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Hello and welcome to the Harmonic Haven. I hope you enjoy the stay. Please check out the information given below 👇 Here is all the information about Nature I have put until now. This will be updated every time I send another information about Nature. Information about Nature Middlemist Red Camellia (Week 5) Information about Nature: Corpse Flower (Week 4) Information about Nature: Coral Trees (Week 3) Information about Nature (Day 2, Week 2 ) A Rare plant you will know on clicking this forum Information about Nature #Day1 - Glaciers Extra information below 👇 Here are some facts about Nature Hmm. Are you bored? Here is one of our special games. Click here (Spoiler: It's a test of your spiritual animal! Mines 🐺)

Hello and welcome to the hotel. You seem very exhausted today. You should probably go to your room. Enjoy the stay! Check out the information about the history of Disney in the meantime - The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923 as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, began to decline. In 1984, Disney's shareholders voted Michael Eisner as CEO, who led a reversal of the company's decline through a combination of international theme park expansion and the highly successful Disney Renaissance period of animation from 1989 to 1999. In 2005, under the new CEO Bob Iger, the company continued to expand into a major entertainment conglomerate with the acquisitions of Pixar in 2006, Marvel Entertainment in 2009, Lucasfilm in 2012, and 21st Century Fox in 2019. Disney is one of the biggest and best-known companies in the world. In 2023 it was ranked 87th on the 2023 Forbes Global 2000 and 48th of the Fortune 500 list of biggest companies in the United States by revenue. Since its founding, the company has won 135 Academy Awards, 26 of which were awarded to Walt. The company has been said to have produced some of the greatest films of all time, as well as revolutionizing the theme park industry.

Hello and welcome to the Cosmic castle. A small hotel for space fans! Enjoy your stay 😁. Here are some information about space in the meantime - Outer space refers to the areas between planets, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters and galaxy superclusters. There is little matter in outer space. It is a hard vacuum, without any air. This also makes it extremely cold. Space begins at the Kármán Line, which is about 62 miles above Earth. Importance of space - By venturing into space, scientists can utilize a multitude of instruments – such as probes, satellites, and state-of-the-art telescopes. They can gather data about celestial bodies and investigate the universe in its natural state. 10 facts about Space - 1) One million Earths could fit inside the Sun – and the Sun is considered an average-size star. 2) For years it was believed that Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. More recently, NASA revealed its strongest evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars, too! 3) Comets are leftovers from the creation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago – they consist of sand, ice and carbon dioxide. 4) You wouldn’t be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface! 5) If you could fly a plane to Pluto, the trip would take more than 800 years! 6) Space junk is any human-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists estimate there are about 500,000 pieces of space junk today, including fragments from rockets and satellites, and everyday items like spanners dropped during construction of the International Space Station! 7) An asteroid about the size of a car enters Earth’s atmosphere roughly once a year – but it burns up before it reaches us. Phew! 8) The highest mountain known to man is on an asteroid called Vesta. Measuring a whopping 22km in height, it is three times as tall as Mount Everest! 9) There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. That’s at least a billion trillion! 10) The sunset on Mars appears blue. Want daily space facts? Go here 

Inspired by turn-of-the-century National Park lodges, Disney's Wilderness Lodge celebrates American craftsmanship and honors the beauty of the untamed wilderness. Soak in the splendor of the great outdoors, from nature trails through pine forests to rocking chairs that overlook a murmuring creek.  

The school of nature develops psychophysical well-being as well as the ability to learn .The regenerating power of greenery improves concentration. OTHER STUDIES Green is good for you. The presence of trees and other urban elements, even a simple view of a park from home, has a significant effect on people's health. A few years ago, a Dutch research conducted on almost 350,000 people showed that living less than a kilometre from a green area is protective for many illnesses: from cardiovascular to respiratory diseases, from headaches to digestive disorders, to muscular pains and, above all, anxiety and depression.

Hey guys! I just logged in after 3 months to practice for an upcoming tournament and saw that this group is almost gone! No tournaments... nothing. So, we are proud to announce that now we will focus on the revival of this club, and aim at the awareness and widespread attention to the divine nature! We will host consistent tournaments and spread awareness about endangered plants and animals. If anyone has any doubts or wants to volunteer to help me with the same, they can message me in personal chat. Hope you all will support us and help us reach our goal of 100 members! 

