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Highest Jumping animals

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While human Olympic athletes are able to achieve long or high jumping abilities, their abilities are only minuscule when compared with jumping abilities of animals. We bring to you some of the highest jumping animals on the planet.

Hare:-

Brown hares have the ability to not only run at a speed of 72 km/h but during their sprinting time they can also make use of their long hind legs to make huge jumps. These jumps allow them to evade their predators with ease.

Hare

Red Kangaroo:-

Red Kangaroo is the world’s fastest jumper amongst all species of land mammals. Red kangaroos are able to jump with a speed of almost 56 km/h which is a sight to see.

Red Kangaroo

Bharal:-

Bharal is a species of goat that are found primarily in Himalayan region. They are naturally adept at jumping cliffs and small hills with ease. Their jumping speed through these dangerous cliffs and hills is astounding to a degree of impossibility.

Bharal

Klipspringer:-

Klipspringers which are about 1.5 meters in height are able to jump ten times high as compared to their own height. When comparing the body size, they are number one highest jumping mammals on the planet.

Klipspringer

Grasshopper:-

Grasshopper is blessed by nature to jump 20 times compared to their own body length. From human perspective it is same as a human jumping a length of a full basket ball court.

Grasshopper

Kangaroo Rat:-

Kangaroo Rat is able to jump 45 times ahead compared to its on body’s length. This puts them on the top of Longest jumping mammal in relation to their body length.

Kangaroo Rat

Froghoppers:-

Froghoppers are able to jump 70 times higher compared to their own body height. They generate the force in relation to their body of about 400 times which is the highest among all mammals. Within a millisecond they can achieve a takeoff velocity of about four meters per second.

Froghoppers

Jumping Spider:-

Jumping Spider of the spider species is able to jump 20 times higher than its own body’s length. This is same as a human jumping length of two jumbo jets stacked end to end.

Jumping Spider

Tree Frog:-

Tree Frogs are able to jump 150 times longer compared to their own body’s length. This gives them the title of second longest jumper in animal kingdom in relation to its body length.

Tree Frog

Flea:-

The title for the Best Jumper in world goes to “Flea”. In relation to their size, Fleas are able to jump 220 times longer than their body length and 150 times higher than their body height, making them both highest and longest jumping creature. From human perspective it’s like jumping a height of 250 meters while jumping a length of about 400 meters.

Flea

Longest Living Animals

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Animals living in the wild are mostly unable to reach the natural life span due to the harshness of their natural wild habitats. Most of the times they die due to following reasons.

  • Infant mortality
  • Disease
  • Predators
  • Bad weather condition
  • Habitat destruction
  • Food completion
  • Shelter

Whilst they might not reach their full lifespan under these conditions, some animals if given ideal living condition can live up to astounding periods of time. Some of these longest living animals are as follows.

Red sea urchin:-

Red Sea Urchin is found normally in shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean. They are believed to be near immortals. They are known to live up to a time period of around 200 years.

Red sea urchin

Koi Fish:-

Common Koi fish are able to live up to 25 to 30 years but it is believed that they can almost live up to or even longer than 200 years. One of the famous Koi Fishes, Hanako in Japan died back in 1977. They study of its growth rings revealed it age to be about 226 years at the time of death. This almost makes her older than USA itself.

Koi Fish

African Elephant:-

African Elephant is the largest surviving land mammal in the world. They can live up to an average life of 70 years. A recent Zimbabwean study found out that until the time of their death, Elephants can remain fertile.

African Elephant

Macaw:-

Macaws have a natural life span in between 60 to 80 years. While in breeding they can live up to 30 to 35 years. However due to natural habitat destruction and constant poaching of this magnificent world they are already an endangered species.

Macaw

Galapagos Tortoise:-

Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species of the tortoise is able to live and survive well past one hundred years. The oldest record of this specie’s age is 152 years. One famous Galapagos Tortoise named Lonesome George was record to be of 100 years of age and was still considered a young adult.

Galapagos Tortoise

Ocean Quahog:-

Some specimen of the Ocean Quahog were studied and reported to be about 400 years’ old living specimens. Amongst all the specimens one named “Ming the Clam” was of 507 years of age. He was given this name because he could have been alive since the Ming Chinese Dynasty era.

