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Animals of Antartica

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — July 18, 2009 / 11:02 pm

At the moment you are hearing Antartica, what is/are animals that pop up in your mind? Most of you must be thinking about penguin. Well, you get a score, penguin is one of Antartica animals. What about other animals? Do you have any idea? Actually, there are some kinds of other animals that have not [...]

Whales Are Not Fish

1 comment Yessi Pratiwi — July 3, 2009 / 8:47 pm

If you still think that whales are fish, you’d better change that mind just now. Well, it really seems like a fish, huge fish, but in fact, it’s not a fish. There are many differences between fish and whales. Whales are much bigger than fish. Fish stay underwater all the time and breathe through gills that take [...]

Vampire Bat

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 5, 2009 / 3:50 pm

In my mind, one of the most scary flying animal is the vampire bat. Why scary? Why do you think I said them scary? Ah, come confess me, U’re also scared seeing this animals :p Is that because their food source is blood?  Actually, it is because this bat feeds mostly on the blood of mammals. In [...]

Blackbuck

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 5, 2009 / 1:39 pm

The blackbuck is a powerfull gazelle native to the Indian subcontinent. Extremely long twisted horns are the key feature of adult males, and these twist out to lengths of up to 68 cm (27 in). The sexes are also separated by colouration : the females are light faw in colour whereas the males are dark [...]

How Mammals Regulate Their Body Temperature

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 26, 2009 / 7:06 pm

A fundamental connection between mammals is that they are endothermes–they maintain their cotre body temperature within a relatively narrow and constant range, the heat produced being a by-product of food digestion. In most mammals except marsupials, the temperature range is between 36° Celcius (96.8°F) nad 40°C (104°F); marsupials have a range of 27°C (80.6F) to [...]

Many Cats Don’t Have Eyelashes

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 20, 2009 / 9:37 pm

When I was kid, I like to play with my cats very much. I had 3 cats, I named them : Vini, Vidi, Vici. Hahaha, those name I borrowed from Julius Caesar One of my favorite thing to do with the cats was cutting their eyelashes. Yes, that hair above their eyes. But I [...]

Camels Do Not Store Water in Their Humps

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 13, 2009 / 11:00 pm

While most animals can not survive of desolate places like dessert, mountains, and other arid places, camels can. Camel is one of animals that has a great survive ability. Why? Is that because their large source of water in their humps? Well, if you still think that camels store water in their humps, you have to [...]

Cat’s Eyes Color

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — January 25, 2009 / 12:33 pm

Have you ever realized the change of your cat’s eyes color? Sometimes they are green, sometimes blue, and they could be yellow as well. The eye color of cat influenced by two factors. First, is the actual iris pigment. First is the actual pigmentof the iris. Iris has such a biological pigment called melanin and [...]

Jump, Rabbit!

1 comment Yessi Pratiwi — January 23, 2009 / 4:22 pm

Rabbits are funny, lovable and cute animals. Kids like to play with them so much, this fact is related to their nature, they have a need of companionship from its surrounding.They like human affection very much. They lick and nibble on their owner to express affection. Many people think that rabbits are rodents, well, they arent! [...]

Horses Take Care of Their Friend!

Comments Off Yessi Pratiwi — January 17, 2009 / 6:02 pm

Horse is a beautiful mammal that we can find all around the world. In Latins, they are called Equus caballus . Among the country that have horses, China may be a country with most horses, because they have 10,000,000 horses! What a great number, huh? You know, there are some fun facts about horse : [...]

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