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.
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
Monday, October 18, 2010
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
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
- Black-footed ferret
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Brown hyena
- Giraffe
- Greater prairie chicken
- Ostrich
- Pronghorn
- Warthog
- Black rhinoceros
- Afican wild dog
- Koala bear
- Lion
- Caracal
- Nile crocodile
- Afican elephant
- Eygptian mongoose
- Nigriceps ants
- Emu
- Grant's zebra
- Chacma baboon
- Black mampa
- Cheetah's
Monday, October 4, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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.
Monday, September 20, 2010
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