California Sea Lion

will start feeding from their mother within twenty minutes. After about 24 hours calves can walk and even run. At birth calves are 6ft. tall and weigh 150 lbs. Calves they are very vulnerable to lions because they don’t have enough weight to protect themselves. 50% of the calves born in the wild die from lions. Calves grow 3 cm. Each day for the first week. In a year calves will grow to be about 10ft. tall and be weaned. Even after being weaned they are still vulnerable and become fully…

The Saber-toothed Tiger, or the “Smilodon”, was a prehistoric predator, that lived in the southern part of the Americas. (California, Texas, Florida, etc) The Saber-toothed Tiger is named after their long, canine like teeth, that extend from their upper jaw. Existing during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 56 million - 12,000 years ago), Saber-toothed tigers were elongated, stocky animals, that were ferocious, meat eating hunters. The Smilodon populator, or the Saber-tooth Tiger hunted in packs,…

Prey need peripheral vision to survive, they need it to be able to see predators so they won’t get eaten. Peripheral vision is a wide horizontal range of vision found on prey that ranges from 290-310 degrees, leaving them with a 50 degree blind spot, with horses as one of the only exceptions because they have a 350 degree horizontal range. but they do not have the depth perception and focus that predators might have, because of predators tunnel vision. You can tell if they are predators or prey…

The lion is known as king of the jungle. Lions commonly found in Africa, from Europe to Iran, and India. Nowadays, lions currently exist in Africa and India. African lions are called as Panthera Leo. Sometime they are called big cats of wild. There is one interesting fact about lion is that “both male and female lions roar, and that roar can be heard over five miles away” (qtd. in “Basic Facts about Lions”). The Tree Life of Web Project states, “Lions belong to the genus Panthera which contains…

An issue that has sparked debate in recent years is the care of wild animals in captivity. Peoples main concerns align with the belief that wild animals belong in their natural habitat not confined to cages. To ease civil unrest, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) was created to hold Zoos accountable for the care of their animals by requiring them to develop enrichment programs to simulate the natural environment of animals that cannot be released back into the wild. Although polices…

Onyx - The Tribe leader who must possess the power of prophecy. The Onyx cannot speak to clan cats, the Lapis must speak for him/her. Lapis - The speaker for the Onyx and Zircon. Must posses the empathy power. Zircon - Four of the most sk!lled cats in the tribe. They act as deputies over the tribe. Zircon cannot speak to clan cats directly. Quartz - A term for the warriors of the tribe. Agate - The healer of the Tribe, does not require any specific power. Uses minerals and spiritual healing…

Unlike lions, tigers are solitary animals. The tigers have to be self-dependent if they intend to survive. The tiger maneuvers swiftly through the dense underbrush, like a winding river. The forest alive with sounds, the tiger surveys her domain watching keenly…

and on evergreen species, near streams and rivers, during the dry season. A giraffe’s primarily predator is a lion but they are also preyed by Leopards and Hyenas.…

not killing it but merely wounded it. The wound was not fatal, and the team tracked the lion for 40 hours before shooting it with a rifle, skinning the corpse, and cutting off the head . Targeting such creatures as Cecil, opponents contend, undermines conservation efforts by diminishing wildlife populations. "When an adult male lion is killed, the destabilization of that lion's pride can lead to more lion deaths as outside males compete to take over the pride," Jeff Flocken, North American…

This article discusses the second instance of observed meat eating by a Bornean orangutan in the wild. The first instance of meat eating in Bornean orangutans was in Gunung Palung National Park, where a young female was observed hunting and consuming a rat. In this instance a flanged male orangutan found in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia was observed eating an adult horse-tailed squirrel. The observers concluded that since there was no evidence of a chase or sounds of distress the orangutan most…