The blue rose is a flower of the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) that has a blue/violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white or yellow. Blue roses are used to symbolise mystery, the impossible or unattainable, but above all peace, calm, magnanimity and commitment. The colour blue is very rare in nature, partly because there is no true blue pigment in the natural world. To appear this colour, molecules in both plants and animals have to perform tricks to make them appear blue to the human eye. The answer is that the so-called “blue roses” that you can buy cut in the shop, are nothing more than white roses dipped in a colouring solution, or simply sprayed with a blue-coloured spray.

Hi I am Aarish and today I will be giving information about the rarest flower in nature - The Middlemist Red camellia. The Middlemist Red camellia (/(Camelliajaponica) 'Middlemist's Red')/) is a rare flower that is considered one of the rarest flowers in the world. It is a deep pink color, not red, and is a cultivar of the common camellia.  How it got its name: John Middlemist collected the flower in China in 1804 and gave it to Kew Gardens.  The flower disappeared from Kew Gardens, but a descendant was found in the camellia collection at Chiswick House in 1823.  The flower is named after John Middlemist.  Where it can be found:  Chiswick House & Gardens: The Duke of Devonshire's conservatory in west London Treaty House: A garden in New Zealand How it looks:  The flowers grow on large evergreen shrubs that can grow up to 36 feet tall. The flowers can appear alone or in pairs and are 2.4-3.9 inches in diameter. Why is it so rare : The Middlemist's Red blooms better in an environment that provides light to partial shade, and they do well under the shade of tall trees. However, it was demised after being transported from China to England even after being in its local habitat, so the only answer that would make sense is that it was over cultivated. Hope you learnt something today. Also, if anyone can help me with sending information about nature everyday, please tell below 👇 

Middlemist Red Camellia A rare flower with deep pink blooms, with only two known plants in existence. It is originally from China.  Dendrophylax lindenii Also known as the Ghost Orchid, this rare flower is found in Florida and Cuba. It is known for its delicate beauty and elusive nature.  Stinking corpse lily Also known as the corpse flower or giant padma, this rare flower puts out a strong stench to attract pollinators.  Blue rose A rare flower with unique and rare shades of turquoise or blue. Scientists have yet to produce a truly blue-colored rose.  Purple passion flower A rare flowering vine known for its vibrant, otherworldly blooms. It is native to tropical regions and stands out with its vivid purple petals.  Black rose A flower that does not exist naturally, although plant developers have managed to darken the color on some selections. If you want me to tell me about any plants then tell below 👇

