Form & function
The cats collarbone is much reduced in size,it does not connect with other bones in the cat's body,but it is buried in the muscles of the shoulder region.This helps the animal to spring on its prey without having a risk of breaking its bone.With the powerful muscles that help the cat proper on its prey,the animal uses strong back muscles to straighten the spinal column.And provide extra force for springing and running.Cats are usually nocturnal in habit,which means their eyes can see in the night,their retina has a layer of guanine which is called,tapetum lucidum,which reflects light and causes their eye to shine when illuminated.Cats have a good sense of sight and hearing,but their sense of smell hasn’t developed much,as of that their canids which is a fact suggested by a cats small snout.Cats also like to stay very clean and they like everything neat.They groom themselves with rasping tongue.Feces and urine is covered as a matter of habit.Cats differ in their reaction to water.Most of the other species will enter the water when needed but swim slow and steady in it.Nervous tail wagging is common in all cats from the lion to the house cat.Most of the kittens learn it from their mother.this behaviour is associated with play.Did you know that cats are most highly specialised,among the terrestrial flesh eating animals.They are powerfully built,with a large brain and strong teeth.The cats teeth are adapted with these three functions 1 stabbing 2 anchoring and 3 cutting carnival morales.Cats have no flat crown crushing teeth and for that reason it does not chew its food,it cuts it.All cats are strict flesh eaters.
Panda’s
Panda
Giant Panda, Bear striking black and white collaboration, inhabiting bamboo forests in central china.Fewer than 1,900 pandas live in the entire world as of 2023.These large mammals may attain 1.8 metres (6 feet in the air)in length and wight more than 100 kg, which is about 220 pounds.But the female pandas are smaller than male pandas by a little.Round black ears and black eye stand out, against a white face and a neck.Black limbs tail and leg and shoulder contrasts with the white torso.Pandas can easily stand on their legs just like us humans do, Their rear paws point inward.They are probably capable to swim as well.Their enlarged wrist bone function somewhat like a thumb, allowing them to handle food with considerably dexterity.
Natural history
As much as 90-98 % of a panda's diet depends on leaves,shoots and stems of bamboo.Despite the adaptations, in their forpaws, teeth, and jaws are made for eating bamboo.The giant panda has retained the digestive system, of it’s carnivore ancestors.And it is not able to digest cellulose, which is a main part of a bamboo.Pandas solve this problem by rapidly consuming grass in them, to give them most of the energy they need.They need to excrete their waste about 50 times in a day.Remains have shown that pandas were committed to bamboos as their food source for about 3 million years now!!!Though in captivity they have been put on milk and cereal diets, and even fruits and garden foods.Bamboo is still a healthier diet for pandas, than what they give.I think this is because most of the bamboos are only found in china and that is also scarce(Not available very easily.
Wolfs
Physical description
Heightened senses, large, pointed canine teeth, powerful jaws, and the ability to go after prey at a speed of 60 km (37 miles) per hour, grant the wolf well for a predatory way of life. A typical northern male is usually about 2 metres (6.6 feet) long, including the bushy half-a-metre-long tail. Standing 76 cm (30 inches) tall at the shoulder, it weighs about 45 kg (100 pounds), but weight generally ranges from 14 to 65 kg (31 to 143 pounds), depending on the geographic area. Females average about 20 percent smaller than males. The largest wolves are found in west-central Canada , Alaska, and across northern Asia. The smallest tend to be near the southern end of their distribution (the Middle East Asia, Arabia, India). A fur coat on the upper body, though usually grey, may be brown, reddish, black, or whitish, while the belly side and legs are usually yellowish-white. Light-coloured wolves are common in Arctic regions due to the cold temperature in the freezing cold
Current population
Wolves are more prominent in population with the public now than at any other time in recorded history. In 1995 wolves from Canada were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho, and were released to their former range in eastern Arizona beginning in 1998. At the beginning of the 21st century, an estimated 65,000–78,000 wolves inhabited North America. Canada had by far the largest Population (although the areas of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island had no wolves), followed by Alaska and Minnesota. Some of the western states as well as Michigan and Wisconsin have smaller but recovering wolf populations. Canadian wolves are protected only within provincial parks, whereas all wolves in the contiguous United States receive some level of legal protection by federal and state governments; however, the wolf’s protected status in Alaska and the lower 48 states continues to be a matter of much arguing and debates, and they were removed from the U.S. endangered species list in 2020. Populations in southern Europe and Scandinavia are relatively small but are increasing because of legal protection over the species. The Eurasian population probably exceeds 150,000 and is stable and increasing in most countries, and most grant the wolf access to some degree of legal protection. Worldwide, wolves still take up about two-thirds of their former range, but they remain viable and have been classified as a species of least concern by the International Union for conservation of nature and natural resources since 1996. Although often thought of as wilderness animals, wolves can thrive close to humans when they are not excessively persecuted and food is available. But in the early 2000’s, wolves had been going down by a lot in terms of population. And things got worse in 2011 since wolves had no more legal protection. Now the average population of wolf in a country is about 18,000 - 50,000.
