Rare asian golden cat

The Asian Golden Cat, also called the Asiatic Golden Cat and Temminck's Golden Cat, is a medium sized wild cat weighing from 12 to 16 kilograms. In captivity this type can live up to 20 years, but its average lifespan in the wild is likely far shorter. While the fur is mostly foxy red or golden brown, black or grey color variants may also be found. Usually, the coat is plain, save for some spots on the underside, and sometimes very faint spotting on the rest of the coat. However, in China there is a color variant with leopard-like spots, which resemble a Leopard Cat. This spotted fur is a recessive characteristic, i.e. when a spotted and a plain cat interbreed, the young get plain hair.

Asian Golden Cat lives throughout Southeast Asia, ranging from Tibet and Nepal to Southern China, India, and Sumatra. It prefers forest habitats interspersed with rocky area, and is found in deciduous, subtropical evergreen, and tropical rainforests. The Asian Golden Cat is irregularly found in more open terrain. It ranges from the lowlands to altitude of up to 3000 meters in the Himalayas.

Not a great deal is known about this rather elusive predator, and most of what is known about it has been found out in captivity. Previous observations suggested that it is primarily nocturnal, but a recent study on 2 golden cats showed arrythmic activity patterns. It is thought to be primarily solitary.

Asian Golden Cat prefers to hunt on the ground, but does climb when it needs to. When hunting, it uses a stalk and rush method typical of felines. It is known to hunt birds, lizards, rodents, other small mammals, and the occasional small or young deer, and seems to be fairly flexible in its diet. Asian Golden Cat has been reported to hunt in pairs when pursuing better animals. In captivity, it plucks the feathers of larger birds before eating them. There has been news of the Asian Golden Cat scavenging, a behavior not commonly seen in felines. Rarely, it hunts near human settlement or prey on farm animals.

Everything known about Asian Golden Cat reproduction has been figure out from comments of them in captivity. It becomes sexually mature at anywhere from 18 to 24 months of age. Its development period lasts about 80 days; litters usually consist of only one kitten. Kittens are born in the hollows of trees, rock crevices, and possibly in hollows and other protected places on the ground. The pelts of kittens are thicker and slightly darker, but with the pattern they will keep for their entire life. Based on what has been seen in captivity, it is thought that males take an active role in rearing the young.

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Alligator

Alligators are native to only two countries United States and China. American Alligators are establish in the subtropical southeast US, all of Florida & Louisiana; Alabama & Mississippi; the southern parts of Georgia, coastal South & North Carolina; Southeastern Texas & extreme southeastern Oklahoma and Arkansas. The majority of American Alligators inhabit Florida & Louisiana, with over a million alligators in every state.

American Alligators live in freshwater environment, such as ponds, marshes, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and swamps, as well as salty environments.

The Chinese alligator at present is establish only in the Yangtze River valley and very endangered, with only a couple dozen supposed to be left in the wild. Really, far more Chinese alligators live in zoos about the world than can be found in the wild. For example, Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in southern Louisiana has several in captivity in an effort to preserve the species. Miami-Dade County Zoo in Miami, FL has a breeding pair also.

An alligator is a crocodilian in the type Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicized form of the Spanish el lagarto (the lizard), the name by which early Spanish explorers & settlers in Florida called the alligator.

There are 2 living alligator species: the American Alligator and the Chinese Alligator. Alligators are characterized by a wider nose than crocodiles. Both living type also tend to be dark in color, often almost black but color is very dependent on the water.

Algae-laden waters create greener alligators; alligators from waters with a lot of tannic acid from suspended trees are often darker Also, in alligators only the upper teeth can be seen with the jaws closed, in contrast to true crocodiles, in which upper and lower teeth can be seen.

Though, many persons bear jaw deformities which complicate this means of identification. An average American alligator's weight and length is 360 kg and 4 m long. According to the Everglades National Park website.

The largest alligator still recorded in Florida was 17 feet 5 inches long 5.3 m, though according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife protection Commission web site the Florida state record for length is a 14 foot 5/8 inch male from Lake Monroe in Seminole County.

The Florida record for weight is a 1,043 pound male from Orange Lake in Alachua County. The largest alligator still recorded in Alabama measured 12 feet 3.7 m. The largest alligator ever recorded calculated 19 feet 5.8 m and was found on Marsh Island, Louisiana. Few of the giant specimens were weighed, but the larger ones could have exceeded a ton in weight. The Chinese Alligator is smaller, rarely exceeding 2 m in length.

China rare earth sell abroad cut won’t last

Since everybody who follows the rare earth metals manufacturing know, the sector is conquered by export from China. So a report over the weekend that China plans to cut rare earth sell abroad quotas by 72% is a serious issue for countries that need the supply.

Or maybe not. Canaccord Genuity analyst Yuri Lynk wrote in a note that he believes the Chinese government will revoke the export quotas, as the reply from worldwide markets "will be severe."

"There have been similar incidences in the new past when China has controlled outputs and exports of rare earths, but the decisions were subsequently reversed," he noted.

Mr. Lynk covers rare earth processor Neo Material Technologies Inc. He wrote that if these sell abroad quota hold up, sales from the company's recital Materials business outside China would be "somewhat impacted." But its Magnequench division, which produces powder for magnets, could profit from an oversupply of rare earths in China, as its input costs in the nation would reduce. He maintained a "buy" rating on the stock and a price target of $5.50 a share.

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Rare nimbus of the Sun Seen within Calcutta

A rare fact was marked in Calcutta on Monday 5th July 2010, called the 22 degree round nimbus of the sun. This is seen as a red & blue ring nearby the sun and is caused by the deflection from side to side ice crystals from cirrus smoke. The cirrus smokes is formed at a height of between 5 and 10 km from the surface of the earth and are caused when water vapour freezes, making the hexagonal shaped ice particles.

The halo phenomenon was seen between 10:30 and 11:30 am without any forecast, as this is amazing that is not possible to predict, according to Debiprosad Duari, the research and academic director of MP Birla Planetarium. The last occurrence of the 22 degree halo was in September 2008 and viewed in Siliguri.

This rare presentation of the 22 degree circular halo of the sun keyed up all who saw it and one amateur astronomer, operational as a railroad employee, called up his family and 10 year old son to go outside and have a look at how beautiful it was.

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