Hi everyone. I am Aarish and today our lesson is about Rafflesia arnoldii, or also known as corpse flower. Our lesson today might be more interesting than the information of other plants and animals I have sent before. Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, or giant padma, Its local name is Petimum Sikinlili. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. It is native to the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. Although there are some plants with larger flowering organs like the titan arum and talipot palm, those are technically clusters of many flowers. Rafflesia arnoldii is one of the three national flowers in Indonesia, the other two being the white jasmine and moon orchid. It was officially recognized as a national "rare flower" (Indonesian: puspa langka) in Presidential Decree No. 4 in 1993. The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps. He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on the Indonesian island of Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma. During the return voyage in 1798, his ship was taken by the British, with whom France was at war, and all his papers and notes were confiscated. Joseph Banks is said to have agitated for the return of the stolen documents, but apparently to no avail: they were lost, turned up for sale around 1860, went to the British Museum of Natural History, where they were promptly lost again. They did not see the light of day until 1954, when they were rediscovered at the Museum. To everyone's surprise, his notes and drawings indicate that he had found and studied the plants long before the British. It is thought quite possible the British purposely hid Deschamps' notes, to claim the 'glory' of 'discovery' for themselves. In 1818 the British surgeon Joseph Arnold collected a specimen of another Rafflesia species found by a Malay servant in a part of Sumatra, then a British colony called British Bencoolen (now Bengkulu), during an expedition run by the recently appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, Stamford Raffles. Arnold contracted a fever and died soon after the discovery, the preserved material being sent to Banks. Banks passed on the materials, and the honour to study them was given to Robert Brown. The British Museum's resident botanical artist Franz Bauer was commissioned to make illustrations of the new plants. Brown eventually gave a speech before the June 1820 meeting of the Linnean Society of London, where he first introduced the genus and its until then two species. Brown gave the generic name Rafflesia in honour of Raffles. Bauer completed his pictures some time in mid-1821, but the actual article on the subject continued to languish. William Jack, Arnold's successor in the Sumatran Bencoolen colony, recollected the plant and was the first to officially describe the new species under the name R. titan in 1820. Although Rafflesia is a vascular plant, it lacks any observable leaves, stems or even roots, and does not have chlorophyll. It lives as a holoparasite on vines of the genus Tetrastigma. Similar to fungi, individuals grow as a mass of thread-like strands of tissue completely embedded within and in intimate contact with surrounding host cells from which nutrients and water are obtained. It can only be seen outside the host plant when it is ready to reproduce; the only part of Rafflesia that is identifiable as distinctly plant-like are the flowers, though even these are unusual since they attain massive proportions, have a reddish-brown colouration, and stink of rotting flesh. According to Sandved, the flower opens with a hissing sound. The flower of Rafflesia arnoldii grows to a diameter of around one meter (3.3 feet), weighing up to 11 kilograms (24 lb). These flowers emerge from very large, cabbage-like, maroon or dark brown buds typically about 30 cm (12 in) wide, but the largest (and the largest flower bud ever recorded) found at Mount Sago, Sumatra in May 1956 was 43 cm (17 in) in diameter. Indonesian researchers often refer to the bud as a 'knop' (knob). Called a "monster flower", Rafflesia arnoldii produces the largest single bloom and can grow up to three feet (one meter) in diameter and weigh up to 15 pounds (6.8 kg). The plant is native to the rainforests of Malaysia and Indonesia. The flower of Rafflesia arnoldii grows to a diameter of around one meter (3.3 feet), weighing up to 11 kilograms (24 lb). These flowers emerge from very large, cabbage-like, maroon or dark brown buds typically about 30 cm (12 in) wide, but the largest (and the largest flower bud ever recorded) found at Mount Sago, Sumatra in May 1956 was 43 cm (17 in) in diameter. Indonesian researchers often refer to the bud as a 'knop' (knob). Called a "monster flower", Rafflesia arnoldii produces the largest single bloom and can grow up to three feet (one meter) in diameter and weigh up to 15 pounds (6.8 kg). The plant is native to the rainforests of Malaysia and Indonesia. The buds take many months to develop and the flower lasts for just a few days. The flowers are dioecious – either male or female, thus both flowers are needed for successful pollination. When Rafflesia is ready to reproduce, a tiny bud forms outside the root or stem of its host and develops over a period of a year. The cabbage-like head that develops eventually opens to reveal the flower. The stigmas or stamens are attached to a spiked disk inside the flower. A foul smell of rotting meat attracts flies and beetles. To pollinate successfully, the flies and/or beetles must visit both the male and female plants, in that order. The fruit produced are round berries filled with numerous minute seeds. The flies Drosophila colorata, Chrysomya megacephala and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis visit the late flowers. Black ants of the genus Euprenolepis may feed on the developing flower buds, perhaps killing them. It has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, but the conservation status of the Rafflesia arnoldii is currently of concern due to anthropogenic and biological factors. Anthropogenic factors contributing to the decline are primarily deforestation and harvesting; biological factors contributing to the decline include the plant's dioecious nature, limited population, and skewed sex ratio, with the majority of the flowers being male. However, ecotourism is thought to be a main threat to the species. At locations which are regularly visited by tourists the number of flower buds produced per year has decreased. I hope you enjoyed reading today's information. Got any more interesting information? Please tell below 👇

