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By Graeme on Thursday, January 15 2009 (14:48) - About us
Giant Panda
By Graeme on Thursday, January 15 2009 (14:07) - Animals
The Giant Panda is a mammal classified in the bear family, native to central-western and southwestern China.
It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
Though belonging to the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. It may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available.
The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. It once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict the Giant Panda to the mountains.
The Giant Panda is an endangered species and highly threatened. According to the latest report, China has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27 living outside the country. It also estimated that around 1 590 pandas are currently living in the wild.
Giant Panda distribution map :
Source : Wikipedia
Baobab
By Graeme on Wednesday, September 17 2008 (17:41) - Plants
Baobab is the common name of a genus (Adansonia) containing eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (having six species), mainland Africa and Australia (one species in each).
The species reach heights of 5–30 m and trunk diameters of 7-11 m. A specimen in Limpopo Province, South Africa, often considered the largest and oldest example alive, has a circumference of 50 m and an average diameter of 15 m, and coul be about 2 200 years old.
Adansonia grandidieri (Grandidier's Baobab), the most famous of Madagascar’s six baobabs, is an endangered species. It is endemic to Madagascar.
Baobabs store water inside the swollen trunk (up to 120 000 liters) to endure the harsh drought conditions particular to each region.
Source : Wikipedia
Mount Etna
By Graeme on Monday, September 15 2008 (15:02) - Volcano
Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, south of Italy. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing 3 329 m high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21 m lower now than it was in 1981. Etna covers an area of 1 190 km² with a basal circumference of 140 km. This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius, wich is near Naples.
Very large image :
Very large image :
Map of Mount Etna :
Agrandir le plan
Source : Wikipedia
Addax
By Graeme on Friday, September 5 2008 (11:33) - Animals
The Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also known as the screwhorn antelope, is a critically endangered desert antelope that lives in several isolated regions in the Sahara desert. This species of the antelope family is closely related to the oryx, but differs from other antelopes by having large square teeth like a cattle and lacking the typical facial glands. Although extremely rare in its native habitat, it is quite common in captivity and is regularly bred on ranches where they are hunted as trophies. There are fewer than 500 addax left in wild, with fewer than 860 in captivity.
In ancient times, Addax spread from Northern Africa through Arabia and Palestine. Pictures from Egyptian tombs show them being kept as domesticated animals in around 2500 BC. More recently, Addax were found from Algeria to Sudan but due to several reasons, they have become much more restricted and rare. The population became critically endangered from both destruction of their habitat for commercial projects and hunting for horns or use as leather. Since the addax are slow by comparison with other antelopes, and are known to ride themselves to death, they have been an easy target for mounted hunters.
Addax live in desert terrain where they eat grass, and leaves of what bushes are available. They are amply suited to live in the deep desert under extreme conditions. Addax can survive without free water almost indefinately, because they get moisture from their food and dew that condenses on plants. Addax are nocturnal: they rest during the day in depressions they dig for themselves.
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