Wolves are being poached for their fur to be sold on the market to make products such as coats, handbags and casual clothing. There are wolf traps for hunters to also kill them. In 48 states and Mexico the wolves almost depleted population completely since there was a very high cost on wolf fur and they were killed because the government saw wolves as a threat to the citizens of the city. Luckily, northern grey wolves have stared growing in population in the Northern Rockies, California and the Pacific Northwest. Since then wolves were making progress and the population was increasing, but in 2011 all wolves were stripped of defensive protection and were legal to have offensive actions taken on them. And in 2020, Trump administrations had taken the wolves critical ESA protections, ever since then anti wolf legislative and extremist’s were on the offensive. Now wolves are in the endangered list of species and are being preserved in wildlife sanctuaries under protection and are slowly growing back in population.
Tigers
Reasons for endangerment
In the 1970s tiger hunting as a sport was banned in most countries where tigers lived, and the trade in tiger skins was also outlawed in most of the same countries. Nevertheless, even though it is illegal in a way, tiger skins are still highly valued for display around the world and for worship as well, as are claws, teeth, and clavicles for the use of making talismans. Skulls, bones, whiskers, sinews, meat, and blood have long been used by the Asians, especially the Chinese, in medicines, potions, and even to the extent of wine. These products are claimed to be useful in the treatment of rheumatism , rat bites, and various other diseases, for the restoration of energy, and as aphrodisiacs. Whiskers are believed to cause intestinal ulcers in one’s enemies therefore being used in war as a weapon of weakness. Poaching and the underground trade has been continuing for tiger parts despite seizures and destruction of the confiscated parts.
Although poaching has been responsible for keeping the number of tigers low during the past three decades, wild tigers would still be threatened even if all poaching ceased. In countries such as India, the needs of rapidly growing human populations over the last two centuries have reduced both the quantity and the quality of habitat . Forests and grasslands so often used by the tiger are cleared for agriculture, this leaves the tiger with little habitat to remain and not enough space to roam around. Reduction in prey populations that the tigers hunt results in greater dependence on livestock and the consequent retribution from man.
Physical description
The lizard can grow up to 3 metres (10 feet) in total length and has an average weight of about 135 kg (or 300 pounds). Although most young dragons are produced often through reproduction, females that are taken away or separated from males sometimes produce young Komodo Dragons through parthenogenesis. It digs a burrow generally about as deep as 9 metres (29 and a half feet) and lays eggs that hatch in April or May. The newly hatched young lizards, about 45 cm or 18 inches long, live in trees for several months before migrating to the ground to live as a juvenile or adult. They live in the Lesser island of sunda, Rintja, Padare and Flores and the island of Komodo.
Current population
Between 1996 and 2021 the International union for conservation of nature and natural Resources (IUCN) listed the Komodo dragon as an endangered species. Although the lizard’s population had less than 1,400 adults, ecologists noted that it was stable and at low risk from hunting and other threats such as poaching and habitat loss. However, in 2021 the IUCN decided to list the Komodo dragon as an endangered species in their red list because due to climate change, it was suggested that between 30 and 70 percent of the species’ habitat would be lost by 2040 to increases in sea level. Now where the Komodo dragon lives, it is protected severely in wildlife sanctuaries with a stable but slow growing population with about 1,500 living dragons including juveniles and adults.