Hi. I am Aarish and today our lesson is about Coral trees , also known as Erythrina. Erythrina is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, with the larger species growing up to 30 m (98 ft) in height. These species are known for their large flowers with long and bright red or orange petals. Particularly in horticulture, the name coral tree is used as a collective term for these plants. Flame tree is another vernacular name, but may refer to a number of unrelated plants as well. Many species of Erythrina have bright red flowers, and this may be the origin of the common name. However, the growth of the branches can resemble the shape of sea coral. The cultivation of fruits , flowers and vegetables is called horticulture .   Many birds visit the nectar-rich Erythrina flowers. In the Neotropics, these are usually larger hummingbirds, for example the swallow-tailed hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) and the black-throated (Anthracothorax nigricollis) and green-breasted mangos (A. prevostii).   Bird sucking nectar Coral trees in Parks and gardens  The Neotropics is a biogeographic realm that includes Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It's known for its high biodiversity of plants, animals, and microscopic species.  Some coral trees are used widely in the tropics and subtropics as street and park trees, especially in drier areas. In some places, such as Venezuela, bucarés are used as shade trees for coffee or cocoa crops. Bucarés is a Spanish word that refers to a type of coral tree. Native Hawaiians made a number of items from wiliwili wood because of its low density, such as mouo (fishing net floats), ama (outrigger canoe floats, and extremely long papa heʻe nalu (surfboards) called olo. Olo, which averaged 18 feet (5.5 m), were exclusively ridden by aliʻi (royalty). The wood was sometimes used for the waʻa (hull) of outrigger canoes intended to be used near-shore, for recreation, or for training. The shiny orange-red seeds were strung into lei. The conspicuous, even dramatic coral trees are widely used as floral emblems. cockspur coral tree (E. crista-galli) is the national flower of Argentina and Uruguay. The coastal coral tree (E. afra) is the official city tree of Los Angeles, California, where it is referred to simply as the "coral tree". The state trees of Mérida and Trujillo in Venezuela are bucaré ceibo (E. poeppigiana) and purple coral tree (bucaré anauco, E. fusca), respectively. Yonabaru, Okinawa as well as the Okinawa Prefecture, Quanzhou, Fujian Province and Pathum Thani Province have the Indian coral tree (E. variegata) as floral emblems. Known as thong lang in Thailand, the latter species is also one of the thong ("trees") referred to in the name of Amphoe Chom Thong, Chiang Mai Province. In a similar vein, Zumpahuacán in Mexico derives its name from Nahuatl tzompahuacá, "place of the Erythrina americana". Growing, selling or possessing Erythrina spp. except for ornamental purposes, is prohibited by Louisiana State Act 159 (where the genus is misspelled Erythina); the Act covers various known, suspected, or rumored hallucinogenic plants. Substance that causes hallucinations (= the experience of seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that does not exist) is called hallucinogenic. Coral trees can be rare due to a number of factors, including deforestation, habitat loss, and the introduction of invasive species. Deforestation - The original forest where the coral tree was collected may have been destroyed by a cashew nut plantation. A Dutch company may have cleared the woodland to create a biofuel plantation. Many efforts are being made to save the different species of this particular rare plant. Can you suggest some ways to solve this problem? Please tell below 👇

 Hi guys. Aarish here. Our lesson today is about endangered animals. There is a lot of endangered animals on my list including Gharial (critically endangered) which lives in Nepal and northern India, Siamese Crocodile (critically endangered) lives in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, Amur Leopard (critically endangered) live in China, and the White-Spotted Izak (endangered) live in western Indian Ocean, but today we will be talking about the Cuban Crocodile, which is critically endangered. The benefits of this amazing creature is maintaining the integrity of this ecosystem. Sadly, there are only 2,400 Cuban Crocodiles left in the wild.          The Cuban Crocodile can reach lengths of up to 7.5 ft and weigh up to 80 kg. Cuban Crocodiles inhabit freshwater swamps and streams of the Zapata Swamp in inland Cuba. This species of crocodile has little range and is the most endangered crocodile in the world. Although this species lives in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, it spends most of its time on land, where it is a capable walker, runner, and jumper. Adult cuban crocodiles can eat birds, fish, other reptiles, and pretty much everything that can fit in its mouth. Cuban crocodiles can even become hybrids with Nile Crocodiles, American Crocodiles, Saltwater Crocodile, and Siamese Crocodiles. Cuban crocodiles are in decline, primarily because it has such a small and restricted habitat. Their main threat is humans, who have hunted the crocodile extensively and largely encroached upon their habitats. Humans hunt these crocodiles because of their skin. Some experts have estimated that the Cuban Crocodile population is 2,400 and reported that this species has declined by more than 80 percent! We can help Cuban Crocodiles by including protective laws that prevent the intentional killing or harming of the animals, and establishing national parks to protect the habitat of native wildlife and plants. Any solution you can think of to solve the problems? Well THINK and GIVE ANSWERS BELOW 👇 