Ocean Quahog

Immortal Jellyfish:-

Immortal Jellyfish is a unique species of Jellyfish family. They are able to revert back to their premature state of life when exposed to stress or injury. Although this allows them to be biologically immortal, they do not live a very long life because of getting either eaten by predators or getting gravely injured.

Immortal Jellyfish

Smallest Animals

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Animals are fascinating creatures of nature that are in all sizes, shapes and lengths. Some of them can be small, like really small to be not even seen by naked human eye. Usually such kinds of animals are invertebrates (no spine). There are still some vertebrae animals that are usually small in size and we have prepared a list of these Smallest Animals.

Pygmy Rabbit:-

Pygmy Rabbit is crowned as smallest rabbit on earth. Their natural habitat is in North America. An average adult pygmy rabbit weighs about 400 grams with a  body length of 24 cm. Female pygmy rabbits are a little larger in size as compared to males. They usually live in deep burrows of sol inside an area filled with dense Sagebrush. This sagebrush allows for the easy escape from encroaching predators.

Pygmy Rabbit

Pygmy Marmoset:-

Pygmy Marmoset or commonly known as Dwarf Monkey is the smallest species of monkeys. Its natural habitat is in the rain forests of Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru and Bolivia. This smallest monkey species have an average body length excluding the tail is about 14 o 16 cm. they weigh only about 15 grams at time of their birth.

Pygmy Marmoset

Etruscan shrew:-

Etruscan Pygmy Shrew or also commonly known as White Toothed Pygmy Shrew. It has a body weight of only about 1.2 to 2.7 grams. This body weight alone makes its world’s smallest mammal. Its body length is however slightly long reaching up to 36 to 56 mm from head to tail. In relation to body weight to brain ratio, Etruscan shrew has the largest brain even when compared wit human.

Etruscan shrew

Bee Hummingbird:-

Bee Hummingbird is known as the world’s smallest bird as well as the smallest warm blooded vertebrae. The average length of this bird is about 5.7 cm while its body weight can be 1.8 grams. Its nest is also 2 cm wide and 3 cm deep inside a tree trunk.

Bee Hummingbird

Paedocypris:-

Paedocypris is titles as world’s smallest fish species measuring at a length of 7.9mm on average. They are titles as the world’s smallest vertebrae. They are usually found in the waters of Indonesia, Sumatra Island’s Swamp Forests. The region experiences extreme drought condition but these vertebrae can survive it owing it to heir small body length.

Paedocypris

Fastest Animals

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Nature has blessed some animals with ability to either fly or some with ability to swim through water while some are able to run on land only. Fastest animals mostly include birds but today we have gathered a list of fastest animals from all animal types whether they are fliers, swimmers or runner. The list of fastest animals is as follows.

Brown Hare:-

Brown Hares are some of the fastest animals on the planet. They have long legs that accompany them in running as fast as 77 Km/h. this is almost the same speed as their natural predator, The Red Fox.

Brown Hare

Blue Wildebeest:-

Blue Wildebeest also has the same top speed as its natural predator, the lion. Wildebeest are able to run at a top speed of about 80 km/h.

Blue Wildebeest

Marlin:-

Marlin fish is the second fastest fish in the world right after Sail Fish. Marlin can swim with a speed of about 80 km/h.

Marlin

Pronghorn Antelope:-

Pronghorn Antelope is the world’s second fastest animal that can pout run its predators with a speed of about 98 km/h.

Pronghorn Antelope

Sail Fish:-

Sail fish has the crown for the World’s Fastest Fish. It can swim around with a speed of about 110 km/h.

Sail Fish

Cheetah:-

Cheetah is undoubtedly the world’s fastest land animal. Cheetah can run up to a speed of 110 km/h which is three times the running top speed of a human. Human are able to run at top speed of 32 km/h.

Cheetah

Spur-Winged Goose:-

Spur Winged Goose is the largest amongst all species of Goose. They have the ability to fly with a speed of about 142 km/h.

Spur-Winged Goose

Frigate Bird:-

Frigate Bird has the ability to main in air for more than a week without any breaks while migrating. They have the perfect body to wingspan ratio amongst all birds on planet. They are able to achieve a speed of 153 km/h during their flight.

