Monday, December 13, 2010

How many baby giraffes can be born at the time?

Actually the mother can only have one baby giraffe. But on rare occasions it can have twins, but this is very rare. Hope this was helpful. Baby giraffes seem to be a bit out of proportion when they are small. Their necks to be a bit too short in relation to their legs and their horns are still small with the hair on it still a bit fluffy.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Offspring And Maternal Care

Female hyenas isolate before whelping and speed up to five hours/night  attending small cubs during two visits to natal den. After cubs start eating soild food at three months mother brings them to communal den whitch may be in continuous use for several years thereafter attends cubs only once a night. Juveniles older than eight months are left unattded for two to three nights.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The black-footed ferret

Black- footed ferrets are nocturnal and primarly hunt for sleeping prairie dogs in their burrows. Though they will also eat mice and other small mammals, birds, and insects, a single black- footed ferret eats about 100 prairie dogs a year and cannot survive without access to large colonies of them. In the wild, black-footed ferrets spend about 99 percent of their time underground. Ferret mating seasons last from March-April. The number of kits born ranges from one to seven  but most commonly only three or four are born.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Other Color Variations

Other rare color morphs of the species include speckles, melanism, albinism and gray coloration.Most have been reported in Indian cheetahs, particularly in captive specimens kept for hunting.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Why do cheetah have fur?

The cheetahs fur helps it blend in . . . for instance take a plastic animal with spots and trow it down on the ground that matches its. . . Hard to see yea??? It would be better to have a plastic cheetah and throw it down on dead grass just so you get how it looks on the Savvanna though. . .

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Did You Know?

Cheetahs are the only big cats with solid spots. They also have stripes at the ends of their tails. 
Servals also have solid spots but they are smaller cats and they are easy to identify because their ears are huge.

Leopards have rosettes of spots and their bodies are more compact and muscular.

King cheetahs are different.They actually have what appear to be large thick stripes. However they are rare ( most likely extinct in the wild) and they look like spotted cheetahs in every other way.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The mother cheetah hides with the cubs. The cubs are covered in camouflage that helps them hide in bushes.

Cheetahs don't leave their kills up trees, but hide it in the bush, as they have blunt non retractable claws.

Monday, October 18, 2010

A cheetah can be found almost anywhere in wild grassland and desert habitats in Africa but are most common in the plains of southern and eastern Africa. The Namib and Kalahari deserts and in particular the Maasai Mara and Serengeti parks are good places to see cheetahs.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

What Cheetahs Eat

Duiker
Impala
 
                                                                           Springbok

                                                                          Steenbok
 
Warthog
Cheetahs live for about fifteen years and can attain a mass of about 60 kg.They prey on small antelope, like Sprigbok, Steenbok, Impala, Duiker and Warthog

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Did You Know?
Cheetah's are the fastest land mammal in the world -in the 1900's there were an estimated 100,000 cheetah's worldwide and now there are only 10-15,000 with 1/10 of them living in captivity. Three to five cubs are born per litter but when only one is born many times the mother will abandon them and they are raised in captivity. Cheetah cubs are often preyed upon by  lions, leopards, and  hyenas. They are killed for their furs- and because of loss of habitat and conflict with humans the cheetah population has been declined. They could become extinct in the next fifteen years. 

Thursday, October 7, 2010

List of Savanna and Grassland Animals

  1. Black-footed ferret
  2. Black-tailed prairie dog
  3. Brown hyena
  4. Giraffe
  5. Greater prairie chicken
  6. Ostrich
  7. Pronghorn
  8. Warthog
  9. Black rhinoceros
  10. Afican wild dog
  11. Koala bear
  12. Lion
  13. Caracal
  14. Nile crocodile
  15. Afican elephant
  16. Eygptian mongoose
  17. Nigriceps ants
  18. Emu
  19. Grant's zebra
  20. Chacma baboon
  21. Black mampa
  22. Cheetah's

Monday, October 4, 2010

Did You Know?
Unlike other big cats, cheetahs cannot roar. However they can purr on both inhale and exhale like domestic cats.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Did You Know?
When the cheetahs are running, they use their tails to help them steer and turn in the direction they want to go, like the rudder of a boat.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Informaition on Cheetahs

The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. Cheetahs are slender and their long-legged body is built for speed. The color of the cheetah is tan with black spots all over its body. The cheetah can also be distinguished from other big cats by their smaller size, spotted coats, small heads and ears and distinctive "tear stripes" that stretchs from the corner of the eye to the side of  the  nose.