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Kamis, 02 Mei 2013

Monster Loch Ness dipuja oleh para kaum percaya, namun selalu terbantahkan oleh sains.

Ilustrasi penampakan monster Loch Ness.

Koran lokal Skotlandia membuat gaduh dunia ketika menampilkan kesaksian warga yang mengaku melihat "hewan besar berguling dan terjun di permukaan Danau Loch Ness" pada 2 Mei 1933. Kejadian pada 80 tahun lalu itu langsung jadi fenomena media.

Koran-koran di London sampai mengirimkan para korespondennya untuk mengulas kisah itu. Tidak ketinggalan, satu sirkus menawarkan sejumlah uang bagi siapa pun yang bisa menangkap si monster hidup-hidup.

Para pakar peneliti monster Loch Ness menemukan selusin referensi dengan nama "Nessie" di sejarah Skotlandia. Acuan yang berasal dari tahun 500 Masehi ini menyebut adanya ukiran makhluk air misterius di batu sekitar Loch Ness.

Selasa, 02 April 2013

Di Papua dan Papua Nugini, kura-kura moncong babi diketahui hidup di beberapa sungai besar di bagian selatan.

Kura-kura moncong babi (Carettochelys insculpta)

Kelestarian spesies langka, kura-kura moncong babi (Carettochelys insculpta), untuk sementara terselamatkan. Berkat penggagalan penyelundupan 687 kura-kura moncong babi di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta, Jakarta, Senin (1/4) lalu.

Diduga, spesies yang berasal dari Papua ini akan diselundupkan ke luar negeri. Usaha ilegal ini terkuak setelah paket yang membungkus kura-kura ini pecah.

Rabu, 12 Desember 2012

A scarab beetle in the understory of the San Lorenzo forest.

Though birds, trees, and orchids call the tropical rain forest home, they are immensely outnumbered by tiny arthropods, such as insects, spiders and millipedes. In the past, scientists had trouble estimating how many arthropods exist in the vastness of a forest. But thanks to new methods of sampling and analysis, researchers now think that over 25,000 different species of arthropods live in just one forest.

These findings are part of Project IBISCA-Panama, an extensive survey of arthropods in Panama's San Lorenzo forest supported by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The study, published in this week's issue of Science, revealed that an estimated 25,000 species of arthropods exist in the 6,000-hectare forest. By tallying these small organisms, researchers hope to get a better grasp of their many roles in the rain forest ecosystem.

Selasa, 17 Juli 2012

Topeng monyet yang selama ini dikenal masyarakat sebagai sebuah atraksi menghibur, ternyata merupakan bentuk kekerasan terhadap satwa. Topeng monyet bahkan berpotensi untuk meningkatkan kepunahan jenis satwa di Indonesia.

Hal ini mengemukaan dalam diskusi "Stop Kekerasan Terhadap Satwa dengan Pasal 302 KUHP", di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Senin (16/7). Koordinator Satwa Liar dari Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) Benvika mengatakan, sejak tahun 2009, ada peningkatan aduan dari masyarakat mengenai kekerasan terhadap monyet dalam atraksi topeng monyet.

Setiap harinya, ada sekitar 15-20 aduan dari masyarakat yang melaporkan bahwa monyet dilatih dengan tidak benar. Tangannya diikat ke belakang, dipaksa duduk berjam-jam di jalan, dan tidak diberi makan.

“Meski monyet masuk dalam daftar satwa apendix 2 yakni harus memiliki sertifikasi legal ketika keluar dari penangkaran, perlakuannya tetap harus sesuai prosedur. Selama ini, atraksi topeng monyet cenderung sembarangan dalam memperlakukan monyet-monyet tersebut,” kata Benvika.

Minggu, 15 Juli 2012

Jago menyelam tetapi kikuk saat mendarat, induk penyayang namun tetangga yang galak--burung gannet utara berlimpah kontradiksi. Lama terikat dengan budaya maritim, burung ini sekarang berkembang biak pesat di sejumlah koloni yang padat di sekitar Atlantik Utara.