Frigate Bird

White Throated Needletail:-

White Throated Needletail or also known as Spine Tailed Swift is able to achieve a flight speed of 171 km/h, making the fastest bird during Powered flight.

White Throated Needletail

Peregrine Falcon:-

Peregrine Eagle is not only the fattest bird but also the fastest animal on the planet today. This eagle is famous for its hunting dive during which it soars to great height and then dive down towards its prey with a speed of about 322 km/h. as far as horizontal cruising speeds are concerned, peregrine eagle can fly up to 90 km/h.

Peregrine Falcon

Strongest animals

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Each animal has its own different criteria for strength. Some are blessed with sheer brute force while others are blessed by nature for lifting, dragging carrying or pulling huge weights. Some animals might be smaller in size but they have immense power more than their own body weight.

We present to you few of the strongest animals in the world.

Grizzly Bear:-

Grizzly Bears are one of the most fearsome species of bears. When it comes to strength, it is the most powerful species of bear. An adult grizzle bear is able to lift 500 kg of weight which is 0.8 times of its own body weight.

Grizzly Bear

Anaconda:-

Anaconda is one of the ruthless and largest species of the snake family. Ana anaconda snake has so much squeezing power that it can easily squeeze another animal weighing almost equal to its own 250 kilogram body weight.

Anaconda

Elephant:-

When it comes to brute strength, her is no other animal or land mammal that comes near to them. African Elephants have an average weight of about 6350 kg. They are able to lift 9000kg weigh almost equal to lifting 130 adult humans.

Elephant

Musk Ox:-

Musk Ox is so strong that it can pull about 900 kg on rugged terrain, which is nearly double their own body weight of average 400 kg.

Musk Ox

Tiger:-

Tigers are ferocious creatures that can carry a prey weighing almost 550 kg up on a tree.

Tiger

Eagle:-

An eagle is the strongest bird in the world. Eagles are able to lift four times their own body weight and that is during the flight.

Eagle

Gorilla:-

Gorillas are able to lift 2000 kg which is ten times their own body weight.

Gorilla

Leafcutter Ant:-

Although leafcutter ants only weigh about 500mg but they can still lift up something in their jaws 50 times heavier than their own body weight. To consider this just imagine if a human is able to lift a truck using his teeth.

Leafcutter Ant

Rhinoceros Beetle:-

Rhinoceros Beetles are so powerful that they can lift something that is 850 times compared to their own body weight. For comparing it with humans, just imagine that if a human has same strength as the Rhinoceros Beetle they can lift up to 65 tons worth of weight.

Rhinoceros Beetle

Dung Beetle:-

Dung Beetle is the world’s strongest insect and can also be referred to as one of the strongest animals on the planet if not considering its small size and weight. They are able to pull something that weighs 1141 times their own body weight. For imagining it from human perspective, consider a human pulling eight double Decker buses filled with people.

Dung Beetle

Smelliest animals

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Many animals are blessed by nature with special Self Defense Mechanisms. One of these defense mechanisms is Smell. When threatened, few animals spray out nasty smells that will deter their predators. Some other animals use their own musk to ark their territories or to protect their food storage from scavengers.

Following are some of the smelliest animals in the world.

Millipede

Millipede when feels threatened curls up in form of a ball and some millipede species spray a nasty smelly liquid. This liquid has such a strong stench that it deters their predators. One species of Millipede secrets Hydrogen Cyanide a powerful chemical substance.  One millipede can secret enough Hydrogen Cyanide to kill a mouse six times. Combined released Hydrogen Cyanide gas from 100 millipedes can kill a human being.

Millipede

Stink Bird

Hoatzin aka the Stink Bird is found living in jungles of Amazon and in South America. Stink Bird got this name because of its digestive system. Stink Bird is the only species I world that rely on a leafy diet. Their digestive system uses bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut. Fermentation process breaks down the aromatic substances in their leafy diet. This fermentation and break down digestive process makes these birds to give off manure like stench.

Stink Bird

Tasmanian Devil

This animal is only found in the Australia’s State of Tasmania. Tasmanian Devil when stressed, gives off a nasty odor from its body which not only protects it from predators but also protect its environment from human intruders. When feeling relaxed they do not smell.

