a keen sense of smell and a sensitive but very poor hearing. Their maximum life expectancy is about 60 years. The length of the head and body is 240 to 315 cm in the rhinoceros of Sumatra and 335 to 420 cm in the white rhinoceros. The weight, which is 800 kg in the rhinoceros of Sumatra, can reach 3,600 kg in the white rhinoceros considering it the second largest terrestrial animal after the elephant.

All species are perisodactyla; That is, they have a more developed central finger on each leg, which serves as the main support, and two smaller fingers on the sides. That gives the traces the characteristic appearance of an ace of clover. In the case of the white rhinoceros and the Indian rhino, adult males are much larger than females, but in the other males and females they have a similar size.


Rhinos have poor vision, although they are able to distinguish a still person up to about 30 m away. The eyes are located on both sides of your head. His ear is very fine, and the ears are of tubular type, moving rapidly in the direction from which the sound comes. But its most developed sense is smell; The amount of olfactory tissue in the snout exceeds the size of the brain.

Feeding 

All rhinos are herbivores and need a lot of food every day to maintain their great volume. They can tolerate relatively high fiber foods in their diet, thanks to their colon's ability to ferment and digest woody vegetable tissue, but prefer more nutritious and supple parts when available. The two African rhinoceros species have lost their front teeth, and although Asian species retain incisors (and the Sumatran rhinoceros even canines), these pieces have been adapted more to fight than to feed. However, each species has adapted to the consumption of one type of vegetable matter. The black rhinoceros has a prehensile upper lip that it uses to break the ends of the branches of woody plants. The white rhinoceros, on the other hand, has an elongated skull and wide lips that it uses to graze the short herbs. The Indian rhinoceros also has a prehensile upper lip, which it uses to obtain tall grasses and small shrubs. Both the Java rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhino often knock down small trees to eat their leaves and shoots, and all species except white include some fruits in their diet. All rhinos drink almost daily, but in arid conditions they can survive for four or five days without drinking. The Indian rhinoceros spends long periods in the water, while African species often prefer to wallow in the mud. Although the water refreshes them, the mud protects them against the bites of flies and other insects.



Reproduction 

White rhinoceros and Indian females begin their sexual cycles around the age of five, and their first offspring between six and eight years old. Black rhinoceros females, which are smaller, are fertile a year earlier. As a rule, all species have only one calf per calving, although the presence of two mammals has led to speculation about the possibility of gestation of two calves in exceptional cases. The interval between successive procreations is at least twenty-two months, although it is usually between two and four years. The hatchlings are small at birth, weigh about 65 kg in the case of the white and Indian rhinoceros and 40 kg in the black rhinoceros, and can follow the step of their mothers three days after birth.

Males have the ability to procreate between seven and eight years of age, but do not usually reproduce at least until the age of ten. A peculiarity of rhinoceroses is that the testicles do not descend into the scrotum, and the penis, when retracted, is directed backwards. The females have two breasts located between the two hind legs. Births occur in any month of the year, but in the case of African rhinos the births occur in greater numbers between the end of the rainy season and the mid-dry season.

Behavior 

The rhinoceros is a solitary and territorial animal. As a rule, there is only an association between a mother and her young offspring, and adult males of all species are only temporarily associated with females in the time of estrus. Among the white rhinoceroses, and sometimes in the Indians, immature animals form pairs, and sometimes constitute more numerous groups. The white rhinoceros is the most sociable of the five species, and females without offspring sometimes meet and accept the company of one or more immature animals, with the possibility of forming persistent groups of up to seven individuals.

Both males and females always move in the same zones or territories, varying in size according to species and genus (9 to 15 km females of white and Indian rhinoceros, 3 to 90 km of black rhinoceros), and Which mark olfactory form through their feces and their urine. The faeces are deposited and then dispersed to coces. When they patrol regions bordering on their territories, they urinate relatively often. In all species the territories of the females overlap extensively and there are no signs of territoriality among them. Although, while white rhino females often have friendly contacts rubbing their noses, those of the Indian rhinoceros usually respond aggressively to any proximity. Males, however, tend to deal with any other male that invades their territory. In the same way, both the white and the Indian rhinoceros frequently respond with aggressive attacks when they are disturbed, but very often their burdens are nothing more than blind attacks intended to drive the intruder away.



In their confrontations, the rhinos repeat the same gestures again and again until one of them surrenders. The animals facing each other squeeze the horns against each other and push themselves; They do not usually carry one against another, as do other horned mammals, since the combined mass of both would suffice to crush their skulls or break their necks at the moment of impact. Once the conflict is over, the dominant male proclaims his supremacy by expelling a spray of pulverized urine while the subordinate male retreats. The owner of a territory that is defeated stops marking it with urine and spreading its excrement, and assumes the status of subordinate male.


The longevity of rhinoceros varies from the thirty-two years of rhinoceros of Sumatra to the forty-five years of the white and Indian rhinoceros, although they can live until the sixty years or more.

Taxonomy

The following subspecies are :
  •  Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
  •  Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Animals

Red Ara Macaw

Elephant

Tiger

Organic Dog

Can lion kills a Tiger ?

Dogs 3

What are the differences between Bengal Tigers and Siberian Tigers in Physical?

Dogs 6

Dogs 1