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The acacia pied barbet (Tricholaema leucomelas) is a bird species from the family Lybiidae that is found living in savannas, fynbos, grasslands, and agricultural areas as well as open gardens. They are found mainly in Swaziland, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The acacia pied barbet range is found in alien vegetationAcacia pied barbet (Tricholaema leucomelas) birds are like other barbets. They also act like a woodpecker because they drill holes in deadwood or into dead trees to create holes into which they place their eggs....

Banded horntails are wasps that are found worldwide but are endemic to California, Washington, and Georgia in the USA. They are also called wood wasps, horntail wasps, and greater horntails. These insects appear to be quite menacing because of their black-colored body with a dark brown exoskeleton. They have six yellow-colored jointed appendages and two yellow antennae. The female wasp is larger than the males and has a long ovipositor at the tip of its abdomen....

Bigeye threshers (Alopias superciliosus) are members of the family Alopiidae similar to Pelagic thresher and are found in the habitat of tropical and temperate oceanic and coastal waters worldwide. It includes three species: Vulpinus, Pelagicus, and Superciliocus. Bigeye threshers have a big head, and large eyes that are adapted to hunting under low light conditions, and its large upper lobe of the upper caudal tail fin accounts for nearly half its length....

The Caracal is a wild cat belonging to the class Mammalia (mammal) that is native to parts of the Middle East, India, and Central Asia, and Africa. It is a medium-sized cat that is characterized by its short face, strong build, and long black tufted ears, with long legs. They have a reddish or sand-colored fur that helps in camouflaging them in the wild when it hunts for prey. They are opportunistic hunters and hunt whatever they find, from small animals like mongoose to large animals like deers....

The Chinstrap Penguin is a marine animal that is also known as the ringed penguin, bearded penguin, or stone cracker penguin. The chinstrap penguin’s scientific name is Pygoscelis antarcticus, and it is sometimes referred to as P. antarctica, an early scientific name for the species. Its family name is Spheniscidae and it belongs to the Aves class.Among 18 different penguin species, the Pygoscelis family comprises three identical penguins known as brush-tailed penguins....

The common tiger or Danaus genutia is a very common butterfly in the Indian subcontinent. Their body pattern is very similar to the pattern of Indian tigers. Therefore, they are known as common tiger butterflies. Common tigers are also referred to as the striped tiger butterfly in local areas. These butterflies are endemic to South Asian countries except New Guinea. This is the most common butterfly of India inhabiting a wide variety of habitats throughout the subcontinent....

Do you like learning about different species of birds? Then you should definitely give this article on the crimson chat a read. The crimson chat (Epthianura tricolor) is a small bird from Australia that covers a range from the west of the Great Dividing Range to the west and southern parts of Australia. Apart from the west and the southern regions, they are also found in the northern parts during winter....

If there were a list of the biggest dinosaurs around, then this would definitely rank in the list. The Daxiatitan quite literally has the name ’titan’ in it. The word titan means large, which is a nod towards the size of this creature. It is one of the largest herbivores in the history of dinosaurs, with a height and weight almost 50 times more than the average human, maybe even more....

Imagine, in the murky abyss of Australia’s deep-sea where humans rarely go, there lives a frightening creature, one of the most dangerous predators of the world. Well, they do and we call them the Bathysaurus ferox or the deepsea lizardfish (also written as the deep sea lizardfish). The deep sea lizardfish is characterized by its Cheshire Cat-shaped teeth that protrude out of its big mouth. The big head of the lizardfish, along with its teeth is labeled as a most large, terrifying predator of the ocean environment....

There are various species breathing on the planet. While lungs and nose are considered the main respiratory organs, there are thick-bodied salamanders that breathe through their skin. An eastern tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, is a mole salamander that breathes through its skin.The eastern tiger salamanders have varied colors and patterns throughout their body. Their expansive range varies from yellow to olive green colored skin with stripes or splotches. They are the largest salamanders recorded in North America....