Tasmanian Devil

Wolverine

Wolverine is a species of Weasel family. They are shy by nature and are seldom seen by humans. Like many weasel family species, they have special glands on their body. These glands are used to secrete fluid to mark out their territory. The liquid released by Wolverines is so smelly that they have been given nicknames like Skunk Bear or Nasty Cat. Wolverines have a bizarre habit of spraying this liquid over their left out food for protection during storage. This also helps them to find their stored food easily and deter other scavenging animals to dig out their food.

Wolverine

Skunk:-

Skunks are naturally not very fast runner so they are blessed by nature with a rather smelly weapon. Instead of outrunning their attackers, they spray a pungent rancid liquid spray on to these attackers. This liquid is a mixture of sulfuric chemicals. Skunks are able to target their attackers accurately with this liquid spray from a distance of three meters. The smell however can reach up to a distance of a mile. Skunks do not like to spray this liquid often as they can only produce 15 cc of the chemical inside their bodies in a week. These 15 cc amount can be used for 5 to 8 sprays.

Skunk

Hibernating Animals

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For wild animals surviving through harsh winter and food shortages becomes rather challenging. To counter this some animals have adapted to certain natural process called hibernation. Hibernation is often confused with a long sleep but it is rather more different. During hibernation, animals decrease their following boy functions.

  • Metabolic rate
  • Temperature
  • Heart rate
  • Breathing
  • Need for food

We bring you some of the hibernating animals in the animal kingdom.

Bears:-

Almost every knowledgeable person knows that bears are hibernating animals. You will be amazed to know that instead of Hibernation they go into a process called Torpor which is also quite similar to hibernation. In Torpor condition bears are able to drop their heart rate, breathing rate and even decrease their body temperature but they can still wake up easily and they often do wake up.  In this condition bears can still go on without waking, eating, drinking or even go on to stay asleep without need of disposing any wastes materials from their bodies.Bears

Box Turtles:-

Many species of turtles can hibernate but this process is dependent on their exact species and the geographical location. Box Turtles of the turtle species are able to hibernate from three to five months in a year. For hibernation, they dig holes in grounds called burrows. Once settled inside these burrows, turtles drop down their heart beat rte from 5 to 10 beats in one minute and after that they completely stop breathing. No, they do not die after stopping breathing as they take up oxygen through their skin.

Box Turtles

Common Poorwill:-

It is uncommon to hear that birds hibernate. This is true because most birds do not hibernate except only one bird known as “Common Poorwill”. Common Poorwill only hibernates because there is shortage of its insect food in winter season. They choose hibernation over migration to pass the winter. For hibernation they snuggle themselves up in a hollow tree log and lower down their metabolic rate.

Common Poorwill

Bats:-

Bats choose the state of Torpor (reduce Hibernation) overnight after either temperature drops or food becomes scarce. Some species of Bats do take up long hibernation states in winter season and generally these species are in the areas where insect food supply becomes scarce in winter. In both states of Torpor and Hibernation, bats hung themselves upside down on ceilings or walls of caves while reducing their heart rate to only 10 beats per minute.

Bats

Bumble bees:-

Not all the species of bees hibernate. However for Bumble bees and especially their queen, hibernation is necessary for survival. All the male and worker bumble bees die after the temperature drops down. Queen left alone find a place to wait until winter passes. After temperature rise again, queen again builds a nest and lay out a whole new bee colony.

Bumble bees

Animals with unusual mating tactics

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Animals unlike humans have different rituals for mating with each other. Attracting a female in animal kingdom cannot always be appealing sight. Animals have developed different mating rituals over the course of their thousand years of evolution process and some of these mating tactics are not at all romantic. For our readers today we brought you few of the animals with unusual mating tactics and rituals.

Bird of paradise:-

Bird of Paradise is known for its dance moves in the wilderness. To attract a female for mating, male Bird of Paradise has to go through lot of effort. Their unique dancing moves are passed from father to child through generations. These dances moves are further refined by newer bird generations. Birds of paradise use these inherited dance moves to attract females for mating rituals. Male birds move their feathers upwards in a manner like lifting a skirt before performing their dance. Females watch this dance from sitting high above branches of trees.

