Thursday, March 10, 2011
Rare Ugly Animals
Monday, February 14, 2011
Rare animal: Javan Rhino
The Javan Rhino is only found in Indonesia. It is the rarest of the rhino species with 37-45 animals existing only in Indonesia. The last Javan rhino is supposed to have been poached in Vietnam in 2010. In Indonesia, Javan rhinos live only in Java's Ujung Kulon National Park, where the population emerges to have stabilized, largely because they are physically guarded from harm by Rhino Protection Units. They were poached for their horns and supposedly used for medical causes.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Green Jade Flower
Green jade flower is a rare and beautiful flower in the world. This flower is unique one because of its blue-green petals and navy-purple center. This flowers grow in long bunches from a climbing vine that entwines through a tree branches. Green jade flower looks like a fuschia plant on an acid trip.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Abbott’s Booby
Abbott's Booby (Papasula abbotti) is a large seabird with a white body and black wings and back from the family, Sulidae. Found usually only on and around Christmas Island, it is the single living member of the monotypic genus Papasula. This seabird is named for William Louis Abbott who discovered it on Assumption Island in 1892. This bird has a length of about 79 cm and a weight of about 1460 grams. The Abbott's Booby currently breeds only on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, although previously it bred on other Indian Ocean islands. At sea it is mostly seen in the waters around Christmas Island.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Rare Martial Arts : Eskrima
Another names of Eskrima(alternately Escrima) are Kali, and Arnis de Mano. Eskrima is a form of Filipino martial art that is focused just about entirely on stick and blade fighting. The backbone of this martial art centers on simplicity. It was born of a need to train a lot of people (Filipinos) how to beat the hell out of a lot of other people (Spanish conquistadors) with not a lot to work with sticks.
As an end result, only battle-tested techniques that will simply, surely, and oh-so-quickly ruined your opponents head open are taught in Eskrima. Unlike many forms of martial arts, there is no ritual war dance associated with it. Eskrima warriors are known for their ability to lay a fool out with or without a weapon to the point that there are rightful techniques that require a warrior to just "bite the living shit" out of their opponent. Sheesh.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monito Del Monte(Dromiciops gliroides)
The Monito del monte or otherwise known as the 'little mountain monkey' is actually not a monkey, but rather a marsupial, thought to have arrived from Australia long ago. This little mountain monkey found in central Chile and in Argentina. Adults can reach 26 cm (10 inches) in total length, and fat adults may weigh up to 49 grams (1.7 ounces). These ' mountain monkeys' can be usually found in thick forests, where the wetness is rather high. Monito del Monte makes nests for its home and its young, like birds. Their nests can be found all over, on the ground or in the trees since they are semi-aboreal. They eat insects and small amounts of fruit. And their unusual tail, which can store sufficient fat to make this small pipsqueak double in size. This lets them to live for long periods without food.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Olm (blind cave salamander) Proteus anguinus
It's the member of proteidae family. This strange amphibian is blind, and Large, flat head with rounded snout. They are totally aquatic species that can live without food for up to 10 years and live to an age of 58 or additional. It eats small aquatic invertebrates, mostly crustaceans. It lives in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and Adriatic coast from northern Italy to Montenegro (former Yugoslavia). Unlike most amphibians, the olm lives in the water for its entire life. Another oddity of this amphibian is its neotenic (larval) gills. It grows 8-11 in (or) 20-28 cm.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Rare Fish: Deep-Sea Lizardfish
The Deep-Sea Lizardfish is a member of Synodontidae family. This fish is also known as the 'Deep-water Greeneye'. This rare fish is located only in the extreme depths of the tropical and subtropical seas of the world. It lives in waters of around 1500 to 3500 meters deep. It is deemed as an ambush predator hunting in the abyssal seafloor. It grows to a length of around 30 centimeters, is coloured a purple-black and prowls the ocean floors with a mouth of razor sharp barbed teeth.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Rare Fish: The black swallower
The black swallower (Chiasmodon niger) is a deep sea fish that has the ability to extend its stomach three times its size so that it can swallow fish that are larger than itself. It’s a charming and rare fish which lives in depths of up to 1,500 meters. And what makes this fish sole is the fact that unlike many other deep sea fish which need cold, dark conditions the Black Swallower also makes warm tropical waters its home. This fish can grow up to 25 centimeters and has the aptitude to make use of bioluminescence because of the darkness found in some parts of the pelagic zone.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Rare animal: Solenodon
Solenodon is a strange mammal found mostly in Cuba and Hispanola. It looks cute and controllable enough sort of like an over-sized hedgehog. Solenodon injects rattlesnake-like venom through its teeth, the only mammal do this. Solenodon bites at the go down of a banana leaf. Being both a carrion feeder and insectivore, it is a essential species in its ecosystem. It was thought to be died out until scientists found a few still alive in 2003. It is in grave danger of death.