Wednesday, December 30, 2009

World’s biggest flying bird

Monday, December 28, 2009

Pygmy seahorse


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Genus: Hippocampus

Pygmy seahorse is also called as Bargibanti’s seahorse. The pygmy seahorse belongs to the family Syngnathidae. The seahorse is tiny and can grow up to a heath of about 2.4 cm. The sea horse is found in two different colors. They are grey with red tubercles and yellow with orange tubercles.

The pygmy seahorse is found in the coastal regions along the southern Japan and Indonesia to Northern Australia and New Caledonia. They are found at a depth of about 10 to 40 m.



The lower portion males abdomen has a brood pouch in which the females lay the eggs. The eggs are fertilized by the males and incubated until the birth.

There are nine species of pygmy seahorse:

  • Hippocampus bargibanti
  • Hippocampus colemani
  • Hippocampus debelius
  • Hippocampus denise
  • Hippocampus minotaur
  • Hippocampus pontohi
  • Hippocampus satomiae
  • Hippocampus severnsi
  • Hippocampus waleananus

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Abyssinian Ground-hornbill


Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Coraciiformes

Family: Bucerotidae

Subfamily: Bucorvinae

Genus: Bucorvus

Species: B. abyssinicus

These birds are in general seen alone or in petite family groups, on foot in a somewhat splendid method crosswise the landscape. They feed on little vertebrates, large insects and other invertebrates as glowing as fruit and seeds. Even though they are principally seen on the floor they are competent of voyage when worried. He birds of this variety are not simply fruit eaters; they also provide for on mice, lizards, snakes, geckos, and some insects. They construct their nests in crevice. Females of this kind are not sealed-in like birds of this type.