Bird of paradise

Bowerbirds:-

Bowerbirds are quite romantic creatures when it comes to mating. They pay a great attention towards the mating area as mating ritual. They are known s Bowerbirds because for attracting a female they make exquisite bird structures called Bowers. These bowers are made from twigs and the floor is lined with stones, shells and bones. Furthermore they decorate this bower with shiny metal objects found from either jungle or from human population along with flower petals.

Bowerbirds

Praying mantis:-

For male praying mantis mating ritual is quite a deathly ordeal as he gets to be eaten by the female mantis during mating. Usually in mantis species, female attracts the male mantis by releasing her special pheromones. It depends solely on the luck of male mantis, as to whether his head is going to be bitten off or not even before mating. Some males are however lucky enough to get away uninjured. Eating the male is necessary for female mantis, as these males make up for 60 percent of their diet. Female who eats a male during mating lays more eggs.

Praying mantis

Red Garter snakes:-

Competition for mating in red garter snake species becomes a whole lot messier than any other animal species. At the time of mating around 100 male red garter snakes go after a single female. In this mating ritual female is in the middle of huge ball of snakes.

Red Garter snakes

Giraffes:-

Giraffes are courteous animals when it comes to mating. They always confirm if female is ready for mating or not. The method by which male giraffes confirm this is rather displeasing. They do so by drinking the female giraffe’s urine. After confirming that female is ready to mate, one or more male giraffes compete with each other by swinging their necks.

Giraffes

10 Remarkable Facts about These Animals

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Animals are an amazing creature of planet Earth. Each of them is unique with different capabilities. So we just have compiled a list of 10 of these unique animals. Get fascinated to know learn the facts never heard before.

1. Elephants are the only animal which that cannot jump.

Elephants

2.A frog can be hypnotized by placing it on its back and gently massaging the stomach.

3. Shrimps have their heart in their head.

Shrimps

4.  A sloth can take up to 2 weeks to digest.

sloth

5. In comparison Ostrich eye is bigger then it’s brain.

6. Majority of Orangutans have fractured bone due to falling from trees.

Orangutans

7. Giraffes have no Vocal Cords.

Giraffes

8. 3% of the ice in Antartica is penguin’s urine.

penguin

9. Slug has 4 noses.

10. On Average, a snail can sleep for 3 years.

snail

Animals whose bites can kill you gruesomely

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Animals are wild creatures that act on impulses. Even if you keep them as pets from life their natural instincts can kick in any time and they can attack you. Some of the animals and especially the carnivorous ones are equipped with strong jaws that can bite with a surprisingly strong force and if a human is their victim only a miracle can prevent them from a gruesome death. We present to you some of the animals whose bites can kill you gruesomely.

Tiger:-

Tiger is the biggest species of the Cat family group who I also a solitary hunter by nature. They hunt mostly at night and stalk their prey. They attack their prey by biting down on its neck to cut down the flow of both air and blood going towards the head. Their powerful bite has a force of around 1050 psi. They usually avoid human contact but reports have been there of trigger attacks on humans.

Tiger

Grizzly Bear:-

Grizzly Bear has the bite force of about 1200 psi.

Grizzly Bear is the North American sub species for the Brown Bear but is only far aggressive and larger in size when compared with brown bear. It may be huge in size but it can run with a speed of 56 km/h.

It is believed that due to their size they are unable to climb on trees like other bears which use this skill as a defense mechanism. Grizzly bear not being able to climb trees switched to aggressive nature to ward off any threat. Grizzly Bear only attacks humans if it is threatened or spooked or if his cubs are poached.

Grizzly Bear

Gorilla:-

The bite force of Gorillas is measured at about 1300 psi.

This is quite surprising because Gorillas are purely vegetarian by nature. The reason for this much jaw force and strong jaws is that they were given these jaws by evolution of chewing down hard plants like bamboos. Along with jaws, their neck muscles are also astonishingly strong than most animals.

They are close relatives to human after chimpanzees. Gorillas are generally gentle creature and avoid attacking humans unless they are provoked.

Gorilla

Jaguar:-

Jaguar has a bite force of around 2000 psi.