Hi. Aarish here again. Today we will be learning about a rare plant. One of the rarest plants in the world is the Encephalartos Woodii which is now conserved and restricted to the botanical garden only where it was transported from Zululand. This plant is found in South Africa and is considered being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type. Encephalartos woodii, Wood's cycad, is a rare cycad in the genus Encephalartos, and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type. The specific and common name both honour John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden and director of the Natal Government Herbarium of South Africa, who discovered the plant in 1895. It is palm tree like, and can reach a height of 6 metres (20 ft). The trunk is about 30–50 centimetres (12–20 in) in diameter, thickest at the bottom, and topped by a crown of 50–150 leaves. The leaves are glossy and dark green, 150–250 centimetres (59–98 in) in length, and keeled with 70–150 leaflets, the leaflets falcate (sickle-shaped), 13–15 centimetres (5–6 in) long and 20–30 millimetres (0.8–1 in) broad. Wood Cycad (clones of E.woodii) A basal offset of the main stems was removed and sent to Kew Gardens in 1899. Three basal offsets were collected by Wood's deputy, James Wylie, in 1903 and planted in the Durban Botanic Gardens. One specimen was received at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Glasnevin in 1905 where the register records it as "Encephalartos way of E. Alten[steinii]" costing 1 guinea from Sander & Sons. In a 1907 expedition, Wylie collected two of the larger stems and noted that of the remaining two, one of them (the largest of the four original stems) was badly mutilated and he did not expect it to survive. By 1912 there was only one 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall trunk left in the wild, and in 1916, the Forestry Department arranged to have it removed and sent to the Government Botanist in Pretoria. It is thought that this trunk subsequently died in 1964. While extinct in the wild, Encephalartos woodii specimens are found in many botanical gardens, institutions and collections around the world, with an estimated 500 individuals in existence, all clones of the original specimen. For an Encephalartos cycad, E. woodii is relatively fast-growing and vigorous in cultivation. Two of the larger trunks that Wylie collected in the 1907 expedition are still to be seen in the Durban Botanic Gardens. A sucker from one of the Durban Botanic Gardens plants was sent to Kirstenbosch near Cape Town, South Africa in 1916 by James Wylie. The plant that was sent to Kew Gardens in 1899 was grown in the Palm House until April 1997 and then moved to the Temperate House where it produced, for the first time, a male cone in September 2004. Other European specimens include one housed at Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and one in Orto Botanico di Napoli in Italy, although this specimen may have died. The specimen in Ireland at Glasnevin is said to be "probably the tallest" specimen of E. woodii in Europe. In the United States, a specimen is housed in the conservatory at Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and three specimens are to be seen at Lotusland in Santa Barbara, California where they were planted in 1979. The specimen at Longwood Gardens was received in 1969 after a request was made to the Durban Botanic Gardens by one of Longwood's former directors, Dr. Russell Seibert, when he went on a plant exploration voyage to South Africa in the 1960s. The rooted plant was first taken to the Research Department at Longwood where the gardeners nurtured the plant until it was ready to be displayed in the Conservatory. The Longwood specimen produces cones in early winter. Despite numerous excursions in the oNgoye-Mtunzini area, no other specimens of Encephalartos woodii have ever been found. All known specimens of Encephalartos woodii are clones of the only known male plant which was completely removed from the wild. For these reasons, the plant is considered extinct in the wild. Various governments, companies, collaboration with other companies, governments and more are taking actions to find any clues to raise these rare spicies of plants again in the wild. Any ideas on this? Some answers you have or ideas you may have to help to raise these plants again? Please tell 👇 below 👇 Any cool facts about nature that you can remember? Please tell 👇 below 👇 Any ideas on how we can reach over 50 members and more in this club? Please tell 👇 below 👇 Any ideas on how we can contribute to save our Nature Earth? Any problems you want to raise? You are free to tell here in this club Until next time Have a great day 😊

1.Orcas are actually dolphins 2.Trees can fight back 3.Cows kill more people than sharks 4.Heat is the deadliest weather condition 5.Helium works against gravity 6.Bees dance to communicate 7.Earth once had two moons 8.There is water on the Moon 9.Goats have regional accents I bet you didn't know these facts. Know more cool facts? Please tell 👇 below 👇 

