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For the first time in Saint Louis Zoo history, a cheetah has given birth to 8 cheetah cubs .
Awww look at their faces! I want to cuddle them!!
But I wont.
The largest and deepest sinkhole in the world is Xiaozhai Tiankeng, in Fengjie, China. Its name means something like "well of heaven" or "heavenly."
With its 662 meters deep, 626 meters long and 537 meters wide, it is one of the most impressive natural attractions on Earth.
In addition to a great variety of fauna and flora, it is home to an underground river that measures a total of 8.5 km that ends in a spectacular waterfall. In the rainy season, a waterfall is also generated at the mouth of the sinkhole.
by elliothawkey
🌿Maned Wolf🌿
Its scientific name is Chrysocyon Brachyurus. It belongs in the phylum of Chordota, the class of Mammalia(mammals), the order of Carnivora(carnivores), the family of Canidae(canids) and it's the only member of the genus Chrysocyon(it means golden dog in ancient greek).
About their weight most of my sources said that they weigh around 23kg (on average probably, because there were some sites that said they weigh around 20-30kg) and the pups around 340-430kg(when they are born). Their height ranges from 80 to 90cm on the shoulder and they are 145-190cm long with their tail being 28-40cm. It is the largest Canid in South America.
Their natural habitat consists of semi-open areas, grasslands, wet and dry forests, savannas, marshes, wetlands, dry shrub forests and swampy areas. They can be found in central-west and southerneastern Brazil, Paraguay,northern Argentina and Bolivia east and north of the Andes and far southerneastern Peru(Pampas del Heath only). It is very rare in Uruguay, possibly even displaced(on one of the sources it was mentioned that they went extinct in Uruguay and Argentina, though I only read about them being rare or extinct only in Uruguay in the rest of the sites).
Their lifespan in the wild is unknown and in captivity it is around 12-15 years. Their population today reaches 23,600 wolves.
Maned wolves are mostly active during the twilight period, which makes them Crepuscular animals. They are omnivores, with the 50%(or more) of their diet consisting of fruits and vegetables, they also eat small mammals(armadillos, rabbits, rodents, etc), birds, bird eggs, reptiles, fish, insects, gastropods and other terrestrial mollusks. Their favourite food and most common food item in their diet is Solanum Lycocarpum, or lobeira(= wolf's plant), or fruta-do-lobo(= wolf's fruit), or just wolf plant (in Wikipedia they called it wolf apple but everywhere else they referred to it as one of the above so.), it is a tomato-like fruit and it belongs in a species of flower shrub.
As I already mentioned their diet is mostly vegetables and fruits based, meat heavy diets have been proven to lead to the development of bladder stones.
Going into hunting habits, they are solitary hunters, they rotate their ears to listen for their prey in the grass. They stalk and chase their prey, they jump to catch birds midair, tap the ground to flash out the prey and pounce to catch it. They kill it by biting it on their neck or back and shaking it violently if necessary.
They have 42 teeth total as adults and given that they don't kill or hunt large prey, their upper carnassials (shearing teeth) are reduced, their upper incisors are weak and their canines are long and slender.
Maned wolves do not howl, but they emit loud barks or roar barks to let their mate know where they are and to warn other wolves to stay away. They use urine(that smells like cannabis or hops) and feces, along their borders, to mark their territory.
Pairs share overlapping territory around 25-30km². They meet only to mate during the breeding season, other than that they are independent from each other. They are monogamous and form lifelong bonds. Breeding season is controlled by photoperiod, between October and February in the northern hemisphere and between August and October in South America in captivity. Little is known about the reproductive patterns of wild maned wolves, most of our information on it comes from captive animals. Females are monoestrus, with the estrus lasting for around four days.
The gestation period lasts around 65 days and around 1-5 pups are born, in well hidden nests. The pups' eyes and ears open in day 9 of their lives. They are born with black pelage and in 10 weeks it turns red. The pups are nursed for four weeks and by then their parents feed them by regurgitation for the next 10 months and they are weaned by 15 weeks. 3-month-old pups begin to accompany their mother while she forages. Both parents engage in parental care (though it is primarily done by the mother). The pups are fully grown by the age of 1 year and this is when they leave their parents' territory.
The main threat to this species is habitat loss, but other threats are also road kills, hunting and human activities(deforestation, urban growth etc). They are listed in IUCN as near threatened, in IBAMA and ICMBio as vulnerable species and in CITES in the appendix II category (the appendix reflects the level of threat posed by international trade).
Quick edit to say that despite their appearance and name this species is not closely related to wolves nor foxes.
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Hello there, just a quick post with different definitions(?) of words and my psots, it will be updated in general.
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🌿Maned wolf
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Cathemeral animals: those which are sporadically active during parts of both day and night
Crepuscular animals: those which are primarily active during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine, or both.
Diurnal animals: those which are active during the day
Matutinal animals: those which are active at dawn
Monoestrus: having one estrus cycle per year
Nocturnal animals: those which are active at night
Pelage: the fur, hair or wool of a mammal
Regurgitation: the action of bringing swallowed food up to the mouth
Twilight period: the period of time before sunrise and after sunset.
Vespertine animals: those which are active at dusk
IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
IBAMA: Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources
CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora)
ICMBio: Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation
the transition im crying
Little fish eats his foods
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old gods are waking
"Jonathan" is the oldest living terrestrial animal known in the world, born in 1832 and in 2024 he turned 192 years old.
He lived through the First and Second World Wars, the Russian Revolution, lived through seven British monarchs and 39 presidents of the United States.
Um GUYS @lilzoo @sun-roach
These are Oriental Shorthair cats. LOOK AT THEM.
The males weigh 3,6-5,4 kg and females less than 3,6 kg. They are up to 28-36 cm long and 23-28 cm tall. Medium sized.
They live up to 15 years. They are a member of the Siamese family of breeds. They are usually green-eyed.
They are also called "honking cats" because they sound like geese sometimes(when they feel slighted).
They are athletic. They prefer to live in pairs or groups and they do well in multi-pet households.
They are social, intelligent, curious, they are "conversationalists" and also playful and energetic.
Guys
A yoda fruit bat, this is.
I mean not really that was its nickname, its actual name is the happy tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene wrightae), but still
Yoda bat
The circular island that rotates in Argentina
Ok so you know dik diks?
These little guys, the little tiny antelopes
Their height is around 30-40cm (or 35-45 for the larger ones) and they are also 50-70cm long. Sweet, right? Great
At some point I had an encyclopedia that said that they are 60 metres long, and I know that that was written like that by accident BUT
Imagine them being like this
and I reblogged that from the wrong profile nice
Hi
Biology is cool and that's why we're here