Plan To Avoid Some Wildlife On Your Camping Trip
January 24, 2008 by Kimberly · 2 Comments
Camping is good, wholesome, family fun…But, it is important to be aware of the wildlife around you, especially if you are in bear country…
Grizzlies can be especially dangerous!
Grizzly Bear Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. arctos
Subspecies: U. a. horribilis
Conservation Status:
The Grizzly Bear is an Endangered species.
American Black Bear Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. americanus
Conservation Status:
The American Black Bear is a species considered to be of least concern in regards to it’s conservation status…That’s great news!
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Wildlife To Avoid On A Camping Trip by Darren Lintern
Going on a camping trip can be on one of the finest adventures. Fresh air, stunning scenery, magnificent trees, and more are all likely to surround your campsite. But we aren’t the only species to be found around camping grounds. And not all the other ones are friendly.
Bears may appear to look cuddly on TV programmes, but there are certain species that are dangerous and nearly everyone will have difficulty in telling the difference between one and the next. Adult grizzlies, for example are normally considered as life-threatening. Being able to establish the difference between a grizzly and a black bear can be tricky.
Black Bears as the name suggests are darkly coloured. But the grizzlies will differ from black to brownish yellow. Size can be a potential indicator, but it’s still difficult to notice the differences between an adult black bear (at 250 to 500 pounds and stands at 5 feet tall) and a junior grizzly.
Adult grizzly bears are significantly Read more
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Global Warming Is Killing Arctic Whales
January 17, 2008 by Kimberly · 5 Comments
How you ask? Check out this article to find out!
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Cetacea
Photo above: Narwhals
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How Does Global Warming Affect Arctic Whales?
By Sylvie Leochko
Global warming affects negatively the environment and everything in it. There are more than just humans that are affected by it. In fact, such a negative process has been hasted by the human race through pollution. While the Earth is trying its best to cool out its environment by using its natural resources such as volcanic eruptions, it cannot seem to be able to be as effective as needed.
Several species are affected negatively by global warming, especially at the Poles. In fact, as these regions are the most vulnerable ones, the living beings inhabiting these areas are fighting for their own survival. Arctic whales such as Bowheads, Belugas and Narwhals are also suffering from global warming. How does global warming affect Arctic whales?
Global warming is a process affecting the temperature of the atmosphere, which provides negative effects on the environment, its fauna, its flora as well as climates. In fact, it has been creating such a havoc that several species either had to adapt, become endangered of face extinction.
Photo right: Beluga Whale
You see, now that global warming has been responsible for Read more
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Peregrine Falcons – Making A Comeback
The Peregrine Falcon is a bird that is close to the heart of many Niagarans…
At Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, they have been running a breeding program for this dangerously endangered bird in this area…
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falco
Species: F. peregrinus
Conservation Status:
On a whole, the Peregrine Falcon is a species of least concern…However, in this area, their numbers have been slowly growing from an endangered state.
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Birds – The Peregrine Falcon by Michael Russell
The peregrine falcon is the best known falcon and most widespread in the world. However if you travel to North Dakota, you won’t see many and you will not find any at all in Antarctica.
This falcon was on the endangered species list back in 1970 because of a problem with egg shell thinning that was caused mainly by use of the pesticide DDT during the 1950s and 60s. It took biologists 20 years to figure out that the pesticide used to protect plants from insects was the problem affecting these birds and other animals. Small animals ate the plants contaminated with the pesticide, and when the peregrine falcon hunted those animals, the infected flesh poisoned them. The chemical even changed the behavior of peregrine falcons in that it made them stop caring for their young.
The federal government banned the use of DDT in the United States; however, the recovery process took a while because the chemical residue remained in the environment. Other countries which are home to peregrine falcons still use DDT, and that, along with trapping and shooting by poachers, still cause the bird’s population to decrease. Today the endangered list still includes the peregrine falcon, and they are gradually increasing in population.
The peregrine falcon is not a very large bird; it is about the size of a Read more
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Request An Animal To Be Featured…
January 12, 2008 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Hello Exotic Animal Lovers…
I just wanted to write to you today to let you know that I would love it if you would request animals to be featured on Exotic Animal Lover…
Are there animals you yearn to learn about?
Let me know which animals you love and I’ll do my best to post them as a feature…
Happy Thinking!
Until next time…
Live Exotically,
Kimberly Edwards 
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How To Collect Great Shells on Eastern American Beaches
Collecting Shells is one of my favorite pastimes at beaches. You never know what you’ll find, and it reminds me of my youth! Relaxing and fun!
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Shell Collecting on America’s Eastern Beaches
By John C. Banks
America’s Mid Atlantic beaches can yield a wide range of shells, artifacts and unique treasures. Atlantic shells tend to include knobby whelks, smooth whelks, moon snails, periwinkles, bay scallops, ocean quahogs, hard clams, jingles, limpets, cockles and others.
In addition to mollusks and shellfish, there are other items such as sand dollars, starfish, ray and shark egg cases, horseshoe crab egg cases, crab shells, sharks teeth and occasionally even gold or silver coins!
Time and location are important for the collector. While the warm days of summer find most beach lovers out, the best collecting is actually in the cooler months. One good way to find shells along beaches is to look for Read more
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Are Animals Getting Smarter?
January 4, 2008 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
By Are animals getting smarter? Not long ago on Utube, I watched some amazing animal videos. In these videos you could see proof of the animal using cause and effect.
In one video, a raccoon was captured in a concrete cage, outside. The top of the cage was opened, but he was enclosed on all four sides. The raccoon, with a lot of effort, was able to lean a broken tree limb, which was lying in the bottom of his cage, in one of the corners of the cage. He then used the broken limb as a ladder and climbed his way out to freedom.
In another video, there was a wild bird, (I don’t recall the species), but he was standing on a pier looking out into the water. Nearby the wild bird on the pier were some bread crumbs – instead of eating the bread crumbs, the wild bird picked up the bread and walked to the end of the pier, dropping the bread into the water. He then waited patiently, never taking his eyes off of the bread. The wild bird was quickly rewarded for his patience when a Read more
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Amazonian Anaconda
Anaconda are the largest snakes in the world!!! I have always wanted to travel the Amazon and see one in the wild…
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Eunectes
Species:
1. E. beniensis
2. E. deschauenseei
3. E. murinus
4. E. notaeus
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Anaconda Snakes Today- Updating News
By Michael Gutemberg
Anaconda snakes, for sure, conjures up an image of a gigantic, black, serpentine creature slithering in mud and constricting a hapless creature to death. You are not to be blamed for this. Instead, blame those numerous movie directors and novelists who, thanks to their imagination or lack of it, portrayed these docile creatures as vileness epitomized.
Urban legends and rumors are awash with horror tales of anaconda snakes gobbling up innocent kids, regurgitating and re-swallowing their victims thereby giving them a slow and painful death and so on and so forth. So much for the creativity of human brain! Ask a biologist and you will get a drastically different image, an image of a Read more
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