Reasons for endangerment
Komodo dragons are endangered because they face a lot of man caused habitat destruction, the people on island used to cut down trees to make plots of land and agriculture and the Komodo dragons have been trying to find new land ever since as everywhere they went the trees were cut down. They also face illegal hunting as people think they pose a threat to humans so they were killed despite the law of not being able to hunt a Komodo dragon , but the fact is, Komodo dragons are very personal, as long as nothing is provoking or trying to provoke them. They are docile creatures and are trying to avoid humans instead of kill them even though one bite from a Komodo Dragon is lethal. The climate change problem is also affecting Komodo dragons as they live in a certain temperature area and due to the climate change problem the areas they live in are decreasing in temperature, so they are migrating to warmer areas to live but the temperature is affecting them wherever they go. And finally, the one thing that is one of the most common reasons for animal endangerment, poaching. These Komodo dragons face a lot of poaching for their skins and feet to make valuable handbags and fashion product, due to these causes, the Komodo islands which are one of the species origination places.Reasons for endangerment
Komodo dragons are endangered because they face a lot of man caused habitat destruction, the people on island used to cut down trees to make plots of land and agriculture and the Komodo dragons have been trying to find new land ever since as everywhere they went the trees were cut down. They also face illegal hunting as people think they pose a threat to humans so they were killed despite the law of not being able to hunt a Komodo dragon , but the fact is, Komodo dragons are very personal, as long as nothing is provoking or trying to provoke them. They are docile creatures and are trying to avoid humans instead of kill them even though one bite from a Komodo Dragon is lethal. The climate change problem is also affecting Komodo dragons as they live in a certain temperature area and due to the climate change problem the areas they live in are decreasing in temperature, so they are migrating to warmer areas to live but the temperature is affecting them wherever they go. And finally, the one thing that is one of the most common reasons for animal endangerment, poaching. These Komodo dragons face a lot of poaching for their skins and feet to make valuable handbags and fashion product, due to these causes, the Komodo islands which are one of the species origination places.Reasons for endangerment
Komodo dragons are endangered because they face a lot of man caused habitat destruction, the people on island used to cut down trees to make plots of land and agriculture and the Komodo dragons have been trying to find new land ever since as everywhere they went the trees were cut down. They also face illegal hunting as people think they pose a threat to humans so they were killed despite the law of not being able to hunt a Komodo dragon , but the fact is, Komodo dragons are very personal, as long as nothing is provoking or trying to provoke them. They are docile creatures and are trying to avoid humans instead of kill them even though one bite from a Komodo Dragon is lethal. The climate change problem is also affecting Komodo dragons as they live in a certain temperature area and due to the climate change problem the areas they live in are decreasing in temperature, so they are migrating to warmer areas to live but the temperature is affecting them wherever they go. And finally, the one thing that is one of the most common reasons for animal endangerment, poaching. These Komodo dragons face a lot of poaching for their skins and feet to make valuable handbags and fashion product, due to these causes, the Komodo islands which are one of the species origination places.
Poaching
Many people poach for many reasons, like food, they do it even just for fun, or to tell tales how they killed a tiger,leather, bones, and many more reasons.In some places they poach for money, and to reduce their poverty.Poaching between 2011-2015, poachers wiped out 90% of the elephants in the same locations.There were a few million elephants in Africa, in the 1990s but now there are only 400,000.Africa’s lion population has also decreased due to poaching.In the 1990s it reduced by 42% but now it is vulnerable.A successful poaching business can make billions of dollars, that is why most of the poor, or unemployed families have it in common, this helps them sell and poach the animals, illegally, most of the countries are working hard to prevent poaching, but somehow they bribe the police, or they just have some plan which is very sneaky and works.Even if one of the species gets extinct the entire food chain will get over, that is why the entire world wants to prevent poaching and save the food chain.Most of the people poach to earn and get money, but there are some which do it for fun, and hold it as a trophy.Some even poach to sell and they make sculptures out of it, like the tusks of the elephants are one of the most common to be converted into Artefacts.A recent myth that a rhino horn can cure cancer, led a massive poach in Africa in order to help or get money.But it was just a myth because of which thousands of rhinos were killed.Some criminals take the backhand and let villagers poach and give money to them, and they are the ones actually getting caught and the real boss, enjoys and gets all the good and money.There are a few places which are very threatening for poaching, these places are called wildlife trade hotspots, where most people hunt and do other things like selling, and sometimes even planning,This impact is usually more threatening than other causes of endangerment.Just overfishing causes a big impact in our entire marine ecosystem.And our complex web life of earth depends on careful or thoughtful decisions we make for the wildlife.On earth we mistakenly kill some animals we don’t want to, like we set up some traps for deers and other animals, but we accidentally kill a tiger, or a leopard which are not even meant to be killed.
