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knowing animal characters really matters: Animal sciences not only is it achieved from Class-trainnings but so too by exposition and vistings to the Animal habitats especially in protected areas where a person can spend as many days as he/she wishes, surveying different kinds of Frola &Fauna. knowing how Animals survive, their influence to their environments as well as their relationship with human beings.
VERVET MONKEY: A single young is born after a gestation period of 140 days. A vervet is born at a more advanced stage and grows up faster than most other monkeys. Weaning starts at three months.
FIELD CHARACTERISTICS:
It has the length of 1,1m: males weighs 6kg, female 4kg. they have grey with black face, feet and tailtip; white eyebrow. Adult males have vividly coloured genitals, cred penny, blue scrotum. their sounds varry from soft grunts and chutters to a distinctive alarm back
FOOD&FEEDING METHOUDS: They're omnivorous. fruits, flowers, leaves, insects and all other foods that a human being can eat. colour vision and odour allow recognition of ripe from unripen fruits.
the hyaena has powerful jaws and teeth for crushing bones. the spotted hyaena is an efficient hunter, capable of bringing down a prey as large as gemsbok after a high speed hunt that may cover distances of up to 3kms
. Male lio
male lions form coalitions which co-operate in defending their pride, there's no dominant male within a pride
during the oestrus period of a lioness, which lasts about 5days, she'll mate with a male about once every 20min.
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Lions, unlike other carnivores are highly social
THE HYAENA: the hyaena has powerful jaws and teeth for crushing bones. the spotted hyaena is an efficient hunter, capable of bringing down a prey as large as gemsbok after a high speed hunt that may cover distances of up to 3kms
CHEETAHS: Like all large cats, the cheetah usually kills its prey by suffocating, after a short but exploisive chase.
they frequently use trees as vantage points to look for prey.
THE LEOPARD: The leopard avoids losing its kill to other carvivores by draging carcases into trees.
THE ELEPHANT:The elephant's trunk has a variety of uses. breaking up branches and plucking grass for feeding, sucking up water for drinking or spraying over the body for cooling.
Elephants usually drink every day, as with almost everything that a family group does, Quenching thirsity is a social event with all members of the herd moving together to the water point and drinking together. A single elephant will quaff up to 200 Litres of water in one season.
An elephant herd is led by a female usually the oldest in the group. she's known as 'Matriarch' plays an important role in caring for the herd. The african Elephant lives in family groups averaging about 11 individuals that often join with other family groups to form large herds. communication is largely through low, rumbling sounds which are inaudibe to the human ear.
HIPPOPOTAMUS: Hippos are social during the day, with surbodinate animals forming a close knit group within the territory of a dominant animal. in the middle of the day, during cold weather, they frequently sun-bathe on river banks.
they're sometimes forced to concetrate in the remaining pools when water dries.
The wide open Jaws of the Ingurube are aformidable sight. the lower jaw of this Animal bears large recurved canines and straight Incisors, and these are frighteningly effective when the need for self-protection arises.
THE GIRRAFFEE: Despite the large size, the girraffe is a highly selective feeder, using its long tongue, and elongated muzzle to crop flowers, fruits and young shoots in large quantities.
Graffes bleed all year around. the adult males continually moves from a group to group to check on the reproductive status of females by testing the hormone levels in their pee..
THE BUFFALO:They're fairly stable units, usually numbering several hundred, these units may however, fragment during times of draught.
The buffalo is a bulk grazer, and is responsible for opening areas of tall grass for other species which prefer more open habitant.
