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Maned wolf – rare animal
A wolf with a mane that adorns its neck and shoulders and resembles not so much the mane of a lion as much as a horse is a real decoration of the animal world. This predator lives in South America – for the most part in the savannas, but it is also found in the pampas, in the high grass of the marshes, which are many in the territories of Northern Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil. This wild animal is very similar to a huge fox: it has a bright red hair, the same sly elongated muzzle, high ears. The wolf is light, lean: about one and a half meters long, as tall as a small dog – seventy, seventy-five centimeters at the withers, and weighs not so much as wolves of the northern hemisphere – only about twenty kilograms.
His legs are excellent, extremely long, which helps this rare animal to look out for prey, hiding in the grass of the swamp or savanna, and it is always very high there. Only here such “photo-model” legs do not help him to run fast and long. Continue reading
10 interesting facts about turtles
1. Turtles – the oldest of the modern reptiles. It is believed that they originated directly from the ancestors of all reptiles, cotilosaurs, almost 300 million years ago. Found a huge amount of fossil turtles, the largest of which was miolaniya, about 5 m long with a huge tail, spiky-seated, and long horns on the head. Continue reading
Nomadic wolverine
Wolverine, of course, is larger than sable. She weighs ten pounds, sometimes even fifteen or eighteen, and the length of her body is almost a meter. But what is this weight and what is this size compared to a bear! However, the wolverine is a dangerous animal: the same bear is afraid to cross the road, and gives away its prey almost implicitly, leaving the enemy’s bridgehead without a fight. Externally, wolverine is like a badger and even a little bit like the bear itself – only a small one. This animal does not differ by special grace in movements, grace and flexibility. She does not look like the rest of the martens of her family at all, so almost all of them are beauties. Continue reading