Climate change
Climate change is one of the most severe issues for earth today.The impacts of climate change are felt around the world,Changes in rainfall, global warming, they all are affecting animals, this leads to species getting extinct.Sometimes they may be forced to move to an area where they may not find food or shelter, and go extinct.Loss of habitat can also be one of the reasons why an species is going to go extinct, or is vulnerable.Most of the species rely on their specific habitat food, like pandas like to eat bamboo, and they will not survive in a state that does not have the food that they require, and will starve to death.Migrating can also lead to genetic isolation, and it may lead to inbreeding as well.Climate change is also affecting the arctic ice which is slowly opening up, leading to many ships going through it and may affect the migration of marine animals, and even some animals which migrate in the arctic.The polar bear is having less habitats due to global warming, melting icebergs due to them having less habitat and food.
Solutions
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
We can help the climate by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This can be achieved by transitioning to renewable energy sources, using renewable energy sources.And promoting sustainable transport options.
- Protecting habitats
Another solution is that protecting the habitats of animals,we could do that by not deforesting their habitats, not allowing people to eat or visit their habitats, since they might get scared, for example what if suddenly someone barges in your home, you would be confused, terrified, and much more.Well that is how they feel when we go to visit them.We can also ensure that the species have access to their habitat and food to let them thrive.
- Restoring degraded habitats
We could achieve this by replanting or reproducing their habitats, and even if a few thousand are left they can breed and thrive.This will also help the species in adapting to new conditions.
- Supporting conservation efforts
We can help them by going to a few animal care farms, helping them in taking care of the animals, donating to animal charities, that way they can get more funding for their animal and help them better, we can also spread awareness using an online website which will have information, what we feel about animal endangerment, and how to prevent it from happeningñ
Pollution
All of the animals interact with land in a different way, if acid rain falls into a river which has deers living near it, if the deers drink it they may die due to the toxic rain affecting the water, this can also affect the colonies near which take water from that river, The fish can be affected by the water due to it breathing with gills, but other animals are affected by air, or sometimes drinking water which has acid mixed in it.This also affects the food chain since suppose a frog drinks acid and dies, and a frog consuming animal eats the frog see’s him and eats him the animal dies, the animal which eats that animal dies, and when it come to a human consuming animal, like a chicken the human eats it and he gets food poisoning.
What are Gorillas and where are they found?
Gorillas are herbivorous animals predominantly found in the tropical forests of Equatorial africa. Gorillas have 2 species which are known as the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas, and these 2 species are further divided into 4 subspecies known as mountain gorilla, western lowland gorilla, cross river gorilla and eastern lowland gorilla. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after Chimpanzees Gorillas are the largest living Primates reaching heights between 1.25 and 1.8 metres, weighing between 100 and 270 kg, and arm spans up to 2.6 metres, depending on their species. They tend to live in troops, with the leader being called a silverback . A silverback gorilla can be any of the 4 subspecies. The eastern gorilla is distinguished from the western by darker fur colour. Gorillas tend to live 35–40 years in the wild.
Gorillas’ natural habitats cover tropical or subtropical forest in Sub-Saharan Africa. The gorillas inhabit the Albertine Rift ranging in altitude from 2200 to 4300 metres. Gorillas can also be found in dense forests and lowlands swamps and marshes as low as sea level.
