Showing posts with label Flora And Fauna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flora And Fauna. Show all posts

29 Jan 2012

5 Types of Flowers Strangest

When you think of flowers, you may be thinking about the garden full of roses or a stretch of green fields dotted with fresh daisies.
It seems there are times when nature wants us to be amazed at the strangeness rather than beauty.


1. The Naked Coral Tree - Erythrina coralloides

    
Erythrina coralloides also known as Coral Tree Fire, this is the kind of flowering tree in the pea family Fabaceae, can be found ranging from the U.S. state of Arizona to Oaxaca in Mexico. These plants have a hard red petals, looks like a coral / reef, where usually grow in the desert.

27 Jan 2012

Prazzer- 5 Amazing Animals Radiating Light to Yourself

5 Amazing Animals Radiating Light to YourselfFauna of the world is a world that continues to be extracted by the scientists found, and studied for the purpose of Sciences, of the many world fauna that have been successfully studied some properties last diataranya
extraordinary life. Amazing Animals such as 5 to Radiating Light Alone below.


 

1. Anglerfish
Anglerfish is a unique fish. His appearance at a glance creepy because her body is round & has a wide mouth yg & long curved fangs. Another characteristic is the angler fish light organ on the kind of "fishing line" at the top of the muzzle. Another type of angler fish, for example Thaumaticthys pagidostomus, has light organs under his teeth. Angler fish have no swim bladder (due to the depth of the swim bladder or lung humans) will be destroyed by the pressure under the sea, so fish that spend their entire lives at sea in & never rises to the surface.


6 Jan 2012

PRAZZER- New fish species found

Scientists from the Smithsonian Institute said that the blenny fish that live in clusters of coral in the Atlantic and Pacific seas, very little known information. Similarly, as quoted from UPI.com.

Fish Blenny Fish Spesias New to Discover

Scientists say that the classification of the three species of blenny fish that contrary to previous studies of the fish DNA, from larvae to adulthood, finally managed to uncover the seven species that have not been classified.

"DNA analysis has offered science a resource to answer old questions," said Carole Baldwin, a zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

PRAZZER- Rare Snake Faounded in Sumatra

 Researchers WWF Indonesia, Ridwan Setiawan, discovered snake species tree Sumatran Sumatran pit viper or viper. Named species of Trimeresurus sumatranus it is not a new species, but relatively rare species.
"In Sumatra, it's difficult to find this species. First may be quite often, it's rare, "said the researcher who is familiarly called Iwan Podol it.

5 Jan 2012

PRAZZER- mosquitoes urinate when sucking

Blood-sucking insects bleak mosquitoes did have a strange behavior when sucking blood. As is known in advance by experts, they pee first. And, unexpectedly, they also issued a pre-urine liquid form of blood!

PRAZZER- The Biggest Frog IN the world

 Toads are commonly seen in Indonesia no larger than mice. But there are frogs that weighed about 4 pounds or almost 2 pounds. That's Frog African living in Mozambique.

 

In this picture looks the frog being swallowed rat rat even his head was still visible at the tip of the frog's mouth. Mice that captured the giant frog legs only comparable with the Giant Frog.
arican Bullfrog Giant Beetle from Africa

Horrible and disgusting as it seems. But that fact in Africa with a wealth of wildlife and fauna of the extreme and unique.


PRAZZER- prehistoric creature that still lives today

 Creatures that live in prehistoric times it turns out there who lived till now .. The creature is it??Did dinosaurs as we often hear?? or something else??Apparently a Fish
Fish is it??Ok, let's look at the five fish which lived in prehistoric times and is found up to now ..



 1.Alligator Gar
Prehistoric creatures that lived up to now
A thick scaly great predators are found in the U.S. south, north and east of Mexico, the largest freshwater fish in North America (although it occasionally wanders to the sea). They can grow to 4 meters (13 ') long and weigh up to 200 kg (440 pounds).
Gars Gator so they nicknamed, because of their appearance like reptiles with long jaws, armed with two rows of sharp teeth. They are voracious predators that ambush directly and has been known as a superior human biter, but not confirmed a record that causes death by Gars Gator today. Gars is one of the oldest fish alive today, their origin can be traced back to the Cretaceous period.



PRAZZER- 8 Animals Greatest Throughout History

Today, we rarely encountered animals that have a larger size except the Blue Whale. But you know, it was precisely during the dinosaur era, many animals are very large body size extra large even compared with today's animals.


