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The shaggy spider ? formidable enemy of birds
2008-05-13 00:55:00
This being is very big (it can be for 15 cm) and poisonous. They inhabit only in the tropics. There may be roughly 600 species of spider-robbers. Some of them, which are the largest, are not poisonous for people. Another spider?s stings are mortal for people. Big spiders hunt in the night. They don?t like sunlight and hide in the grass, under ground in the holes, under trees roots. Spider s don?t have so paws so as a mole but they can dig rather deep hole. Shaggy spiders don?t make web, they usually attack their prey. Thanks to little hairs on the spider?s paws they can climb along the trees. Spiders can fall from the highest trees and don?t hurt oneself: their paws help like a parachute. Hairs are very thin and brittle on the spider?s paws, so you don?t touch he: these hairs are like splinters and your hand can get inflamed because of them.
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Miracles of Mauritius
2007-12-13 21:39:00
A bird that couldn?t fly.Scientists have found bits as a skeleton of one of the most famous of all extinct animals, the dodo. The dodo was a big bird, that couldn?t fly. It died out more than 300 years ago. Scientists say that the fat clumsy dodo was hunted to extinction by people. They also think, that the bird didn?t do much to help itself survive. The dodo was known to be slow-moving and not afraid of people, hunted it. Even the bird?s name, dodo, comes from the Portuguese, word for ?fool?.Gerald Durrell, the famous writer and zoologist, thought that the dodo died out because of human?s irresponsibility. The dodo lived in a Mauri tius island in the Indian Ocean. There weren?t predators in the island, so the dodo and many other birds didn?t know what is danger. Their nests were not on the trees but on the ground. People brought dogs, cats, rats, pigs, monkeys in the island. They have suppressed the inhabitants of this little world, and people were the most dangerous predator. They ...
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SUPERHEROES!
2007-10-09 20:56:00
Some animals can do much better than the famous sportsmen!Sea snakes can dive 100 meters deep and stay under the water for up to 5 hours. Some sea snakes can swim at the rate of 1 meter per second.Incredibly, the sailfish can swim faster than a cheetah can run. Its top speed is 109 km an hour.Squirrel monkeys sometimes leap straight into the air from the tree tops to catch insects. Sometimes these leaps are up to 60 meters.
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Two-headed snake
2007-10-06 22:08:00
This wonderful snake have two heads. One day one ten-year-old American boy from Kentucky tried to pick up a snake with a stick and then noticed, that it is two-headed! Imagine how surprised he was when the snake grabbed the stick with both heads!Two-headed snakes are not as rare as you might think. They have been found in the Unated States, Argentina, Honduras, Sri Lanka and Spain. Gordon Burdhardt, zoologist at the university of Tennessee, has studied several two-headed snakes. And every time the heads were so independent they even fought for food.Sometimes the heads become so aggressive they can even try to eat each other!Two-headed snakes also have a great deal of difficultly deciding which direction to do. That?s probably because one head wants to turn left and the other one wants to turn right.A lack of understanding between two heads can lead to even greater difficulties: a predator would quickly swallow the hesitant snake.?So their chances of surviving in the wild are nil?, ?...
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Parrot fish, lionfish and clown fish
2007-09-26 22:30:00
The blue parrot fish, as the name suggest, has beaklike jaws. When young, these fish are light blue. They turn darker blue as they get older.The lionfish is one of the most unusual creatures on the reef. Its spines are very poisonous and can be dangerous even to humans. The lionfish uses its spines to defend itself, not to attack.On of the biggest dangers to the Great Barrier Reef are the thorny starfish which multiply in huge numbers and crunch their way through the living corals. Few creatures will eat them as they are quite poisonous. The clown fish lives among the tentacles of large sea anemones. This brightly colored fish is immune to the anemone?s stinging tentacles. It helps to attract other fish that the anemone catches and eats. So the clown fish is in safety and isn?t hungry.
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Great Barrier Reef, or The magic underwater world
2007-09-24 20:26:00
Hello! Today post is not about animals, but about very interesting thing - barrier reef :PThe Australian Great Barrier Reef is a largest coral reef in the world. It?s 2000 km. long and can be seen from space! Just take a look at this natural wonder!Corals make wonderful shapes. Some look like trees, others look like flowers. There are more than 400 types of coral in the Great Barrier Reef. Corals are tiny animals that live only in warm seas. They need warmth and bright sunlight all the year round. When many corals grow in the same place they make a coral reef.  The edge of the reef facing the ocean often forms a steep cliff. There are more then 1.500specials of fish and 4000 types of mollusk in the Great Barrier Reef. They are all the colors of the rainbow.In spite of its colorful markings, this angelfish can be hard to see among the bright colors.