Mountain Gorillas
Mountain Gorillas is a subspecies of Eastern Gorillas. These are one of the only subspecies of gorilla species which are not critically endangered. They were critically endangered in 2008 with only 680 only in the wild but by 2023, we successfully had made them not critically endangered but normal endangered with 1800 mountain gorillas remaining in the wild. This animal was being poached for its meat, bushmeat for people though only the wealthy could afford eating this meat. Their Habitat was being destroyed and that is why they were endangered. These animals are also dying out because of harmful diseases and Mountain gorillas are also poached for its fur for jewellery which was sold at a high cost in the black market. These animals are herbivores who are friendly if not attacked but if attacked, Mountain Gorillas have the strength of a tiger.
Emergency Response
Western lowland gorillas
Western lowland gorillas are a subspecies of western gorillas. They can also be silverback western lowland gorillas. These Gorilla Subspecies are critically endangered even though there are 150,000 left in the wild. Their Population is decreasing really quickly day by day and by 2026, they would have only 500 remaining in the wild at the rate they are being poached. Again, they are poached for Bushmeat at a high cost and only the wealthy can afford it at a restaurant. They are also endangered due to habitat loss and diseases, These animals are peaceful in nature but if attacked, they could slotter a human in less than 1 minute
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Cross river Gorillas
Cross river Gorillas are a subspecies of western gorillas. This gorilla subspecies is critically endangered as there are only 270 remaining in the wild. These animals are endangered because they are poached for bushmeat and are being killed because of diseases. They were also dying because of habitat loss. These animals are too peaceful but can be ferocious if harmed.
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Eastern Lowland Gorilla
Eastern Lowland Gorillas are a subspecies of eastern gorillas. This gorilla subspecies is critically endangered with 6000 remaining in the wild. This gorilla’s numbers are going down quickly because of being poached for bushmeat and spreading of diseases. Their homes are being destroyed and they went down with it. These animals are peaceful too but dangerous if harmed.
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Why are they endangered
Currently, these animals' status are critically endangered due to habitat destruction which is caused due to deforestation, hunting and global warming. These animals are herbivorous and when trees are cut down, they face scarcity of food and eventually die. They are poached for Bushmeat trading which can only be afforded by wealthy people. These animals are also poached for their fur as it sometimes can be used in fashion which costs more. These animals also accidentally get poached by iron snares which are set in the forest in search for other bushmeat species such as hogs and elephants. They also die due to diseases such as Malaria, dengue, common cold e.t.c.
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White Rhinos
The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros(Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. found in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 16,803 wild-living animals, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females: Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29, both in captivity). Sudan, the world's last known male Northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018 at age 45
Southern White Rhino
Southern white Rhinos(Scientific name= Ceratotherium simum) found in South Africa, are one near to endangerment but not endangered or critically endangered because they were critically endangered but laws started to protect these animals and now, there are 20,00 left in the wild. This animal used to be poached for their horns as they were at high cost on the black market. It is still hard to see southern white Rhinos as they are agile and the horns can be dangerous
Why are Rhinos endangered?
Rhinos are killed by poachers for their horns, which are bought and sold on the black market at high prices, leading to most Rhino species being considerably endangered. The contemporary market for rhino horn is overwhelmingly overdriven by China and Vietnam, where it is bought by wealthy consumers to use in traditional Chinese medicine, among other uses. Rhino horns are made of keratin, the same material in hair and fingernails, and there are no health benefits. A market also exists for Rhino horn dagger handles in Yemen, which was in high demand from 1970 to 1980.
History and facts
History= Nobody knew about Rhinos apart from central, west, east, South Africans and Indonesians knew about Rhinos and did not know the name until the Explorer Peter Simon Pallas went to Africa and saw these horned creatures get them to England to examine them. Over there, they called it Rhinoceros(Horned Dinosaur).
Facts= Rhino’s sharp horns are useful because if a predator is attacking it, a rhino can charge and kill anything. This animal was called the Horned Dinosaur because scientists believe that Rhinos were there from the Cretacious period till today and managed to survive whatever killed the dinosaurs. They were also believed to Be in the same family as triceratops.