1.Giganotosaurus: Predator Army Greatest of All TimeWB.Giganotosaurus.sm 8 Animals Greatest Throughout History
Giganotosaurus was crowned as the largest land predator that ever existed. Gigan body structure similar to the t-rex.
But the t-rex is shorter and the body 'only' about 9 meters, while Gigan adults can reach 13 meters. This giant dropped the prey live in groups in a bleak magnitude Argentinosaurus adults.


PRAZZER- PHOTOS OF INSECT LIKE in The Fairy Tale




4 Dec 2011

PRAZZER- ORANGUTAN `S LIFE

Orangutans are the only great ape found in Asia, precisely in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Other great apes in the African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), gorillas (Pan gorilla) and banobo (Pan paniscus). Orangutans belong to the Order Primates, Pongidae Familia, and species Pongo pygmaeus (orangutan of Borneo) and abelli Pongo (orangutans are found on the island of Sumatra).
The characteristics of the Body:
* Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelli) has the physical characteristics of a larger body, dark or reddish brown, hairs sparse and short, and the baby appears there patches of reddish or greenish.* The Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) physical features body look smaller, light-colored or orange, and hand bones are longer.* In general, male orangutans have cheekpad on both cheeks and her size two times larger than females, with body weight in the wild ranges between 50-90 kg.




PRAZZER- KOMODO ISLAND

As the name implies, the island of Komodo is an island known as a habitat for native animals dragons (Varanus komodoensis), by locals, this animal is called Ora.Until now, animal dragons becomes a source of pride for local revenue from the tourists who visit the island with a population of approximately 4000 inhabitants.



On this island, tourists can see the animals dragons are the world's largest lizard species with an average body length reaches up to 3.13 meters and weighing up to 165 kg. Travelers can also watch the various activities of these rare animals, such as dragons mating occurs between the months of May through August; dragon was eating the deer, goats, pigs and watch the dragons bask in the street and in the branches of trees in the morning.


PRAZZER- CENDRAWASIH BIRD


Paradise bird widely spread in eastern Indonesia, especially Papua, Ternate, AruIslands, several small islands around it, and also in Papua New Guinea, Australia,and adjacent islands.

1980 Papua WWF says there are 48 species of paradise in the region, but due to the encroachment of forest conversion is limited in the & .. Well-known speciesinclude: Paradisaea apoda, Paradisaea minor, Cicinnurus Regius, and Seleucidismelanoleuca.

Beautiful coat primarily found on male paradise. Generally, the feathers are verybright with a combination of black, reddish brown, orange, yellow, white, blue, green,even purple.

These birds live alone in the mountain valleys of tropical forests and the usualnesting high above the canopy of large trees. The size of an adult male about 46inches to the tail. When the wings spread, large birds can reach 61 cm from tip to tip.

Paradise Females usually lay eggs 2 eggs, hatching and rearing their own children.Female bird feathers and pale children and they gathered in a flock so as not to be disturbed enemy.

Paradise classified as omnivores to eat fruit, seeds, insects, snails, and smalllizards. The entire species is protected since 1931 by the Wildlife Protection Act th.1931.

Because of the proliferation arrest, logging, oil palm plantations, timber & searchgaharu in the forest, these birds are threatened with extinction. Even in YapenWaropen, an area that has been the center of their habitat, already hard to find this bird. According to Regional Director of WWF Sahul Papua, Benja V Mambai.

Laurentz National Park there are 20 types of paradise, but lately no longer visible. In Jayapura, especially in the mountains of Cyclops & Mamberamo, there are 18 typesof paradise, but now no longer found.

PRAZZER- BLACK ORCHID



Black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata) is a species of orchid that grows only on the island of Borneo. Black orchid flora is the mascot of East Kalimantan province.Currently, black orchid native habitat has decreased considerable amount because of the shrinking of forest area in Kalimantan, but can still be found in nature reservesLuway grit in small amounts. It is estimated that higher numbers are in the hands of the collector of orchids.


Named after the black orchid because it has a tongue orchids (labellum) with littleblack stripes green and hairy. Sepals and petals light green. The flowers are quitefragrant and unusual fragrant blooms in March and June.

Black orchid orchid is included in group simpodial with swollen bulb shape at the bottom and leaves sticking out on it. Each bulb has only two leaves only. The leavesthemselves glance like palm leaves on shoots.