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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Chameleon

Chameleon, family chamaeleonidae, are old world lizards that dwell in trees, except for the stump tailed chameleon, genus Brookesia, which lives mainly on the forest floor. Chameleons range from Africa and Madagaskar to southern Spain, India, and Sri Lanka. They are noted for their ability to change color in response to light, heat, and other stimull. The rang of colors is limited to shades of green, yellow, or brown. The males, in particular, often have horns, crests, of flaps on their heads.

The lizards range in length from les than 7.5 cm (3 in) for Brookesia to more than 60 cm (24 in) for some species of Chamaeleo. Chameleons have a long, flattened body and –except for the stump-tailed variety –a prehensile tail that serves as an extra limb. The hind foot has two toes on the inside and three on the outside; the forefoot has the opposite arrangement. The chameleon's protruding eyes are almost completely convert by eyelids, leaving only a narrow opening; the eyes can rotate independently in a complete hemisphere. The tongue, which may be longer than the body, is used to snare eat birds and small rodents. Chameleons are mostly oviparous, developing and hatching their eggs outside the body, but a few are ovoviviparous producing living young within the body.


Jackson's chameleon is a 3 horned species found in Africa. All chameleons are tree dwellers and can change skin color. The species catches insect with its long sticky tongue

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Dove and Pigeon

Dove is the common name of various species of bird in the family Columbidae, order Columbiformes. Other species in the same family are called Pigeon. There is no biological distinction between the two. Small species are often called Dove, and large species, Pigeon, but this usage is inconsistent. The domestic pigeon, Columba Livia, for example is known also as the rock dove. The reason is historical; dove is of Anglo-Saxon origin, while pigeon are French.

The rock dove is commonly known as the domestic pigeon is familiar as inhabitant City Park and of suburban and rural areas throughout North America and Europe. This kind of pigeon also lets live in park and garden around the Big Ben in England and other tourism city in French.


Pigeon bird in Mecca city of Arab Saudi come breaded from Medina city. This Pigeon Bird represents the livestock animal of Prophet Muhammad wife, Aisyah. This bird has a special character with stripe Grey color in their body, if in Indonesia called as Megan. There are no other color and model of Mecca and Medina pigeon, just one color. This pigeon is let’s living around the mosque, either in Nabawi Mosque or in Haram Mosque and no contaminates with other species.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Last Dinosaurus Clan

Museum worker in New Zealand express that reptile which is considered to be the last clan of Dinosaurus which above on this world will become a father for the first time in ten years on the age of -111. Henry, name of this tuatara, with his couple that is younger, Mildred releases many of eggs last month after marrying in Museum Southland, south Island of New Zealand, Last March.

This Tuatara curator Tuatara, Lindsay Hazley, Wednesday then tells about Henry’s live in the special place in a special museum of Tuatara since 1970 and show don’t want to marry because of last cancer which grows in his genitals that is taken or operated. He now enjoy for the real live, consorted three female tuatara which will bear again next March. Australia as known has many reptile type that each of this animals have amazing character like Thorny Devil from Australian Dezert. Tuatara if look to the physical form, this animals like Thorny Devil or like a Komodo from Komodo Island of Indonesia.