Moutain Goat and Moutain Sheep

Mountain Goat

The mountain goat, Oreamnos Americanus, in the family Bovidae, is not a true goat (Capra) but rather a member of a group (tribe Rupricaprini) known as goat antelopes. Mountain goats stand about 1 m (39 in) high at the shoulder and weigh up to 140 kg (300 lb). The goat is white sometimes tinged with yellow, with a thick, woolly underfur. The hair above the shoulder and on the neck is long and stiff. Both sexes have beards and permanent, black, unbranched horns that seldom exceed 23 cm (9 in) long. The hooves are hard and sharp and surround soft pads, enabling the animals to obtain footing on ice and rocks. Mountain goats are found from southwestern Alaska along the Rocky Mountain into the northern United States. Mating occurs in November, and or two born in the spring.

Mountain Sheep

Mountain sheep are members of the genus Ovis in the family Bovidae and are characterized by narrow muzzle, pointed ears, and massive curling horns in the older males (rams). Unlike true goats, Capra, they lack beards and have dished, or concave, foreheads. The largest of the mountain sheep, the argaili, reaches 1.2 m (4 ft) in height at the shoulder and 160 kg (350 lb) in weight. Coat colors range from white to gray or dark brawn. The coat is generally short and coarse, with only the mouflon species developing a woolly undercoat in winter. Some forms have a mane of hair down the front of the neck. Mountain sheep generally inhabit dry upland areas, from craggy mountains into semideserts. During the summer moths the adult males live in groups apart from the females and their young. In late fall and early winter the males battle for possession of females, which they gather into harems of up to 12 awes. Gestation lasts 5 to 6 months, and form one to three lambs are born in the spring.

Mountain sheep are usually classified into six species; the bighorn, O. Canadensis, of the western United States and southwestern Canada; the Dall sheep, O. dalli, of Alaska and northwestern Canada; the argali, or Marco Polo sheep, O. ammon, of central Asia; the red sheep, O. laristanica, of southern Iran; and the mouflon, O. musimon, of Sardinia and Corsica.

Earwig

Earwigs are small to medium-sized, usually brownish insects that have a pair of pincers at the end of the abdomen. The approximately 900 species, constituting the order Dermaptera, are distributed worldwide. Most resemble the common earwig, Forticula auricularia. Some species are wingless, however, and two tropical genera are parasites on bats and rodents. The name “earwig” derives from tales about the insects crawling into ears. Earwigs feed on both plants and small animals, sometimes capturing prey by using the pincers, which are strong enough to nip human skin. Female earwigs display primitive social behavior by tending their eggs and young, which resemble the adults and undergo simple Metamorphosis. The insects are mainly nocturnal and can be a pest in garden by damaging flowering plants.

A male earwig (A) differs from a female (B) by having wings, one pair of which is short and leathery and the other pair veined and delicate. Both male and female have forceps-like pincers on their abdomens (C), which are used for defense. The female is shown in a defensive posture with pincers raised.

Turtle Conservation

To protect this endanger animal an animal love organization in Panama work and try to conserve this animal from destruction. The project is done in Soropta and Playa Larga of Panama Beach.

Many people have hunter the turtle such as painted turtle for their meat and also for the egg that can be taken very easy in the beach which this turtle usually eggs. Their eggs is similar with chicken eggs, every time one turtle egg can produce 100 to 200 eggs depends on the turtle size and big. For young turtle sometime hunt for getting meat, so this condition make this animal become endanger in the world.

As those organization found in Panama about 35 turtles were killed annually, may be this mean that adult turtle found dead of killed. The population of this turtles in Panama is predicted only hundreds if the condition can't be stopped can cause this turtle will extinct.

The main goal is environmental education is an important part of the programmed and their biologists visit local schools to talk about conservation and the need to protect the turtles. Employee eight local men as beach guards and assistants at Soropta and it is rewarding to see how interested they have become in turtle conservation. They also work with local groups on neighboring San-San and Sixaola beaches to provide incentive and some organization for protection of their beach.

Hope that their work will have a great result and can save this sea turtle from extinction. Someday people will very difficult to find turtle in free nature because human always hunt this animal for their food, people too indulge want have free a lot of eggs and never consider their continues existence in the world.