Lima belas meter di atas Laut Utara yang kerap dilanda badai, sekelompok burung melayang bersama. Saat hujan deras tiba, burung tersebut turun secepat kilat. Mereka menukik, sekelompok burung berbentuk trisula putih, menghunjam ke dalam ombak dengan hantaman dan deburan keras. Beberapa saat kemudian mereka mengambang ke permukaan air, dengan ikan di dalam tenggorokannya. Mereka mengguncang kepala, menyeruak dari dalam air dengan sayap sepanjang dua meter, dan menjulang ke sarang di sisi tebing. Mereka mendarat dengan kikuk dan bertengkar dengan nyaring.

Senin, 27 Februari 2012

Assalamualaikum gan, apa kabar semua ? Semoga tetap dalam keadaan baik baik saja yah meskipun dalam keadaan berpuasa bagi anda yang muslim yang menjalankannya. Nah gan udah lama nih gak bicarain tentang Fauna asli Indonesia. Kali ini kita akan bahas dan dijamin agan-agan pasti gemes membahas lebih jauh dengan jenis hewan ini. Ya...kali ini kita bakal ngebahas tentang Anjing Kintamani yang merupakan ras anjing (dog breed) yang asli berasal dari Indonesia dan telah diakui oleh dunia Internasional sebagai salah satu anjing ras dunia sejak tahun 1994. Mari kita bahas lebih jauh.

Minggu, 23 Oktober 2011

Benarkah hewan buas juga mempunyai loyalitas & ingatan terhadap majikannya?? kelihatannya iya. Pada tahun 70-an, seekor singa bernama Christian berhasil menggemparkan dunia dengan kisahnya. Kejadian ini nyata membuktikan bahwa seekor singa juga mempunyai perasaan yang sama seperti manusia. Mereka juga mempunyai memori, kasih sayang, cinta, rasa rindu & kesetiaan.

Kisah ini mengajak kita untuk lebih menghargai arti dari persahabatan yang sesungguhnya.

Jumat, 14 Oktober 2011

Orang banyak menyebutnya kerabat dinosourus dari Timor. Dulu bahkan ada yang mengira sebagai naga raksasa yang menyeramkan. Bukan sekedar dongeng atau mitos, inilah bukti kebenarannya. Komodo, satu-satunya warisan dan saksi purbakala yang masih bertahan hingga kini hanya dapat dijumpai di Taman Nasional Komodo, yang terletak di sebuah selat antara Pulau Flores di Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) dan Sumbawa di Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB).

Selasa, 23 Agustus 2011

King Cobra
King cobras avoid humans, but when cornered they can deliver enough venom in their bite to kill 20 people. They can also move forward while looking a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) person in the eye, a third of their body raised up off the ground. Found in India, southern China, and Southeast Asia, king cobras are the only snakes in the world to build nests for their eggs.

Green Anaconda

Awkward on land but agile in water, the anaconda lives in the swamps and tropical rain forests of South America. This green anaconda is the largest of several varieties; in fact, it is the largest snake in the world by weight, capable of reaching 550 pounds (250 kilograms) and measuring 12 inches (30 centimeters) in diameter. With flexible jaws and muscular bodies, these nonvenomous constrictors squeeze their prey to death and swallow it whole—whether it’s a bird, a wild pig, or a jaguar.

Desert Death Adder

Often colored in rusts and yellows to match its sand and rock surroundings, the desert death adder of western Australia lures prey by wiggling its thin black tail tip. When a lizard approaches, the snake strikes, delivering powerful venom. Australia is home to 17 of the world's most venomous snakes, including the death adder. Even so, snakes only cause one or two deaths a year there.