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Jellyfish: slippery and wonderful
2007-09-23 20:21:00
After some days of inactive the blog comes back :) I hope that new post will be published daily.New post is about Jellyfish .Jellyfish have been around for 650 million years. They were here before dinosaurs and sharks! Scientists think there may be 2000 species of jellyfish. They come in all sorts of color: from pale pink or blue to bright orange-red or screaming yellow.Some jellyfish are transparent. Jellies also range in size from about two and a half centimeters to more than two meters long. Jellyfish are more than 95 % water and have no heart, bones, or brain, and no real eyes.Where there?s water ? from icy polar seas to tropical Pacific shores ? there are jellyfish.Some of them live in fresh water. All jellyfish sting, but not all jellyfish have poison, that hurts humans. Of the 2000 species of jellyfish only about 70 seriously harm or occasionally kill people.The most dangerous jellyfish are:- Australian box jellyfish;- Lion?s mane;- Portuguese man-of-war;- Sea Nettle.The Austr...
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The fisherman has caught the monster which has died out 80 million years ag
2007-08-22 17:53:00
Some news from Indonesia: :)Indonesian fisherman has luck: he caught the ancient alive fossil fish. Its length was 1,3 meters and weight was 50kg. Justinus Laama was fishing on the Sulawesi Island, when he caught a Coelacanth into his fishing net. Coelacanth is a fish from Crossopterygii group, extinct in the Cretaceous period."That monster have foots and green phosphor eyes", - Justinus told.Laama sailed to the port and released Coelacanth to pond, which is owned by fish restaurant. Here the fish lives for 17 hours. After this, fish was caught again and, then, has been freeze. Coelacanth was widespread fishes allover the world in Devonian period - more than 360 millions years ago. That huge, meaty fished, covered by bluish thick scales, with paired find and third-blades tail. They eat other fish by catching the victim with small teeth and entirely swallow it. As was considered earlier, that kind of fishes has disappeared from the person of the Earth 80 million years ago.In 1938 on ...
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Yellow crazy ants - Australian nightmare
2007-08-21 20:53:00
"This tiny ant will destroy our culture, our ground, our life so we should kill it right now" sad the Australian ranger from the Christmas Island. For killing that yellow mad ants, helicopters rise to the sky.So, why that ants is so dangerous?Crazy , and also mad (Yellow Crazy Ants ), these ants have been named for feverish behavior and chaotic movements. On scientific classification, a name of those ants is "Anoplolepis gracilipes".This yellow long-lagged small insect, according to the "Database of the most dangerous aggressors on a global scale" (Global Invasive Species Database), is the one of the most aggressive species on a planet and included into the "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species".Entomologists consider, that the native land of these insects is the Western Africa, India or China. They spread all over the world with help of human being. Development of trade assists to the invasion of the ants because these aggressors can travel practically in everything: in g...
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A tiny scorpion - pseudoscorpion
2007-08-20 20:04:00
That post is about funny insect - pseudoscorpion.Pseudoscorpion (false scorpion), common name for any of a group of small arachnids that look like little scorpions but have no scorpion's long tail and sting. You can meet Pseudoscorpions in leaf litter and soil, under rocks, and on intertidal algae. Some are phoretic-that is, they "travel" on other insects, such as beetles and flies. Some pseudoscorpion species live together with other arthropods, such as large beetles or ants. ~2000 species of pseudoscorpions are known.  The abdomen is elliptic with wide junction with the rectangular carapace, the shell-like covering of the head and top part of the body. The chelicerae, or grasping pincers, are little and are equipped with structures for cleaning the mouthparts. The pedipalps, smaller, pincerlike appendages, have poison glands opening at the tips. On some parts of the body are numerous trichobothria, or sensory hairs, which can sense small air currents. Pseudoscorpions move slowly,...
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Photos of sea monsters
2007-08-19 20:04:00
Today i find some photos of water creatures. Hope you will enjoy this. Sometimes its really incredibly :)1. Chimaeras. Shark-ghost or Rabbitfish. Poisonous thorns on fins.  2. Viperfish. Viper. All is clear: canines and a jaw.  3. Pelican eel. Grig.The squid found in a stomach.5. Colossal Squid. The giant. Ktulhu fhtagn!6. ?cean sunfish. Moonfish. Mola mola. Reaches at length of 3 m and weights of 1410 kg. Capture of a supergiant in length of 5,5 m is fixed. 7. Stargazers. Poison, canines, electroshock. A hypnotizing sight.  8. Grenadiers (rattails). The grenadier. A rat tail.  Male sounds similar to drumbeat to involve female.9. Oarfish. Oar. A greater fish, 11 meters.  10. Megamouth shark. Deep-water.  11. Fangtooths. Canines. 12. Firefly squid. A glowworm. Scientists approve, that it is only one of cephalopoda,which have color sight.13. Handfish. A small fish with handles. It is covered by poisonous thorns, walks on a bottom.14. Coffin fish. A coffin. The dangerous ugly creature....
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