Hi guys. I am Aarish and our lesson today is about glaciers GLACIERS : A glacier is a huge block of ice that flows very slowly over land. Glaciers are formed in the North Pole and South Pole and in high mountains 🏔️. The cold climate and low temperatures in these areas help large amounts of ice to collect and turn into ice blocks. Glaciers begin to form when more snow falls during the winter months than it evaporates in the summer months. The snow builds up in layers and these layers get heavy because of their weight. Gradually, the ice becomes so thick that it begins to move because of its own weight and starts to move down the mountains 🏔️. This happens due to the Law of Gravity. As they move down the slopes of mountains they melt very slowly, getting heat from the Earth. As glaciers move downwards, they also change the shape of land they move on. Most glaciers flow extremely slow and move less than 30 centimetres a day. But some glaciers can flow up to 15 centimetres a day. The various parts of a glacier move at different speed. The central and upper part of a glacier flows the fastest. The sides and bottom move more slowly because they rub against the walls and floor of the valley. World's most famous glaciers are in Europe. They lie in the French and Swiss Alps. They are Mer de Glace and the Aletsch Glacier. Do you know any facts about glaciers? Please tell below 👇

Hi guys. Aarish here. I may have told in announcements that information about Animals won't be posted but my friend recently went in a zoo so, you will get information about the Orinoco crocodile. The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered crocodile. Its population is very small, and they can only be found in the Orinoco river basin in Venezuela and Colombia. Extensively hunted for their skins in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is one of the most endangered species of crocodiles. It is a very large species of crocodilian; males have been reported up to 6.8 m (22 ft 4 in) in the past, weighing over 900 kg (2,000 lb),[3] but such sizes do not exist today, 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) being a more widely accepted maximum size. A large male today may attain 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in) in length and can weigh up to 450 kg (1,000 lb), while females are substantially smaller with the largest likely to weigh around 225 kg (496 lb). Sexual dimorphism is not as profound as in other crocodilian species. The ecology of the Orinoco crocodile is poorly documented in the wild, mostly due to its small population. It is thought to have a more piscivorous diet with an opportunistic nature, resulting in generalist predatory behaviour. It is an apex predator and preys on a variety of birds, mammals and reptiles, including caimans on occasion. Its prey base is mostly large predatory fish, challenging the general view by locals complaining about crocodiles hunting local fish to very low numbers. Reproduction takes place in the dry season when the water level is low. It is a hole nester and digs holes in the sand for its clutch of eggs. The females guard the nests and young for several year. Hope you gain some new knowledge today. Here are some photos 👇 Here are the adults.

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Hello everyone. I am Aarish and I will be talking about the nilgiri tahr today The Nilgiri tahr is a stocky goat with short, coarse fur and a bristly mane. Males are larger than females and of darker colour when mature. The Nilgiri tahr is primarily threatened by habitat loss and disturbance caused by invasive species, and in some sites by livestock grazing, poaching and fragmentation of the landscape. The Nilgiri tahr can be found only in India. It inhabits the open montane grassland habitat of the South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion. At elevations from 1,200 to 2,600 m (3,900 to 8,500 ft), the forests open into large grasslands interspersed with pockets of stunted forests, locally known as sholas. These grassland habitats are surrounded by dense forests at the lower elevations. The Nilgiri tahrs formerly ranged over these grasslands in large herds, but hunting and poaching in the 19th century reduced their population. The Nilgiri tahr (scientific name- Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western and Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India. It is the only species in the genus Nilgiritragus and is closely related to the sheep of the genus Ovis. As few as 100 Nilgiri tahrs were left in the wild by the end of 20th century. Since that time, their numbers have increased somewhat; in a comprehensive study of the Nilgiri tahr population in Western Ghats, the WWF-India has put the population at 3,122. Their range extends over 400 km (250 mi) from north to south, and Eravikulam National Park is home to the largest population. From April 24–28, 2014, the number of animals in Eravikulam National Park has increased to 894 individuals. This is the highest ever count recorded in the national park, with the first census in 1996 finding only 640 tahrs. The other significant concentration is in the Nilgiri Hills, with smaller populations in the Anamalai Hills, Periyar National Park, Palani Hills, and other pockets in the Western Ghats south of Eravikulam, almost to India's southern tip. A small population of tahrs numbering around 200 is known to inhabit the Boothapandi, Azhakiyapandipuram, Velimalai, Kulasekaram, and Kaliyal Ranges in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu and another small herd of less than 30 animals is known to inhabit Ponmudi Hills in Trivandrum district of Kerala. Are there any other ways to stop these animals from going extinct? THINK and GIVE answers BELOW 👇