The beautifully colored Burmese python is a solitary animal, seen with other snakes only during the spring mating season.
Photograph by Joe McDonald/Animals Animals—Earth Scenes

Burmese pythons, with their beautifully patterned skin, rapid growth rate, and generally docile disposition, may be best known as the large snake of choice among reptile owners. Unfortunately these potentially huge constrictors are often poorly cared for and are frequently released into the wild. Attacks on handlers, sometimes deadly, are not uncommon.

Sabtu, 20 Agustus 2011

Fanged Frog
Boasting "crazy" evolutionary adaptations, a new group of so-called fanged frogs—cousins of this Luzon fanged frog (file picture)—has been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, according to biologist Ben Evans.
During a recent expedition, 13 new "fanged" species were seen on Sulawesi for the first time, 9 of them new to science, according to a new study led by Evans, a biologist at McMaster University in Canada. The "fangs" aren't teeth but bony jaw protrusions—some of which aren't visible past the gumline, said Evans, whose study was published in the August issue of the journal The American Naturalist.
Scientists have yet to discover the fangs' purpose, but one possibility is that the frogs use the spikes to help capture food in fast-moving water. The frogs with the largest fangs seem to prey on fish or tadpoles.

Protective Parent

An as yet unnamed new fanged-frog species on Sulawesi watches over eggs containing tiny tadpoles. When Sulawesi fanged frogs first arrived on the island millions of years ago, each species evolved similar adaptations—such as guarding eggs laid on leaves. "We're seeing repeated incidences of the same adaptation [that] evolved independently," Evans said. "People think with evolution you could run the 'experiment' again and get a different result." The fanged frogs' evolution seems to suggest otherwise.

Sabtu, 30 Juli 2011

Marcgravia evenia has leaves that act like satellite dishes.
Photograph courtesy Corinna U. Koch

A Cuban plant that depends on bat pollination evolved a special leaf that acts like a satellite dish for bats' sonar, new research says.
It's the first time such a feature has been discovered in plants, which mostly rely on flashy colors to attract pollinating insects. But hundreds of plant species use bats to pollinate, and researchers are still teasing out how the flying mammals home in on the plants. In the lab, scientists noticed that Pallas's long-tongued bats excelled at finding hollow hemisphere shapes hidden among artificial leaves.
Study co-author Ralph Simon of Germany's University of Ulm then saw a picture of a Cuban plant called Marcgravia evenia. He "noticed the dish-shaped leaf above the flower, and thought, Wow, that's like a hemisphere ... that must be a signal for bats."
Study co-author Marc Holdereid of the U.K.'s University of Bristol added, "We didn't even know this plant was bat-pollinated at the time."

Kamis, 28 Juli 2011

A streamlined torpedo shape helps flying fish generate enough speed to break the water’s surface, and large, wing-like pectoral fins help get them airborne.
Photograph by Peter Parks/Animals Animals-Earth Scenes

Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like pectoral fins get them airborne. Flying fish are thought to have evolved this remarkable gliding ability to escape predators, of which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish. For their sustenance, flying fish feed on a variety of foods, including plankton.

Jumat, 22 Juli 2011

The tiny Tornatellides boeningi snail (file picture) lives in Japan.

Tiny snails can survive being eaten by birds—and the gastropods come out the other end perfectly healthy, a recent study says.
Researchers studying feces of wild Japanese white-eye birds had noticed a surprising number of intact snail shells, especially of Tornatellides boeningi. This 0.1-inch (0.25-centimeter) snail is common to Hahajima Island (see map), about 620 miles (a thousand kilometers) south of Tokyo.
So Shinichiro Wada, a graduate student at Tohoku University in Japan, and colleagues fed more than a hundred snails to captive white-eyes and 55 to captive brown-eared bulbuls, another bird known to eat T. boeningi.
The team found that roughly 15 percent of the snails passed through both bird species' guts alive. One snail even gave birth shortly after emerging—apparently unfazed by its incredible journey.

