Blogs Posts in Land Mammals category; 312 blog posts

For second year, group says Safari isn't good to elephants

For the second year in a row, the Wildlife Safari has made an animal protection organization's list of the top ten worst zoos for elephants, but officials at the park say the group is just looking for attention. Last year, the grou [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Cheetah (Speed in mph :70 )

The cheetah is the fastest member of the cat family and is unique because what it lacks in climbing abilities it makes up for in speed and stealth. The cheetah is the fastest of all land animals and can reach speeds between 112 kilometres [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The Elephant in the Room: How Contraception Could Save Futur...

In South Africa they have a problem, a big one: too many elephants. For most of the 1900s extensive poaching threatened to wipe out the country’s elephants. In response, conservationists established reserves throughout the region an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Elephant-poo power electrifies zoo

At Munich Zoo you can watch the courtship rituals of the banded mongoose, hear the morning song of the scarlet ibis or visit the Indian elephants, who help help keep the lights on with electricity generated from their dung. They can do [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Land Of The Thunder Dragon

Bhutan Nestled in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan is a small kingdom roughly the size of Switzerland and fondly referred to as Druk Yul meaning "Land of the Thunder Dragon." The society is closely knit and draws its values [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cheetah - the Fastest Land Mammal!

Honed to a sleek and slender physique Cheetah ranges in weight from 100 to 150 lbs, with its long body and tail assisting it in high speed pursuits. The coat is generally yellowish with small black spots running throughout its length. The [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Tiktaalik, The Fish Sheds New Clues on the Origin of Life an...

For decades, scientists around the world have been on the relentless quest to ultimately research and solve the greatest mystery surrounding the origin of life. They have built, developed, and simulated many different experiments and hypo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Elephants - The Largest Land Mammal

Elephants are the largest animals on land. There are two types of elephants, African elephants and Asian elephants. Both the species of elephants used to subsist in great numbers all over Africa and parts of Asia. At present, bot [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

German zoo's new star: A cross-eyed opossum

She's middle-aged and gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest star, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo. The 21/2-year-old opossum has a Facebook following o [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

No small matter, this!

A trip to the Philippines is incomplete if one doesn’t visit the Bohol province and see tarsiers, an endangered species endemic to that country. Subdued efforts are on in the tropical country which has abundant natural wealth, to s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Mammals that beat dinosaurs

A new research headed by University of New Mexico Biology Associate Professor Felisa Smith revealed that the ancient dinosaurs were not the only gigantic creatures the olden world. The study, the details which have been published in Nove [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

23 seals clubbed to death in New Zealand

Attackers clubbed 23 fur seals to death, including newborn pups, at a New Zealand breeding colony re-established two decades ago after the species was nearly wiped out by hunting. Some of the eight bludgeoned pups were just days old [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Giant mammals filled dinosaur void

Mammals waited until dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago to make their move. A new study in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Science has revealed that in the 20 million years after the extinction of dinosaurs, mammals grew 1,000 [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Mammal Growth Spurt After Dinosaurs Died

Mammals exploded in size after dinosaurs went extinct and continued to grow for about 25 million years, according to a new study that appears in the journal Science. In the first 140 million years of their existence, most mammals stayed [...]