The orb-weaver of the Araneidae family, the Larinioides cornutus, commonly known as the Cornutus furrow, is a species of spiders with its habitat mainly in North America. This spider is also known as a furrow orb spider and a foliate spider.These arthropods build their web in the porches of urban houses and moist places like under the roof and near your bathroom pipes. They build their web close to the ground, and every night, they consume their web and a new web is built in the evening the next day....

Helladotherium was a species of giraffid that lived during the Miocene age. They could have been observed in parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and upon the discovery of fossils, paleontologists have only been able to create an almost complete skeleton of a female Helladotherium.Read on to know more about Helladotherium. Fun Helladotherium Facts For Kids What did they prey on? Unknown What did they eat? Herbivore Average litter size? Unknown...

The Lukousaurus dinosaur inhabited Asia. This dinosaur’s range was primarily found in thick forests and around water bodies. These dinosaurs’ remains were mostly found in Yunnan in China. The Lukousaurus was 6.6 ft (2 m) in length and 3.5 ft (1.1 m) in height, and based on this information, this species is almost nine times smaller than the average Huaxiaosaurus aigahtens. These dinosaurs are known to be quite aggressive in nature....

The Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) from the order Rodentia is a tiny burrowing animal found in the Mongolian highlands. Their range also includes parts of northern China and southern Siberia in Asia. Mongolian gerbils, also called Mongolian jirds, are found in mountain valleys, sandy deserts, grasslands, semi-arid scrublands, and steppes.There are more than 100 species in the gerbils and jird group of rodents in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, and India....

Do you like bumblebees, like the tree bumblebee? Then here we have all the information on the red-tailed bumblebee. The red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) is a species of bumblebee that can be found quite commonly in Central Europe. This species prefers to live in an open habitat range, like meadows, gardens, pastures, grasslands, and more. These bumblebees can be distinguished easily because they have a red tail. The queens and the workers have a uniform black body with an orange-red tail....

Skippers are the intermediate form lying between butterflies and moths. The species belongs to the phylum Arthropoda in the animal kingdom. The skipper butterfly is from the family Hesperiidae and order Lepidoptera. The species belong to the class Insecta and was previously classified within the superfamily Hesperioidea. However, the recent taxonomy places skippers as a family within the superfamily Papilionoidea. The species is called skippers for their speed and darting flight....

In the desert region of South America and Mexico, there lie some of the most deadly species known to mankind ever. Don’t be afraid, they cannot hurt you through paper, but let’s venture together into the world of neotropical rattlesnakes. Unlike the snakes of North America, the rattlesnake species are fast and deadly. The Crotalus durissus terrificus is called by many names - tropical rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, and cascavel or cascabel, as it is called in Brazil....

Let us explore one of the small-sized goby species, which are habitats of salinity distribution. These fish are found in shallow water less than 3 ft (91cm) and can reach maximum depths of 7.6 ft (2.3 m). This federally endangered species, tidewater goby Eucyclogobius newberryi, is a cute tiny bottom-dwelling fish found in estuaries of California, creeks, and big lagoon. These fish are an essential food source for many sea shorebirds, piscivorous birds, and California halibut (large-tooth flounder)....

The tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus) is a species found on the East Asian continent, native to central China and Northeastern Myanmar. It is a small deer that earned its name from the tuft of hair on its forehead. One of the defining characteristics of the tufted deer is its fang-like canines, exclusive to the males, which offer this species of deer a pre-historic appearance that is similar to the Muntjac species....

The wandering whistling duck (Dendrocygna arcuata) is a waterfowl that belongs to the genus Dendrocygna, all members of the genus whistle. Though they are known as ducks, they are not true ducks. There is always an argument between ornithologists regarding placing these ducks in a group of larger waterfowl. The wandering whistling duck has other names, such as whistling tree-duck and the red whistler. The wandering whistling duck habitat range includes flooded grasslands, deep lagoons, or dams....