What Is The Komodo Dragon?

The life history of the Cross River Gorilla is considerably long, ranging from gestation period to death (Save Our Species), (Imong, I., & Robbins, M.). The normal female gorilla will not

Dragonfly larvae are main aquatic predators that habitually eat tadpoles and this has strained the tadpoles to come up with devious defence strategies. The tadpoles of leopard frogs will speed up their maturation if they are in a pond with dragonfly larvae. Other species of tadpoles hide or develop ornamentations on their tails to trick the dragonfly larvae into outstanding at less vulnerable parts of their bodies. Dragonfly larvae might be the tigers of the water-weed jungle, but they were not thought to harass (defend, harass, defeat, frighten) adult

Gorillas are similar to humans in many different ways, such as sadness and laughter and also have hands just like a human. Some gorillas even know sign language when speaking to one another. They show over 20 known sounds, and other gorillas recognize them. It takes a very long time to build their trust as well. “Their DNA is 98.3% identical to a humans.” (Lewis, et.al, 2008) Reproduction for gorillas is also another feature just like humans, it is a slow procedure. It takes about 8 and a half months for a single gorilla to be produced, even though the process is slow the growing of a young gorilla is more rapid than a humans. They raise the infant gorilla for several years before giving birth to another baby. As many as 40% do not survive after birth. Male infants usually splits from the parents due to the lack of breeding chances.

There are many wild animals in the world are in danger. The mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are one of the most threatened species in the world that inherited from monkeys (Macaca Fascicularis) and apes (Hominoidea), which was found in Africa and Arabia about 34-24 millions years ago. Mountain gorillas are Animalia, which phylum is Chordata and class of Mammalia. The mountain gorilla is a subspecies of eastern gorilla, which live in two regions in Africa. There are three countries where mountain gorillas live. They are Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. According to National geographic, there are about 700 mountain gorillas remaining in the earth and half of them live in a Virunga mountains in central Africa. In average, they live about 35 years; the standing height of a mountain gorilla is between 4-6 feet. They’re weight usually between 300-485 pounds and they are bit larger than other type of gorillas. Mountain gorilla usually live in a group and head of their group is called ‘silverback’ that is an adult male who grow a patch of silver hair on their back and hips. However, when dominant silverback die, the whole group face hard time to regroup themselves. Female gorilla usually becomes sexually mature before male gorilla. At the age of 7-8 female gorillas become sexually active, however they started to breed few years later. On the other hand, male gorilla starts

This reptile is quite the catch. Let me tell you about his appearance. Although he might look sharp and dangerous he is really nothing but a softy. All the “spikes” on his body are rubbery and not sharp at all. They have flat bodies with a row of “spikes” going down each side of the stomach. They are supported with 4 stubby legs that have 4 “toes” on each one. However, as I have come to find out through much research, unlike most lizards, bearded dragons will not make their tail fall off if threatened and

What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you think of the word dragon? Myth? Conspiracy? Well, there's a lot more to dragons then you may think. According to legend, there are many kinds: European, Asian, sea serpent, fire drake, great earth dragon, water dragon, golden dragon. The list goes on. Those were the ones that will be discussed now.

Dragons are described as reptilian beasts with the power of a “thousand men”, which may or may not possess wings (like the Eastern dragon). Depending in culture, dragons are said to have more than just one head or multiple limbs. The Naga in India and the Hydra in Greek mythology are prime examples of this; Naga are usually portrayed as having the head or face of a man and the body of a snake, such as the king cobra. Some have dozens of heads with more appearance of the cobra. While in Greek myth, the Hydra is a multiple reptilian heads that guarded the entrance to a cave. In Medieval Time, dragons are depicted as malevolent; with the power to breathe fire and give death by their lethal stare. In Eastern society, dragons are viewed as

Bearded Dragons mostly live in the deserts and woodlands of Australia. They have many predators like large lizards and birds of prey. When the predator tries to attack the bearded dragon would use its “beard” and make itself look bigger. The beard can “inflate.” They also do two gestures to show they are strong. First, they wave to show submission. Second, the bearded dragons bob their head to show that they want to challenge one another to a fight. But, if the predator is much bigger than them they burrow underground to escape.

