Week of 11/12 to 11/16: Forest REPTILeS, mammals and plants

11/12/2018

Week of 11/12 to 11/16: Forest REPTILeS, mammals and plants

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basilisk lizard

Found in tropical rainforests
Throughout Central America and in northwestern South America

danger noodles

Forest Reptiles and Amphibians: https://kids.mongabay.com

predators

Tigers: Found in Siberian taiga. Tigers occupy a variety of habitats from tropical forests, evergreen forests, woodlands and mangrove swamps to grasslands, savannah and rocky country. They live primarily in eastern Russia's birch forests, though some exist in China and North Korea.

https://sibexpeditions.com/what-is-siberia/

The population of Siberia just 22.5 million people. It is the most sparsely populated country in the world, except Antarctica.
Trans-Siberian Mainline and Baikal-Amur Mainline are the longest railways in the world.
The Siberian taiga is the largest forest on the planet Earth. It is several times larger than even the Amazon jungle.
Siberian Lake Baikal contains 20% of world reserves of fresh water on the planet Earth, and is the deepest lake in the world (1642 m).

leopards

Snow leopards live in the mountains of Central Asia
Leopards are found throughout most of Africa and Asia from the middle east to the Soviet Union, Korea, China, India, and Malaysia.
Leopards live in a variety of habitats including forests, mountains, grassland and deserts.
habitata: https://peerj.com/articles/1974/

Cloud Leopard

Snow Leopard

Armur Leopard

There is a whole world of predator cats, more information here:

https://www.felineworlds.com/leopard-habitat-and-distribution/

canines

Wolf: native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America.

foxes

mustelids

Mustelidae are a family of carnivorous mammals
Weasels, badgers, otters, martens, mink, and wolverines, among others.

Less carnivorous animals

Primates

Most primates are omnivores, they mainly eat insects as meat
There are strepsirrhines and haplorhines, wet nose and dry nose
Strepsirrhines: wet nose, lemurs of Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and southeast Asia
Haplorhines: dry nose, suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians
- simians include catarrhines, and the platyrrhines
- platyrrhine means flat-nosed, while catarrhine means hook-nosed

Lemur:

Ring-tailed Lemur: howstuffworks.com/

Madagascar:

Bush Baby:

Bush babies are found throughout East Africa
In woodlands and bushlands in sub-Saharan Africa.

Potto:

nocturnal tree dweller
found in rainforests from Sierra Leone eastward to Uganda
eat insects

Loris:

haplorhines

suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians

simians include catarrhines, and the platyrrhines
platyrrhine means flat-nosed, while catarrhine means hook-nosed

Simians: are monkeys and apes
- Platyrrhines: New World monkeys
  - five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Central and South America and Mexico: Tamarin, Spider Monkeys, Capuchin
- Catarrhine: Old World monkeys and apes
  - gibbons, great apes, and humans
  - distinguished by having nostrils that are close together and directed downward

simians

gorilla Nest

great apes

rodents

Capybara

largest rodent in the world
over 80 pounds
Capybaras are semi-aquatic, spending a lot of time in the water.
They inhabit southern Central America and northern South America in both savannas and rain forests near ponds, rivers, or lakes