Jaguar has the strongest bite force in the whole Cat family and whole of land mammal species. Jaguar is the real king of the jungle and is mostly found in Mexico to Argentina region. Jaguars unlike other cats kill the prey by biting down its head. Jaguar is also a solitary hunter by nature. Its bite is recorded to be so strong that it can break through a turtle shell easily. Their numbers have already vanished from Southern United States but some breeding population is rumored to be in Arizona.

Jaguar

Nile crocodile:-

Nile crocodile has the highest biting force in animal kingdom and it is about 5000 psi.

Nile crocodile are undoubtedly the most gruesome creatures with strong bite force in the world. There are varying debates as to whether Nile crocodile has the most bite force or the Salt water crocodile but a majority of researchers incline towards Nile crocodile.

Nile crocodiles mainly feed on fish but will attack anything that crosses their way.

Nile crocodile

Desert animals with exceptional survival adaptations

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Desserts are the places that are home to some of the most amazing creatures on the planet. These animals survival the harshest environments of these deserts with their nature gifted survival adaptations. For our readers today we bring some of the desert animals that have exceptional survival instincts born out of evolution.

Kenyan Sand Boa:-

Kenyan Boa is one the smallest species of the boa that strict to desert environments. They spend most of their life remaining buried inside sand or under a rock.

Its eyes and nostrils are positioned on head in such a manner that it does not let any sand to enter through these intrusions. They can live without food for almost two years. It has two following hunting methods.

First is that it seizes the passing by prey by simply lying still under the sand. Second method involves killing the prey by grabbing and suffocating it by taking the prey inside the sand. For mating with female boa snake, male boa snake have to dig out the female out of the sand.

Kenyan Sand Boa

Sandfish:-

Sandfish is actually a lizard species that has high adaption in living in desert environment. Just like its name it can swim through desert sand like a fish swimming inside water. This adaptation allows it to be protected from direct sunlight by being underground and constantly on the move. Its skin is smooth and shiny but does not have slime like fishes as it is a reptile and reptiles have dry skin.

Sandfish

Desert Tortoise:-

Morafka desert tortoise also has an amazing desert survival adaption hidden inside its rock like dry shell that prevents it from dehydration. It has an oversized balder inside its shell which can carry 50 times its original weight worth of urea, uric acid, wastes and water.

In rainy season, tortoises excrete the wasters and urea and store water by drinking in excess, inside their bladders. If they are spooked it can result them to excrete the excess storage of water from sheer fear shock.

Desert tortoise also has feet that are built for easier walking on sand. With these strong feet they also build holes in sand during rains to drink water and storing inside their bladder.

Desert Tortoise

Desert Lizard:-

According to scientific research, Texas horned lizard and Thorny devil are two desert lizards that have strange physiological adaptation in their skin. Their skin prevents any loss of water or absorption of water through skin.

However the Thorny Lizard one of the famous desert lizard has Miniature tube like channels on its skin that absorb water in minute form and channel it towards the lizard’s mouth. After entering the indent of lizard’s mouth, lizard then suck water to survive in the harsh desert. This process is termed as Cutaneous Water Acquisition by researchers.

Desert Lizard

Roadrunner:-

Humans might have the need to drink their own urine for survival but same survival adaptation is found in one other desert animal. The name of this animal is Roadrunner. Roadrunner conserves and uses the water by drawing it out from its fecal wastes whilst inside their body and absorbs it again.

After a meal, digestive system of the roadrunner absorbs the water from the feces of the bird which are inside the excretory cancel. Prior to eliminating the feces from its body, water is reabsorbed by roadrunner via this bizarre physiological process. Water is absorbed by Villi projections of the blood vessels in the intestinal tract. These projections absorb the water and again enter it inside the blood stream.

Roadrunner

Exotic pets which are both unique and rare

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People who love to keep pts often have tendencies r impulses to buy the exotic ones. These exotic animals might be a little too pricy for one’s pocket but you can’t put a price tag on a passion. Same goes for these exotic animal pet enthusiasts. For our readers today we bring you a list comprise of exotic pet animals that are not ordinarily found in pet sores. They are both unique and rare to find and keep as pets.

Prehensile talked Porcupine:-

Prehensile Tailed Porcupine hails from the land of Central and Southern American. This unique porcupine has a unique trait about its facial features; it looks too damn funny while living in trees. These large sized rodents have the body odor that s quite similar to that of humans. As they are arboreal creatures, they need large enclosure for proper nurture if kept as pets.

