Java Rhinoceros Recognize Infra-Red Light

This tell about WWF activity in conservation forest Ujung Kulon west Java. All environmental organizational activist, World Wildlife Fund ( WWF) agape a moment to see the record of a Java rhinoceros nuzzling camera video trap which they install. How do not because there is no lamp around and camera record rhinoceros activity uses the infra-red light.

Onthis record taken at Maret-April 2008, seen two heads rhinoceros in National Park of Ujung Kulon, West Java, seen a mother and a child, moment recorded both seeing kept quiet for a second. Later; then, rhinoceros mother closed to the camera and in a short time nuzzle it.

Camera then dies and record, Lucky, camera protected by waterproof thick bale of plastic material do not broken and chafed only. Moment all activities find it few days then, the camera lie above the land.

"Probably because the distance is too close so that rhinoceros can see the infra-red light," say the Adhi Rachmat Hariyadi, Site Manager WWF for Indonesia at TN Ujung Kulon, moment announce the result of first video trap record about Java rhinoceros life. But, until date still unpredictable why the rhinoceros mother seems knows that being recorded. Others dissimilar rhinoceros are also recorded the same distance but do not see annoyed with the camera. Adhi tell the rhinoceros which is being suckle its child possible more sensitive so that can recognize the infra-red light wave.

To ascertain the mentioned require further research. Java Rhinoceros is inclusive animal which still not a lot of researched yet. The animal mousy and solitary so that even difficult be met directly.

Dolphin

The majority of small-toothed whales are whales are called dolphins. They are mammals of the order Cetacea and the families Platanistidae, Delphnidae, and Grampidae and include about 50 species. All have a beaklike snout and sharp, conical teeth. The term porpoise is sometimes applied to many of the same species, but porpoises, strictly speaking, are members of the family phocaenidae teeth. The dolphin fish (mahi-mahi or dorado) is a sport fish related to the mackerels.

More dolphin species are about 2 m in length, the males averaging 10 to 20 cm longer than females. The largest is bottle nose dolphin, Tursiops truncates, well known in many public aquariums. This species may reach over 3 m in length and 200 kg in weight. The smallest species is the buffeo, Sotallia fluviatilis, of the Amazon River, it is rarely over 1.2 m in length and 30 kg in weight.

Dolphin are predators and feed on live food, except when trained otherwise in captivity. The primary food is fish, mostly open water types such as herring, mackerel, and sardines. Some species seem to prefer squid; occasionally shrimp and other crustacean are consumed. Food consumption is estimated at about 30 kg (66 lb) a day for an individual about 2.5 m (8.2 ft) in length and 100 kg (220 lb) in weight.

Dolphin can be found in virtually all the seas and oceans of the world. Some species are sharply restricted, but many, such as the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, or the bottle nose dolphin, are found world wide. Several species are found in freshwater, notably the Ganges River dolphin. Platanista gangetica, the river of south America are the home of the long snouthed dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, and the buffeo. Dolphin are abundant in some area of the world. Off the coast of the Japan, population of the white-sided dolphin.

King Snake

King snakes, genus Lampropeltis, in the family Colubridae, are moderately sized, powerful constrictors and have smooth scales and single anal plates (the scale in front of the vent). Their diet consist of a variety of vertebrates, including other snakes. Six species occur in the United States. The prairie king snake, or mole snake, L. calligaster, is distributed from Maryland westward to Nebraska and Texas and southward to Florida. It is brown or tan with darker biotches. Most subspecies of the common king snakes, L. getulus, are dark brown or black with white or yellow bands, stripes, or spots. This species occur from coast to coast. Two species, the Sonora mountain king snake, L. pyromelana, and the California mountain snake, L. zonata, are restricted to mountainous region in the western United States and Mexico. They are tree colored with red, black, and white. The Mexican king snake, L. mexicana, is marked with gray, black and sometimes orange and is found in southwestern Texas and northern portion of the Mexican often known as Milk Snakes.

Komodo Dragon

The largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis, attains a total length of up to 3 m (10 ft) and an average weight of 136 kg (300 lb). These giant lizards live only in the vicinity of Indonesia, for example, on Komodo island, for which they are named. They are representative of the monitor Lizard family, Varanidae. Like other monitors, Komodo dragons are carnivorous, feeding on animals as large as small deer and bush pigs. Like other large monitors, they can be formidable adversaries, even for humans, if actually cornered. Young Komodo dragons climb trees, but adults, far too large to be arboreal, dig burrows or spend hot daylight hours under bushes, coming out in the morning and evening. Like several other monitors, Komodo dragons swim well. These reptiles are endangered and are under strict protection by the Indonesian government.

The Komodo dragon is a relative of the extinct 7 m (23 ft) reptile V. pricus, whose remains have been found in Quatenary deposits in Australia. The origin Komodo is from Komodo Island that is located in Nusatenggara Timur (East Nusatenggara) island in Indonesia.

Lamprey

Lamprey in Indonesia called "Belut Lamprey", and hagfishes are the two surviving groups of jawless vertebrates. The earliest known lampreys, genus Mayomyzon, are from the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, and are thought to be closely related to an extinct group of jawless fishes, the ostracoderms, which flourished earlier. Lamprey is eel-like in shape and lack scales and paired fins (pectorials and pelvics), but they do have a tail and one or two dorsal (top) fins. In place of jaws, lampreys have an oral sucking disk bearing teeth and a rasplike tongue. The internal body support consists of notochord ("backbone") and a cartilaginous skeleton. Lamprey have seven separate gill openings on each side and a single nostril on the upper part of the head.

Some lampreys live only in fresh water. Other species are anodromous, living in marine waters but breeding in fresh water. Lamprey are found in cold to cool coastal and inland waters of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with the exception of all of Africa but the northwestern tip.

Although individuals within a single lamprey species may be either parasitic or non-parasitic, it is more usual for a species to be exclusively one or the other. When lamprey hatch they develop into small, blind, toothless, almost wormlike larvae called ammocetes, which burrow in the stream bottom. Ammocetes are filter feeders, straining tiny organisms from the water for food. After several years the ammocetes metamorphose, or change, into the adult form. If the species or individual is non-parasitic, the digestive system degenerates and the adult neither feeds nor grows, merely surviving long enough to reproduce. If parasitic, the adult will adhere to the bodies of the other fish with its sucking disk and then rasp their flesh to feed their blood and tissue.

Cat Bird

Catbird is the common name for birds that belong to several Old and New families and have mewing calls. The grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, family Mimidae, is common over most of Nort America from central Canada south (except on the U.S. West Coast), wintering south to central America. Slightly smaller (23 cm/9 in) than the American robin, it is slim and dark grey, with a black and chestnut red under-tail coverts. Although it is not a gifted mimic as the related Mockingbird, the catbird has a large repertoire of notes, which is strings together in a long and variable song.


The grey catbird, named for its strident, catlike whine, can be found in dense thickets in suburbs and parks. So catbird is not cat like but more like bird, this bird also don't like rat for her feed. What is the cat bird eat?, this bird is eaten of insect and seed of many plant.