Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I am crazy for bird watching. Silly as it may sound, growing up a city girl with pigeons, crows and seagulls, the rare event of seeing a beautiful Wood Duck or peculiar Crossbill, speaks to me. This is why I have involved my kids in three outdoor hobbies that help ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
There are two owls that are in competition for the smallest owl in the world; the Northern Pygmy Owl and the Elf Owl; either one could be classified as such depending on the individual being measured. The Northern Pygmy Owl is between 16 and 18 centimeters, while the Elf Owl ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The smallest goat in the world is the Nigerian Dwarf Goat and as its name suggests, is native to West Africa. They measure between 40 and 56 centimeters tall at the shoulder and weight between 27 to 36 kilograms. These goats are easily domesticated and live on several different continents. ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Alligators and crocodiles are both crocodilians; but from different families. There are three separate families of crocodilians: Aligatoridae include alligators and caimans, Crocodylidae include crocodiles and Gavialidae include only the gharial. This is only the difference in classification; there are many physical differences between the two animals.
Alligators are found in ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The difference between frogs and toads begins with their Order. If you can remember back to your biology days, the classifications system for every living thing goes Kingdom (Animalia), Phylum (Chordata), Class (Amphibia), Order (Anura - which includes frogs and toads). After Order, they break into two different families. Frogs ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
By far, the biggest animal in the world is the blue whale. It can reach lengths of just over 30 meters and weigh up to 136 tonnes. It can be found in almost all the world's oceans. The blue whale was nearly extinct until a ban on hunting was introduced ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
It is a close tie between the Polar bear and the Kodiak bear; a subspecies of brown bear found only in Alaska. The polar bear wins out weighing between 300 and 600 kg and are 2 to 3 meters long. They reside in the Canadian north, Alaska (USA), Greenland, Norway ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The largest bird in the world is the ostrich, a flightless bird that weighs up to 160 kg and stands almost 3 m. high. Although the ostrich is native to Africa, ostriches are farmed around the world including countries as far north as Finland. An ostrich egg weighs approximately 1.4 ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
With all jokes about pleasingly plump house cats aside, the biggest cat in the world is the Siberian Tiger. The only wild population of this tiger left in the world can be found in North Eastern China, the Amur region in Russia's far east and a very few in North ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest dog in the world can be measured by weight or by height, so here is the breakdown:
Among the two heaviest breeds in the world are the Saint Bernard weighing in between 72 and 110 kilos and the English Mastiff whose weight can be over 91 kilos. The Guinness ...
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