Prehensile talked Porcupine

Agouti:-

Agouti is a species of Rodents that are from South America. They have excellent swimming ability. Their unique trait is that they live in Monogamous (one particular male and a female couple) pairs. They can also be kept as pets but for their well being always buy two of them at a time.

Agouti

Dik Dik:-

Dik Dik belongs to species of antelopes. They are tiny in size a compared with other antelopes. They were so unique and rare that they often sold for a price tag of 6000 dollars or up.

Dik Dik

Raccoon Dog:-

Tanuki or also known as Raccoon Dog is a normal colored animal which has striking resemblance with a raccoon. However this particular exotic animal hails from East Asia. They are officially banned in USA for keeping as pets but they can be kept as pets in Europe.

Raccoon Dog

Prevost Squirrel:-

Prevost squirrel is one of the amazingly beautiful exotic animals out there. People often find their unique skin color to be sale advertisement but it is all real. These active rodents make quite a nice pet but they require large petting house and lot of enriched nutrients for proper growth. Nowadays these squirrels are hard to come by.

Prevost Squirrel

Ring Tailed Cat:-

Ring Tailed cats are closely related to raccoons in looks. This animal can also be kept as an exotic pet but license is need for that. Although their number in today’s pet trade are dwindled but in past they were quite a few number of young ring tailed cats available for sale and thy do make a great pet.

Ring Tailed Cat

Kinkajou:-

Kinkajou is one of highly popular exotic pets in pet trading world. Kinkajous have been reported to have sudden aggressive nature and they often attack their own masters on a whim. One such incident happened with celebrity Paris Hilton who was bitten by her pet Kinkajou which she kept illegally.

Kinkajou

Exotic pets; legal but dangerous as well

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Various people around the world are in love with multitude of species of the exotic animals. Some of these animals are even legal to be purchased but at the same time they are quite dangerous and can pose serious threat to life. We have gathered a list of such legal but dangerous exotic pet animals.

Crocodile Monitor:-

Crocodile Monitor is a deadly species of crocodiles that can even grow up to 10 to 12 feet in enclosed captivity let alone in the wild. Pet owners of these Monitors do not usually keep big enclosure for them, stuffing them inside small cages one over another.

Their animalistic behavior is variable by each individual. They can be small but their bites are still very fierce due to their serrated teeth and strong jaw power. Their bites on average can cause finger amputations or deep tissue wounds. Their saliva is densely populated with bacteria that can result in rapid severe infection to bitten area.

Crocodile Monitor

Constrictor Snakes:-

Large constrictor snakes are a problem to keep as pets because they are quite escape artists. Owners that do not diligently study before keeping these snakes as pets can feel the problem after they escape. If there is even a small opening in their enclosure they can find a way to escape and can cause unseen terrifying menace. They are often reported by owners to escape and result in strangulation of other pets and even human children.

Constrictor Snakes

Wolf Dogs:-

Wolf dogs are considered more of a threat to human life when compared with original wolfs when kept as pets. Wild animals have the natural tendency to be cautious of humans and even show fear when facing them. However for Wolf Dogs they have the independent nature from their Wolf blood and on the same hand they have no fear of humans arising from their dog blood. All wolf dogs do not suffer from problematic behavior but it is not known which specific breed has these problems.

If not given large, secure enclosure along with mandatory training, wolf dogs can act put on heir wolfish impulse and combined with loss of human fear can pose a threat to human life.

Wolf Dogs

Elephants:-

Animals are quite popular for keeping as pets in many Asian countries. However they pose a real threat to human safety. They cannot be deliberately attacking and still harm someone by accident alone, due to their enormous size and insane power.

If they get spooked by any reason they kill the individual in the close proximity whether it is their master or not.

Elephants

Chimpanzees:-

Chimpanzees are not only equipped with incredible body strength but their cognitive functions are more complex as compared with elephants. They are a completely different species from monkeys but like them their behavior can totally change at any given moment under unexplainable circumstances. These animals might be legal in some countries to keep as pets but their uncertain behavioral change and enhanced cognitive a well as increased bodily strength make them a dangerous choice for an exotic pet.

Chimpanzees