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Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris) stares thoughtfully into space, perhaps dreaming of a small, tasty visitor climbing over the railing and swimming across the moat to pet him on the head. Yummmy! Native to India, Burma and the Himalaya, this fellow's roar can be heard up to two miles away. In the wild, their diet consists of
wild boars, monkeys, buffalo, wild oxen, deer and lawyers. |
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Pink Flamingo (Phoenicoptorus ruber) has just finished feeding on algae and various insects in the water that are high in alpha and beta carotenoid pigments and impart their hue to these regal birds. Flamingos inhabit tropical and subtropical areas and are very social creatures. Small colonies are rare and those containing tens of thousands are common. Like many of my relatives, these critters spend the majority of their lives feeding, preening, resting and bathing. |
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A White Hand Gibbon (Hylobates lar) poses for the camera. These fellows inhabit the tropical rainforests of southern and S.E. Asia. They live in the upper canopy, rarely descending to the forest floor. Their diet consists of ripe fruit, leaves, buds and the occasional dry martini. They are monogamus and live in small family groups and produce one youngster every two years or so. |
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Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus) smiles for the camera. The name comes from the fact that Indians in Colombia use the toxic skin secretions from three especially toxic species to coat the tips of their deadly blow darts. Their natural diet consists of ants, termites and tiny beetles that are the source of their toxic skin secretions that protect them from their preditors. In captivity, they are non-toxic as they are fed flies and baby crickets. This particular species is only found in the
Sipaliwini savanna of southern Suriname.
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