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Plan To Avoid Some Wildlife On Your Camping Trip

24 Jan 2008By
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! *** Wildlife To Avoid On A Camping Trip by Darren Lintern Going on a camping trip can be on [ ... ]
Category: Animal Tips & Tricks, Bears, Canadian Animals, Carnivore, Cats, Endangered Species, Mammals, North American Animals  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  2 Comments

Global Warming Is Killing Arctic Whales

17 Jan 2008By
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 *** 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 [ ... ]
Category: Arctic Animals, Endangered Species, Mammals, Marine Animals, Whales  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,  5 Comments

Peregrine Falcons – Making A Comeback

14 Jan 2008By
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. *** 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 [ ... ]
Category: African Animals, Asian Animals, Australian Animals, Birds, Canadian Animals, Carnivore, Endangered Species, European Animals, North American Animals, South American Animals  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,  One Comment

Request An Animal To Be Featured…

12 Jan 2008By
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 Technorati Tags: animals, exotic animal, animal news, pets, exotic pets, fauna, mammals Yup, that's right! I have always wanted to start an animal refuge of my own...If you would like to help [ ... ]
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How To Collect Great Shells on Eastern American Beaches

06 Jan 2008By
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! *** 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 [ ... ]
Category: Animal Tips & Tricks, Marine Animals, North American Animals  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,  One Comment

Are Animals Getting Smarter?

04 Jan 2008By
By Tracey Wilson 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 [ ... ]
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Amazonian Anaconda

01 Jan 2008By
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 *** 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 [ ... ]
Category: Carnivore, Reptiles, Snakes, South American Animals  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  One Comment