Hello everybody. It's Aarish again. Today I will be talking about the rare animal found in nature, Amur Leopards. The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is a leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of southeastern Russia and northern China. It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, as in 2007, only 19–26 wild leopards were estimated to survive in southeastern Russia and northeastern China. As of 2015, fewer than 60 individuals were estimated to survive in Russia and China. Camera-trapping surveys conducted between 2014 and 2015 revealed 92 individuals in an 8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi) large transboundary area along the Russian-Chinese border. Results of genetic research indicate that the Amur leopard is genetically close to leopards in northern China and Korea, suggesting that the leopard population in this region became fragmented in the early 20th century. The North Chinese leopard was formerly recognised as a distinct subspecies (P. p. japonensis), but was subsumed under the Amur leopard in 2017. Phylogenetic analysis of leopard samples from Primorsky Krai and North Korea revealed that they cannot be distinguished. It is considered very probable that the Amur leopard metapopulation became fragmented less than a century ago. Phylogenetic analysis of an old leopard skin from South Korea revealed it to be an Amur leopard. The Amur leopard is also known as the "Siberian leopard", "Far Eastern leopard", and "Korean leopard". Listed as 'Critically Endangered' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) since 1996, the Amur leopard suffered extensive population declines in the late 20th century as a result of poaching, habitat loss and degradation, prey depletion, and a number of consequential anthropogenic threats. What CAN WE DO to save these animals from EXTINCTION? HOW can WE solve this PROBLEM? Think and put your answers BELOW 👇 

Hello again, guys. Today I will be talking about Asiatic Lions. The Asiatic lion is a lion population of the subspecies Panthera leo leo. Until the 19th century, it occurred in Saudi Arabia, eastern Turkey, Iran, Mesopotamia, and from east of the Indus River in Pakistan to the Bengal region and the Narmada River in Central India. Since the turn of the 20th century, its range has been restricted to Gir National Park and the surrounding areas in the Indian state of Gujarat. Lions first left Africa at least 700,000 years ago, giving rise to the Eurasian Panthera fossilis which later evolved into Panthera spelaea (commonly known as the cave lion), which became extinct around 14,000 years ago. Genetic analysis of P. spelaea indicates that it represented a distinct species from the modern lion that diverged from them around 500,000 years ago and unrelated to modern Asian lions. Pleistocene fossils assigned as belonging or probably belonging to the modern lion have been reported from several sites in the Middle East, such as Shishan Marsh in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, dating to around 250,000 years ago, and Wezmeh Cave in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, dating to around 70-10,000 years ago In 1976, fossil lion remains were reported from Pleistocene deposits in West Bengal. A fossil carnassial excavated from Batadomba Cave indicates that lions inhabited Sri Lanka during the Late Pleistocene. This population may have become extinct around 39,000 years ago, before the arrival of humans in Sri Lanka. Genetic markers of 357 samples from captive and wild lions from Africa and India were examined. Results indicate four lineages of lion populations: one in Central and North Africa to Asia, one in Kenya, one in Southern Africa, and one in Southern and East Africa; the first wave of lion expansion probably occurred about 118,000 years ago from East Africa into West Asia, and the second wave in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene periods from Southern Africa towards East Africa. The Asiatic lion is genetically closer to North and West African lions than to the group comprising East and Southern African lions. The two groups probably diverged about 186,000–128,000 years ago. It is thought that the Asiatic lion remained connected to North and Central African lions until gene flow was interrupted due to extinction of lions in Western Eurasia and the Middle East during the Holocene. Asiatic lions are less genetically diverse than African lions, which may be the result of a founder effect in the recent history of the remnant population in the Gir Forest. Why are Asiatic Lions so rare? It is because the lions face the usual threats of poaching and habitat fragmentation. Three major roads and a railway track pass through the Gir Protected Area (PA). Also, there are three big temples inside the PA that attract large number of pilgrims, particularly during certain times of the year. What can WE DO to SOLVE this PROBLEM. Think and give solutions BELOW 👇