Least Dragon is one of the most fascinating species in Thrag Island, the small dragon which has a gray-green coloration with frills that turn red when extended, and is one of the few non-fire breathing species. Its displays of behavior such as ritualized aggression, and reproductive courtship and also the defense mechanisms that this species uses makes this species’s survival one of the most fascinating in the island.

Western lowland gorillas are sexually dimorphic with the male gorillas being about 2 times as large as female gorillas (San Diego Zoo Global 2006). Male gorillas are 400–500 pounds, on average, and female gorillas are only 159–216 pounds (Cawthon Lang 2005). The males also are taller than the females when standing bipedally, at around 1700 millimeters (~5 '5") on average, 200 millimeters more than their female counterparts (Cawthon Lang 2005). Gorillas’ arms are longer than their legs, which helps with their knuckle-walking (Saint Louis Zoo n.d.). The habitual mode of locomotion for gorillas is primarily knuckle-walking (Cawthon Lang 2005), but they can walk bipedally for a short amount of time (Saint Louis Zoo n.d.). Western lowland gorillas differ from other gorilla subspecies in that they have brownish (rather than black) fur (World Wildlife

The low land gorillas have unique and specific physical traits. They seem to be less than five feet in height. The female gorillas have faint silver back compared to the male gorillas that have a more distinguishing silver back. Both male and female gorillas have black hair all around their body, except the head which is brown, and their backs. Their hands, legs and arms seem to be large and out of proportion compared to their body. Their toes are as long as their fingers. The female gorillas have saggy long breasts. The saggy breasts can help them maneuver around their environment or help feed their young. One specific gorilla squeezed small drops of milk from her breasts onto her fingers and tasted it. She did it naturally and carefully almost as if she was checking to see if the milk was safe to drink for her baby or maybe, she got bored. They use their hands and feet to grip onto vines and trees and pull themselves up. The gorilla’s strong knuckles help support their upper body, which holds most of their weight. The males are heavier and have a distinctive head shape called a sagittal crest, but one of the females had a slight crest as well.

The year is 1,002,016 and it’s scorching hot! The African Bush Elephant’s trunk has evolved to be six inches longer. The ancient elephants had a different variation of the trunk, some of them had a smaller trunk, some elephants with longer trunks. Now that there was different types of elephants natural selection came into place so, more and more of the elephants had longer trunks, but as time has passed water became scarce. As a result, the elephants with the smaller trunks in the population diminished. Since they were not able to survive. The elephant with the longer trunk were able to survive more. Now the trait will help the elephant survive since, it was able to adapt to their new dry sandy habitat since it be able to smell the water

Komodo Dragons are the largest species of lizards in the entire world, the biggest ones weighing three-hundred to three-hundred and ninety pounds with a length of eight to ten feet long. They are muscular with thick tails and long claws on their broad feet. An average Komodo Dragon will have four to five sets of sixty curved and serrated teeth in its lifetime. A Dragon’s eye sight and smell is so good that they can detect a rotting carcass from miles away! Komodos can even swim well due to their muscular tails.

In the book, the author tries to define the dragon and states that it was seen to look like a giant snake. He also explains how people saw dragons as sacred whereby it was seen as some type of guardian to the people and provided them with protection and natural needs like rain. The book also tells of people, who had negative beliefs against the dragons; these were mostly Christians who to some extent even fought with the dragons. The belief that dragons were strong and mighty was seen as true since people who defeated dragons, mostly armies, were remembered as very great men. The popular belief that dragons guard great treasures in their caves is seen in this novel whereby the author states that people in those days tried to enter dragon caves which were guarded by these dragons.

The komodo dragon is a ruthless, unforgiving enemy. If you get face to face with a komodo dragon, and it is hungry, it is probably already too late for you. It will kill anything it wants to.“the Komodo is hunting and catches its prey, such as a deer, it attacks the feet first,