Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Picture from www.bbc.co.uk
Sumatran tigers are especially well represented in zoos around the world, most of which participate in sophisticated global conservation breeding programs. More than 270 Sumatran tigers are now documented in formal studbooks and are involved in captive breeding programs aimed at preserving their genetic uniqueness. This captive population ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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Wild Sumatran tigers have survived within the isolated and somewhat continuous political environment of the Island of Sumatra. This has afforded researchers, such as The Sumatran Tiger Project team, an opportunity to study these animals' genetic status in their natural habitat over an extended period of time. As ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Picture from www.worldwildlife.org
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is the smallest of the remaining five tiger subspecies. It has lived exclusively, for over a million years, in the once extensive moist tropical jungles of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The Sumatran tiger is only found in Sumatra, a large island ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Sperm Whale (Physeter Catodon)
This large whale weighs an average of 40 tonnes, and can reach weights of 50 tonnes. Large males can grow to 20 metres in length, and females only 12 metres. The females weigh on average one third of what the male whale weighs.
They have a large box ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Long-Beaked Echidna (Zaglossus Bruijni)
The echidnas and the duck-billed platypus differ from all other mammals in that they lay shell-covered eggs that are incubated and hatched outside of the body of the mother. A female long-beaked echidna usually lays 1 egg into its pouch. The eggs of the long-beaked echidna are ...
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