Kamis, 14 Juli 2011

A coelacanth near South Africa's Sodwana Bay

Not only is the coelacanth one of the world's oldest fish species, but the individual fish may also be long-lived.
A new study suggests the ancient fish can live up to a hundred years and even longer.
Until 1938, when a coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was found off Africa's coast, scientists had believed the fish went extinct 65 million years ago with a related lineage of prehistoric fishes.

After the coelacanth's rediscovery, a number of populations were uncovered in parts of the western Indian Ocean and in the western Pacific Ocean. Whether these populations were interconnected was a mystery.
"People kept catching these fish, but that didn't tell us anything about their population, how numerous they were, or if they were maybe simply strays from different parts of the ocean," said study leader Hans Fricke, an ethologist—or expert in animal behavior—formerly of the Max Planck Institute in Bremen, Germany.

Kamis, 16 Juni 2011

Plenty of Fish
You could call it a whale of a "swarm"—the biggest observed gathering of whale sharks was spotted off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula (see map) in 2009, according to a recent study. Snapped from a small plane, the above picture shows a white boat (bottom right) amid the fishy gathering.
Usually the oceans' biggest fish—which reach lengths of up to 40 feet (12 meters)—stick to themselves as they cruise the world's tropical waters looking for plankton and other small prey.
But aerial & surface surveys spotted at least 420 of the sharks rubbing fins as they gorged on eggs freshly spawned by little tunny fish, a relative of the mackerel.

"To see a group of that many all in one place was phenomenal—to the point where you couldn't navigate a boat through that without having concern for the fish. That's impressive," said study co-author Mike Maslanka, head of the Nutrition Science Department at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia.

Other organizations that contributed to the study include the Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas in Cancún, Mexico; the Center for Shark Research in Sarasota, Florida; the Mexico-based conservation group Project Domino; and Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium.
"It doesn't go understated that they're not small animals," added Maslanka, whose study was published in April in the journal PLoS ONE. "You don't realize how big they are until you're swimming beside them or you pull a boat up next to them."

Minggu, 12 Juni 2011

A picture of an endangered Asian crested ibis soaring over China is a first-prize winner in the first annual World's Rarest Birds international photo competition, organizers announced in January.
Launched in 2010, the competition ranked pictures of birds that fall into three categories determined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: endangered or data deficient, critically endangered or extinct in the wild, and critically endangered migratory species.

Sabtu, 11 Juni 2011

Klasifikasi Ilmiah Bunga Allamanda
Kingdom : Plantae
Phylum : Basidiomycota
Class : Magnoliopsida
Ordo : Apocynales
Famili : Apocynaceae
Genus : Allamanda
Species : Allamanda cathartica
Nama Binomial : Pleurotus ostreatus

Rabu, 01 Juni 2011

Do you hear a lot about the Ocelot? Hunted for its pelt for hundreds of years, the Ocelot was classified as a vulnerable endangered species until 1996. One look at this still rare animal and the attraction is undeniable but why is it no longer considered endangered?

At one point it was thought that this magnificent animal would become extinct in the wild before the twenty first century. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) placed it on its vulnerable list (known as VU) but since 1996 it has been considered no longer at risk in the wild Ranging from South and Central America up to Mexico – it has even been spotted in Texas. However, this being said, many are still extremely concerned for the future of this gorgeous animal in the wild.

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Sabtu, 14 Mei 2011

Manusia sejak dulu suka ke kebun binatang. Tapi kebun binatang gak selamanya bagus buat binatang.
Hei, kalian semua tau kan film Madagascar 2 : Escape to Africa. Film itu kan nyeritain binatang yang ada di kebun binatang & para binatang itu sering merasa stress berada di kebun binatang sehingga memutuskan untuk kabur. Nah, gimana sih kebun binatang yang sebenarnya? Ini dia beberapa fakta tentang kebun binatang. Simak broo!!